Today’s guest is the founder and CEO of Pegasystems and a Chess Master. Join us as we talk about how the game of chess relates to business, what it’s like to work at Pega, the skills gap, Silicon Valley and much more.
Today’s guest is Arun Chidambaram, Pfizer’s Global Head of Talent Analytics. Our conversation is all about People Analytics: the current state, how HR and PA work together, what data they look at, what the PA team at Pfizer looks like, the 5 stages they use, and much more.
Join me today as I speak with Mike McDerment, Founder and CEO of Freshbooks. Our conversation centers around what Mike and his team have done to create a thriving corporate culture at Freshbook and how the company went from a few members working out of Mike’s parents’ basement to employing over 300 people and serving around 10 million customers.
Today’s guest is Mary Czerwinski the Research Manager at the Visualization and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft. Artificial emotion intelligence really is a fascinating field and has a lot of implications and applications in the world of AI and smart assistants. Today we get to hear all about this emerging area along with real life examples of how it is being used. Mary and I also explore virtual and augmented reality, big data, and potential challenges and concerns for the future of artificial emotion intelligence.
This week’s episode features Gordon Wright, Senior VP and Global WorkPlace Practice Director at HOK, one of the leading Architecture/Engineering/Design companies. We are talking about how AI and VR are playing a role in office design, the impact companies can have on a community, smart buildings and much more.
Whether you are in the camp of people who are excited and optimistic about AI and automation or the camp of people who are concerned and even slightly scared of what will happen to human jobs in the future, this topic always leads to a fascinating discussion and it is exactly what I will be talking about today with Martin Ford, NY Times Bestselling author and leading futurist.
Today’s guest is Paul Oyer, Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of Stanford’s new Big Data program. If you think AI and automation is the biggest threat to jobs, think again. As you will hear in today’s episode, there are a few other big disruptions coming and they are further up on Paul’s list of things to worry about than job loss from AI. We also discuss the gig economy, shifting demographic trends in the workplace and big data. […]
This week I am talking with Cindy Parnell, the Executive Director at Arizona State University Career and Professional Development Services. We all know that education is vital to the future of work, and while some academic institutions are stuck in the past, there are some, like ASU, who are thinking ahead and preparing their students in innovative ways. Today we are talking about what ASU is doing to prep students, the ROI of universities, virtual internships and much more. […]
Today’s guest is Natalie McCullough, General Manager of MyAnalytics and Workplace Analytics at Microsoft. Natalie and I are talking about a very popular topic and one that I have explored quite a bit on this podcast, data! But why it is so important for the future of work, how can data shed light on important issues such as diversity and inclusion, and how can workplace analytics be used to change culture? These are just some of the many topics we explore. […]
In today’s episode I’m talking with Morten Hansen, Management Professor at the University of California Berkeley and author of a new book called, Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better and Achieve More. We are looking at how to master your own work, why companies around the world aren’t changing as fast as they should be, the importance of matching passion with purpose and much more. […]
