HR Tech 2025

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. AI hype is loud, messy, and often misguided. Jess Von Bank and Jason Averbook cut through the noise and get right...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. In this episode we talk about HR tech, PEOs, SMBs, AI in hiring, and why owning your own product roadmap matters....

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. Hiring has never been louder, faster, or more chaotic. Daniel Chait breaks down why great hiring still comes down...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. AI gets loud, fast, and overpromised. This conversation cuts through the noise. When the entire talent lifecycle s...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. ⁠Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series⁠ and ⁠visit ⁠⁠HRExecutive.com⁠⁠ for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. We sit down with VONQ CEO Ritu Mohanka at HR Tech to unpack what really changed at the top of the funnel. R...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. Hiring teams are burnt out, candidates are overwhelmed, and tech is changing faster than anyone can keep up. Desir...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. Large enterprises are dragging legacy systems, legal risk, and AI anxiety into every talent conversation, while th...

People analytics hit its peak in 2022. Then the bottom dropped out. Roles disappeared. Teams shrank. And everyone started asking the same question: did people analytics miss its moment? Cole Napper doesn’t think so. He argues the opposite. The field isn’t dying. It’s shifting. The future is AI transformation, workforce modeling, and organizational change at scale. And the people who’ve lived insid...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. AI promises magic, but data is still the fuel and most teams are running on fumes. Ike Benion breaks down why TA k...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. HR leaders are staring at louder demands, faster change, and more legal landmines than ever. Jocelyn King breaks d...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. ⁠Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series⁠ and ⁠visit ⁠⁠HRExecutive.com⁠⁠ for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. Recruiting is moving faster than most teams can keep up with. AI isn’t a side feature anymore. It’s the eng...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. ⁠Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series⁠ and ⁠visit ⁠⁠HRExecutive.com⁠⁠ for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. HR teams are still dragging around the habits they built on old systems. Too much comfort. Too much duct ta...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. ⁠Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series⁠ and ⁠visit ⁠⁠HRExecutive.com⁠⁠ for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. Most companies swear they care about people, but the tools they use to understand those people are stuck in...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. ⁠Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series⁠ and ⁠visit ⁠⁠HRExecutive.com⁠⁠ for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. In this episode we talk about the real pressure behind executive hiring. Tech can speed things up, sure, bu...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. ⁠Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series⁠ and ⁠visit ⁠⁠HRExecutive.com⁠⁠ for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. In this episode we talk about job market friction, hiring bias, AI-driven matching, candidate experience, t...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. AI bias isn’t hypothetical anymore. Companies are walking into real lawsuits, and the jump from theoretical risk t...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. Audience feedback is never just feedback. The words people choose, the humor they drop in, even the curse words th...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. AI is moving faster than most hiring systems can handle. Governance used to mean a once-a-year audit, but models s...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. Most companies talk a big game about employee experience, but the moment someone takes leave, everything breaks. L...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. Most companies still obsess over sourcing, funnels, and time-to-fill, then go quiet the moment someone starts Day...

Recruiters love to talk about “seat at the table,” but very few are operating like a true business function. In this conversation, Brandon Jeffs sits down with Findem’s David Malloy to unpack how AI, 3D data, and sharper metrics are reshaping the recruiter’s job into a sales and strategy role. They dig into time to slate, mis-hire costs, employer markets, and why most recruiters still hide behind...

In this episode we talk about unlearning, AI at work, applied behavioral analysis, psychological safety, and why “we’ve always done it this way” is wrecking progress in HR. Duane, Crystal, and Jenny unpack how people cling to broken processes, why unlearning is different from abandoning, and how AI can actually augment work if people know where they need help and feel safe enough to ask for it. Ke...

This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work. We break down the interview questions that make candidates run for the exits. Everything from “Do you actually nee...

Compliance still sounds like punishment, but it doesn’t have to feel that way in 2025. In this conversation, we sit down with Jeff Carr, president of Atana, to talk about why “required training” has to grow up. He walks through his journey from PeopleSoft, Taleo, and Saba to Atana’s model of compliance, learning, and behavioral data that lets companies see risk early, act surgically, and actually...

HR Tech 2025 is crawling with EWA vendors, AI logos, and “pioneer” claims, but payroll people are still the ones carrying the real weight. In this live session, the Payroll Baddies crew talk about the explosion of earned wage access, what’s missing on the financial wellness side, how fast any vendor can bolt AI into a product, and why ethics, longevity, and governance matter way more than booth de...