Empathetic Excellence: Why Competence, Merit, and Empathy Are the Only Formula For Keeping Your Best People
April 22, 2026: What does it actually take to build an organization where people perform at their best? In this episode, I'm breaking down what I call Empathetic Excellence — and it comes down to thre...
22 Apr 42min
BlackRock Rebuilds Work Around AI Squads, Meta Tracks Employee Keystrokes, Amazon Bets $33B on Anthropic
April 21, 2026: Amazon commits $33 billion total to Anthropic in a landmark deal securing 5 gigawatts of compute — the equivalent of five nuclear power plants — while Anthropic's revenue triples from ...
21 Apr 28min
How To Build A Massive AI Literate Workforce & Prepare For The Future of Work - Lisa Coulson, CHRO, Principal Financial Group
Technology is moving faster than ever, and many of us feel the pressure to keep up without losing our human touch. We need a clear path to help our teams embrace change while building a culture of tru...
20 Apr 46min
The Era of Employee Leverage Is Over And That Might Be a Good Thing
April 17, 2026: Employer power has officially returned and workers are accepting things they never would have a year ago — but is that actually a bad thing? Then, teen boys are dating their AI chatbot...
17 Apr 24min
80 Percent of Workers Are Ignoring Your AI Tools and Claude Opus 4.7 Is Out
April 16, 2026: Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 this morning — a significant upgrade focused on complex coding and self-verification that changes what human oversight of AI actually needs to look l...
16 Apr 40min
A Shoe Company Just Became an AI Firm And OpenAI's Cybersecurity Move Should Wake Up Every Leader
April 15, 2027: A failed sneaker brand rebrands as an AI compute company and its stock jumps 600% in a day — and that tells us something important about the race for AI infrastructure. Then, OpenAI re...
15 Apr 19min
Mark Zuckerberg Is Building a Digital Clone of Himself for His Employees
April 14, 2026: The Stanford AI Index shows generative AI has hit 53% global adoption — faster than any technology in history — but also reveals a 50-point gap between expert optimism and public fear ...
14 Apr 54min
Maintaining "Humanness" in a Technology & AI Driven Workplace - w/ Ally Financial CHRO Kathie Patterson
Companies today are rushing to build an AI strategy, but they often forget to create a human strategy to match it. As technology takes over daily tasks, keeping the human element alive at work is a hu...
13 Apr 47min
