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Episodes
Delivering a Skills Marketplace: Deutsche Post DHL's Meredith Wellard
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Something’s happened to this week’s guest, Meredith Wellard. And it’s actually something quite wonderful; you can hear it in her voice, animatin...
Precision Development At Scale: Deloitte's Eric Dingler
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Deloitte is different. It’s different for, of course, its unique approach to solving customer problems, as well as its sheer size and scale. But in ...
Designing A Future That Loves Us All: AstraZeneka's Manisha Singh
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Manisha Singh is a leading voice in everything from HR technology to people analytics, AI ethics to doing practical work on the future of work. And as...
Building Planes with Cake Decorators: Boeing's Guillermo Miranda
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We came off this recording session thinking, Have we just literally seen the future of work? A world where how Skills has become the core to everythin...
Paying for Skills and Much More with "Trustworthy AI," IBM's Anshul Sheopuri
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, it’s all about numbers, scale, and achievement. In terms of numbers, how about a Skills-based, AI-enhanced framework that is keeping 250,...
How Do You Build Things That Are Reversible? Sun Life's Robert Carlyle
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“We really just almost assume that, self-evidently, Skills matter--and then went to try to build a Skills library. It is only then that we start to ...
The Skills Odyssey II: Opening Arguments
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well… we’re still not home. The fabled Ithaca of Skills nirvana is still somewhere in the distance. This journey we’re on—this Skills Odyssey—...
A Peek Inside a Skills Transformation: Novartis's Tim Dickinson
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people we talk to are hesitant about starting their Skills Odyssey. They’ve got a good reason: they feel there’s just too much ocean out ...
The Soup Cube Skills Methodology: ABN AMRO’s Patrick Coolen
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“How you are able, as an organization, to reconfigure resources like Skills and have the ability to allocate the right talents in your organization ...
Building the Skills Plane While Flying: Citi's Christopher Funk
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Setting up this week’s conversation, Dani promises that this one’s a “must-listen for anyone who's trying to figure out how to make Skills work ...
Exploring the build vs buy conundrum: Fidelity's Mike Groesser
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest, Mike Groesser, is not just a VP at his employer, Fidelity Investments. He’s also something called a Learning Squad Leader—termino...
Using Skills to Create a Learning Culture: Ericsson's Vidya Krishnan
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In L&D, we talk a lot about creating the conditions for learning: isn’t that kind of definitional about what we do? Well, maybe we need to tear up t...
Bringing Skills to life in the workplace: People Data Enthusiast Heather Whiteman
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is today’s guest the epitome of a people analytics scholar practitioner? Well, let’s do the math: relevant PhD? Check. Six years figuring out how ...
The Skills Odyssey: Opening Arguments
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For ten tough years, the king of Ithaca tried to find his way back home from the war--and along the way, he had quite a few obstacles to face down. Th...
Data AND Stories: Workday’s Phil Willburn
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Honestly, in order to make this a reality I believe HR needs more technologists and analytics professionals as a whole.” Now you might expect a R...
What Belonging really needs to take hold: Airbnb’s Kate Shaw
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it feel like when your identity is all about promoting Belonging and a global pandemic comes along that for a time completely wipes out your ...
Collaboration and DEIB — What Should Change? Babson College's Rob Cross
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if the ways you’re trying to measure the ground-level impact of all your DEIB work in your workplace environment are incomplete? That’s the p...
Creating light, not heat: JPMorgan Chase's Jesse Jackson
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes you feel you’re in the eye of the hurricane: so much is happening in terms of our wider society in terms of changing expectations, changin...
Creating space for courageous conversations: S&P Global's Rachel Fichter
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are there three sets of people in Inclusion: the folks doing the ground-level work on DEIB, maybe the researchers way off in the academic stratosphere...
Use both the data AND the story: PTC's Hallie Bregman
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We love data, and we think it needs to be at the heart of all HR, especially in DEIB. But like this week’s guest, global talent strategy and analyti...
Integrating Inclusion: Opening Arguments
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are we kidding ourselves when it comes to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)? There’s been a LOT of talk about it, after all: is it b...
What a Mindset of Enablement Actually Looks Like: Microsoft’s Karen Kocher
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What actually happens when your boss tells you one day he’d like you to teach a few people new digital skills… say, 25 million or so? You’re goi...
Why skills inventory is a nut worth cracking: former McDonald’s CLO Rob Lauber
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Truism 1: McDonald’s employs a lot of people. Truism 2: it doesn’t care that much about those people, so long as they flip the burgers OK, right? ...
A 'Third Age' of Human Capital Management: Workday's Greg Pryor
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I think we have to help organizations get out of the way and let people unleash and unlock their capabilities in ways that does not require the org...
Why L&D Needs to Lose The ‘Men In Black’ Mindset: British Red Cross's Satnam Sagoo
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For some reason, we don’t listen enough to what our peers in the non-profit world can tell us about skills. But when a practitioner there says somet...
Learning The Many Languages of Skills: Mars's Nuno Gonçalves
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I think that in the future, what will be really necessary in terms of skills are people that talk different languages of skills… talking differen...
The Realities of Building a Tech-Enabled Skills Framework: Sygenta's Madhura Chakrabarti
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Madhura Chakrabarti is one of our favorite HR thinkers and doers, so we jumped at the chance to hear of the genuinely pioneering work she’s doing...
The Price of Skills Debt: Guild Education's Matthew Daniel
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“When software releases went from Microsoft releasing once every other year to releasing 16 times a week, you know, like all that started to happen;...
Designing the Skills Future: the d.school's Lisa Kay Solomon
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“What I introduce [my students] to are the kinds of skills that allow them to navigate ambiguity.” If that seems like urgently-needed capability y...
The Skills Obsession: Opening Arguments
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode sets the tone for this season, with podcast hosts Stacia Garr, Dani Johnson, and Chris Pirie discussing why skills are so important now, ...