The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Call them changemakers.
Call them rule breakers.
We call them redefiners.
Hi, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Redefiners. I hope you all had a great holiday break. I'm Marla Oates, a leadership advisor at Russell Reynolds Associates. Before we get started, just a quick reminder to all our listeners that you can find all the episodes of Redefiners and Leadership Lounge on YouTube. If you're watching on YouTube, just hit that subscribe button below so you don't miss an episode. And for our audio listeners, don't forget to rate Redefiners. We'd love to see your feedback. Today, we have a very special surprise in store for you to help us kick off season six of Redefiners. We're teaming up with our sister podcast, Leadership Lounge, to talk with a very special guest.
What insights does Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic share about talent management?
For listeners not familiar with Leadership Lounge, each episode features insights from our leadership advisors as they lift the curtain on how great leaders think, act, and lead. Joining me in this bold Redefiners adventure is my incredible colleague and dear friend Emma Coombe, host of the Leadership Lounge.
Hello Marla and hi everyone. It is great to be here with you on Redefiners. We're so happy to have you.
How fun for us both to be together today. Our guest today brings a cornucopia of leadership and talent insights collected over a very impressive career as a CEO, university professor, and executive. Along his journey, he's written 15 books and over 250 scientific papers on the psychology of talent, leadership, innovation, and AI.
That's right, Marla. Our guest is an international authority in several areas leaders spend a lot of time dealing with. People analytics, talent management, leadership development, and the human AI interface. This is someone I followed over the years through his books, media appearances, and his TED Talks. And we're thrilled to share that he recently joined Russell Reynolds Associates as our new Chief Science Officer. In this role, he'll lead our research and development and innovation initiatives and drive the firm's data strategy.
Our guest today is Tomás Chamorro-Premuzic. In addition to those books and TED Talks you mentioned, Emma, Tomás' work focuses on the creation of science-based tools that improve organizations' ability to predict performance and help people understand themselves better. Before joining us, Tomas was chief innovation officer at Manpower Group and co-founder of Deeper Signals and MyTruty. He was also the CEO of Hogan Assessment Systems, which we use here at the firm. It's our proprietary leadership span model. Outside of his corporate leadership roles, Tomas is a professor of business psychology at University College London and Columbia University. Tomas, we are so thrilled to have you here today. Welcome to Redefiner's.
Thank you. Thank you. It's great to see you. And so good to be here. Let me start by saying that I've been listening to both of you for a while. So it's sort of like being starstruck and also, you know, nice. And I have butterflies in my stomach for being here with you. It's great to be here.
We're also so happy and we have so many questions for you. Before we get into the thick of things, we wanted to give you a chance to introduce yourself to our listeners. So why don't you take a few minutes, if that's okay, to share a bit about your background, where you're from, career highlights, anything you'd like to share to help our listeners get to know you a bit better.
yes so i am born and raised in argentina buenos aires and i spent exactly half of my life there before leaving for the uk for one year to kind of start my second career stint so i went to london for one year and ended up staying 15, became an academic in the first part of my career, started as an organizational psychologist at university, but always really cared about the applied side of things, then moved into consulting, started businesses, some point moved to the US where I started running R&D and innovation for Hogan Assessments, then became CEO there.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:53
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What insights does Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic share about talent management?
0:53–12:44
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How can leaders use negative thinking as a positive force?
12:44–29:48
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What strategies can new leaders implement to gain competence and confidence?
29:48–33:02
Speakers
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