Talk Talent To Me

From Cyber Warfare to Chief People Officer with Seagate's Patricia Frost

Rob sits down with Patricia Frost, EVP and Chief People and Places Officer at Seagate Technology, whose path to the C-suite ran through 32 years in the US Army, culminati

6,500 Hires in 90 Days: How Kim Virtuoso Built the Workforce Behind Las Vegas's Newest Resort

Settle in for one of the most operationally wild episodes in recent memory. Kim was employee number 11 at a resort that didn't have an offer letter template, an HR system

Where Is Tech Talent in 2026? CBRE's Scoring Tech Talent Report with Colin Yasukochi

Rob welcomes back Colin Yasukochi, Executive Director of CBRE's Tech Insight Center, to walk through CBRE's annual Scoring Tech Talent report. Covering 50 markets and mil

Building a Quality of Hire Algorithm with Zapier's Tracy St. Dic

Tracy St. Dic, Global Head of Talent at Zapier, built a quality of hire algorithm from scratch. What it yielded helped them measure their ability to get better at hiring

Inside the CHRO Role with Takkion's Marie Wardenski

Show Notes: Rob goes in-person for this one, recording live at Takkion HQ in Denver with CHRO Marie Wardenski. Takkion is a major player in clean energy with around 2,00

Insatiable Curiosity & Talent Transformation with Selena Yuan

Selena is the Executive Director and Global Head of Talent Management at Cytokinetics, and brings a global perspective shaped by her upbringing in Beijing, a career that

33,000 Applications and Counting: Navigating the AI Hiring Surge with Katie Rakusin of Merit America

Katie Rakusin, Director of Talent Acquisition at Merit America. has seen the AI hiring surge hit in real time: 33,000 applications in five months, 10,000 in May alone, an

Included Health CPO Jim O'Gorman

Jim has held senior people roles at Hulu and Quibi, but he'll tell you this job is different: the stakes are higher. The episode digs into why employer-sponsored healthca

LinkedIn's First CHRO Steve Cadigan on AI Mistakes & Opportunities

Steve Cadigan, the first CHRO of LinkedIn and one of the most candid voices in the talent space, discusses where AI is genuinely helping organizations and where it is qui

Freewheel Chief Global People Officer Quentin SaLay

Quentin shares what it actually means to future-proof a workforce, introducing his the three box framework for simultaneously maintaining the present, abandoning the past

Conviction, Crank, and Craft with Rox Talent Lead Erin Wilson

Show Notes Rob reunites with Erin Wilson, Talent Lead at Rox and a returning champion from the very first episode of Talk Talent to Me. Erin breaks down the two things

Crisp SVP People Ops Joe Bast

Rob welcomes back Joe Bast, now SVP of People Operations at Crisp, for a wide-ranging conversation that covers what it really takes to operate at the executive level, why

Re-Thinking Retention with Langan CHRO Donovan Mattole

Donovan shares how he deliberately hires business leaders into HR, why TA and retention must operate as a single strategy, and how he's making the case to Millennial and

Building a Future-Proof People Agenda with Lisa Skinner Källström

Lisa is a seasoned CHRO with over 20 years in HR to explore what it looks like to intentionally pause, reflect, and reimagine your next career chapter. Lisa shares how sh

Rachel Duran, HPE Head of Global Employer Brand & Recruiting Marketing

Rachel Duran has spent nearly 15 years building her career at the intersection of marketing and talent acquisition, moving through ad agencies, RPOs, and major tech compa

ProDriven Global Brands CHRO Kevin Bohan

Kevin breaks down how HR leaders can drive real business impact by aligning talent strategy directly to company goals, with a focus on scaling coaching as a lever for wor

Liberty Mutual VP of Early TA Maura Quinn

📝 Episode Summary Maura explains why investing in early talent remains a high-impact, data-backed strategy despite growing narratives around AI replacing entry-level role

PepsiCo VP Global TA Ilona Kremer

Episode Summary Ilona explains what it takes to transform talent acquisition at a 300,000-person organization. From consolidating a sprawling, decentralized TA function i

Atlanta Hawks Chief People D&I Officer Camye Mackey

📝 Episode Summary  Camye Mackey, EVP and Chief People, Diversity & Inclusion Officer for the Atlanta Hawks, joins Rob to talk about building culture inside one of the mos

Pearson SVP HR Ops Tim Young

📝 Episode Summary Tim shares how he built (and scrapped) a multimillion-dollar AI interview scheduling bot, why we should rethink HR's "pecking order," and lessons from t