Episode 279: What Neuroscience Reveals About Making Change Stick (with Travis Hahler)

What if the resistance you're seeing from your team isn't opposition at all?

David Green is joined by Travis Hahler, who leads global strategy and transformation at Salesforce and is also the founder of Neurological Nomad, where he applies neuroscience and neuropsychology to how leaders manage change. Travis is the author of the new book Rethink Resistance, and his central argument reframes almost everything: resistance isn't personal, it's protective.

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Episode 278: From HR Silos to One Connected People System (with Tony Truong)

Is your HR function organised the way employees actually experience it, or just the way it's always been done?

In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Tony Truong, VP of People Strategy, Operations, Technology and Analytics at Chime, to unpack why most HR functions are still organised in silos, by specialty, while employees experience work as a series of moments: getting hired, being onboarded, going for a promotion. Tony has spent the last two years closing that gap, rebuilding Chime's people function from the ground up as the company has scaled into a public company.

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Bonus Episode: What the Research Really Tells Us About Purpose at Work (With Jessica Zwaan)

Is purpose at work as straightforward as we've made it out to be? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Jessica Zwaan, VP People Strategy and Operations at Leapsome and author of Built for People and Purpose and Work, to explore what the research actually tells us about purpose at work — and what that means for how HR shows up for people.

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Episode 275: How GSK Built a Skills-Based Organisation in 18 Months (with Zaka Farhat)

How do you rebuild a company's entire capability infrastructure — and fund the transformation through the savings it generates? Zaka Farhat is Global SVP for Talent, Learning, Organisation and Capability Development at GSK, where she leads the company's enterprise-wide skills, learning and capability agenda. In this episode, Zaka shares the full story of how GSK rebuilt its capability infrastructure in 18 months - retiring more than 20 legacy systems, building a single skills and learning ecosystem, and funding the transformation through the savings it generated.

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Episode 274: Work Intelligence Playbook for CHROs in the AI Era (with Mikaël Wornoo)

How do the world's most forward-thinking organisations use skills intelligence, market intelligence and work intelligence together to stay ahead? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Mik Wornoo, co-founder and President of US at TechWolf, to explore how organisations are using three signals together to build a strategic workforce planning strategy that can keep pace with AI,  and what that looks like in practice.

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Episode 273: Inside Lloyds Banking Group’s People Transformation (with Sharon Doherty)

What does it take to turn a 300-year-old bank into the UK's biggest fintech? Sharon Doherty is Chief People and Places Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, and over the last four years she's been leading one of the most ambitious organisational transformations in British financial services - 300-year-old institution reinventing itself as the UK's biggest fintech. David and Sharon get into what transformation at that scale actually looks like from the inside -  the governance, the culture work, the AI strategy, and the tough calls that only leadership can make.

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Episode 272: Why Meetings Are a System Design Problem (with Rebecca Hinds)

Are your meetings actually working? Or has your calendar just become a system nobody knows how to switch off? David Green is joined by Rebecca Hinds, Stanford-trained organisational researcher, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, and author of Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done ; to discuss why organisations should treat meetings as a product, and what that actually means in practice.

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Episode 271: The Case for a Four-Day Week: What the Research Shows (with Joe O'Connor and Jared Lindzon)

Most organisations are asking how to get more from their people. But what if the real question is how to get more from the time they spend at work? In this episode, David Green is joined by Joe O'Connor, founder of Work Time Revolution, and Jared Lindzon, future-of-work journalist and author, to explore the research-backed case for the four-day working week, and what it means for how HR leaders design, lead and transform work.

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Bonus Episode: The Hidden Economic Value of Employee Experience (with Katarina Coppé and Jake Mealy)

What’s the value of employee experience if you can’t tie it to business performance results? In this special bonus episode, host David Green is joined Katarina Coppé and Jake Mealy, respectively Senior Partner and Chief Data Solutions Officer at Welliba. Drawing on new research analysing over 25 million data points across the S&P 500, they unpack the direct link between employee experience and financial performance, showing why companies with stronger employee sentiment consistently outperform the market.

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Episode 270: Leading People Analytics Through Business Transformation (with Mattijs Mol)

When your business is transforming, how do you make sure your people strategy is part of leading that change? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Mattijs Mol, VP of HR Technology, Strategy and Insights at Wärtsilä, to explore what it really takes to run a people analytics function inside a business undergoing fundamental change.

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Episode 269: A Smarter Framework for Human Centered Decisions in HR (with Kate O’Neill)

AI, layoffs, reskilling - everyone’s reacting to the same headlines. The question is: are they making the right decisions because of them? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Kate O’Neill, Tech Humanist, keynote speaker, and author of What Matters Next, to explore how leaders can make more deliberate, context-aware decisions in a landscape shaped by constant change.

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Episode 268: The CHRO Framework for AI: Culture Determines AI Outcomes Not Spend (with Paul Rubenstein)

What if HR is still thinking too small about AI? David Green is joined by Paul, Chief Evangelist and Talent Strategist at Visier, to explore why traditional transformation approaches may no longer be fit for purpose, and what HR needs to do differently to keep pace. Tune into this podcast as they tackle some of the biggest questions facing the function today.

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Episode 267: Beyond Insight: People Analytics as Work Orchestration (with Jamie Nevshehir)

What does the next evolution of people analytics actually look like? As AI reshapes how organisations operate, people analytics is increasingly being drawn into more consultative, business-facing work - helping leaders think through decisions, guide adoption, and play a more active role in how work actually gets done. In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Jamie Nevshehir, VP of HR Operations and People Analytics at NBCUniversal, to explore what that looks like in practice.

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Episode 266: From CHRO to Chief Work Officer: The Next Evolution of HR Leadership (with Phil Kirshner)

Are organisations overlooking one of the most important drivers of employee experience and performance? For many, the workplace is still treated as a fixed asset - something to manage for cost and capacity, rather than something to actively design around how work actually happens. In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Phil Kirschner, Workforce Experience Consultant and author of the famous newsletter, The Workline,  to explore why workplace strategy continues to sit outside of core HR and people analytics conversations - and why that needs to change.

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Bonus Episode: Rethinking L&D for an AI-Driven World (with Chris Eigeland)

Are we at a point where traditional workplace learning no longer works? Organisations have long invested in platforms and programmes, yet much still feels disconnected from how people actually learn today—especially with AI enabling instant skill-building. So what does effective learning look like now, and how can organisations build an AI-ready workforce? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green speaks with Chris Eigeland, CEO of Go1, on how workplace learning must evolve.

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Episode 265: Work Redesign in the Age of AI: What HR Leaders Must Know (with Hebba Youssef)

If parts of a role can be automated or augmented overnight, what does that mean for job design, career development, and the way organisations build the next generation of talent? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Hebba Youssef, Chief People Officer at Workweek and the Founder and creator of the widely followed newsletter I Hate It Here. Drawing on her experience building and leading HR teams, Hebba shares how she is approaching AI adoption inside her own organisation and what the rise of AI-powered teams means for the future of work. 

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Episode 264: AI, Loneliness and the Future of Connection at Work (with Connie Noonan Hadley)

Are we overlooking one of the biggest human consequences of AI at work? As organisations race to adopt AI, much of the conversation has focused on productivity, efficiency, and redesigning work. But far less attention has been given to how these technologies may reshape something just as important: the relationships people rely on at work. To unpack this, in this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green speaks with Connie Noonan Hadley, organisational psychologist, Thinkers50 Radar thinker, and Research Associate Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.

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