Digital HR Leaders with David Green

Shlomit Gruman-Navot is Chief People Officer at OLX Group, one of the largest and fastest-growing global trading platforms. With over 20 years of building organisational strength for global organisations, in this podcast, Shlomit will be providing her invaluable insight into successfully leading hybrid teams during challenging and unprecedented times.   Redefining the term VUCA as Vision...

Ian Cook is VP of People Analytics Solutions at Visier. He’s a man with a real passion for the people side of business and the subtle arts of bringing the right people together for optimum results. He’s spent the last 15 years evangelising about how data can turn that art into science. In this episode, Ian has insights, and plenty of case studies, on how best to approach data and real-life humans...

It’s a Digital HR Leaders Podcast first this week, with a live episode recorded in April at People Analytics World 2022. David’s joined by two illuminating guests – Jordan Pettman and Tertia Wiedenhof – for a special discussion recorded onstage at the Royal College of Physicians in London.    Jordan is Head of Organisation Analytics and Insight at London Stock Exchange Group, and Tertia...

Whitney Johnson is CEO at Disruption Advisors and author of “Smart Growth – How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company”. It’s full of advice about how individuals and organisations can realise their potential by charting where they are on Whitney’s reimagined version of the “S curve” model.    Whitney has insights that speak to all of us, regardless of where we are on our professional...

On the show today, I am talking to RJ Milnor, Head of People Analytics at Uber, about the work he and his team have been doing around employee listening, hybrid working and productivity. Throughout our conversation, RJ, talks about the journey that Uber embarked on to use people analytics to better understand employee sentiment, during the pandemic, and how that work has shaped Uber's approach to...

On the show today, I am talking to Peter Cappelli, the George W. Taylor Professor of Management and the Professor of Education and Director for The Centre for HR, at The Wharton School. Throughout the conversation Peter shares his extensive knowledge and research on the world of work, HR, and leadership and we cover a number of different topics that Peter, has unique insights on. These include: Th...

On the show today, I am talking to Abdul Hummaida, Chief Technology Officer at orgvue. Throughout our conversation, Abdul shares his perspective on the evolution of org design and workforce planning and the shift that companies are making, to more frequent and regular planning cycles. We also discuss: The importance of having access to real-time data that can support planning decisions and enable...

On the show today, I am talking to Lisa Chang, Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at the Coca-Cola Company. Throughout our conversation Lisa shares her perspective on how HR is evolving as a function, based on her experiences throughout a nearly 30 year career in HR and her current role as a Chief People Officer, for employees across more than 200 countries worldwide. We also discuss:...

On the show today, I am talking to Ethan Burris, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Management at The University of Texas at Austin, where we will discuss Ethan’s fascinating work on employee voice. Throughout our conversation Ethan and I discuss the organisational dynamics surrounding employee voice and leadership. In particular, we discuss: What employees need to conside...

On the show today, I am talking to Isabelle Chappuis and Gabriele Rizzo, the authors of a fascinating new book called "HR Futures 2030. A Design For Future Ready Human Resources". Throughout our conversation, Isabelle and Gabriele run through their 10 traits for the future of work in HR and cover some of the key disciplines that HR leaders will need to consider to be successful in 2030 and beyond....

On this week’s episode of the podcast, I am talking to Charlie Johnston, Chief People Officer at Mambu. Throughout our conversation, Charlie shares his illuminating perspective on how HR can partner effectively with the business and the role of HR in supporting business leaders and their teams. We also discuss: The differences between running HR in a large company and a smaller startup environment...

On this week's podcast, I am talking to Loïc Michel, CEO at skills intelligence and talent marketplace platform 365Talents. Throughout this episode, Loïc and I discuss: How skills data can be used to improve employee experience and support successful talent management How advances in AI now mean that skills can be mapped in real time, overcoming some of the complexities that organisations have str...

On the show this week, I am talking to Laura Stevens, Vice President of Global Strategy, Analytics and Employee Experience at DSM. Throughout this episode, Laura and I discuss: How Laura is using her prior experience as a people analytics consultant, to influence her strategy for the people analytics function at DSM The synergies and opportunities that can be leveraged between employee experience...

On the show this week, I am talking to Jason Averbook, CEO and Co-Founder at Leapgen, one of the leading global authorities on HR technology and employee experience. Throughout this episode, Jason and I discuss: His thoughts on how companies should approach employee experience and why that involves a whole person approach with human experience as the focus. Why it is so important to understand an...

This week, we have got two guests on the show: Ravin Jesuthasan, Senior Partner at Mercer and John Boudreau, Professor Emeritus of Management and Organisation at the University of Southern California, The Marshall School of Business, who are releasing a new book, their fourth together, called Work Without Jobs In this episode we will explore, with John and Ravin, what they are calling a new work o...

This week’s podcast guest is Placid Jover, VP of HR for Latin America at Unilever. Throughout the episode, Placid and I discuss: His perspective on how the people analytics field has evolved over the last decade How Unilever is tackling inclusivity, in particular when it comes to age and changing workforce demographics The new innovative model that Unilever has launched called, U-Work, that helps...

This week’s podcast guest is Hani Nabeel, Chief Behavioural Scientist at iPsychTech, who discusses how behaviours are the leading indicator of culture, and why he thinks it is time to stop relying on measuring the outcomes of culture, like engagement, during a culture transformation. Throughout the episode, Hani and I discuss: The use of neural thinking, neural technology, and predictive analytics...

This week’s podcast guest is Nigel Guenole, Director of Research and Ethics at the Institute of Management at Goldsmiths, University of London and a former colleague from our respective time at IBM. Throughout the episode Nigel and I discuss: How the field of organisational behaviour has evolved over the last few years 
What the value of the field is to the enterprise and what some of the new oppo...

This week’s podcast guest is Dr. Nancy Doyle, Chief Research Officer at Genius Within and Co-Director at the Centre for Neurodiversity at Work. In our conversation, Nancy and I discuss: That 15 to 20% of the population are neurodiverse, 
so we are all managing neurodivergent people in our organisations, whether we realise it or not How to build organisations that are inclusive to the needs of neur...

This week’s podcast guest is René Gessenich, Head of Strategic Workforce Planning at Novartis, who shares the work that he’s been doing to build a skills operating system for workforce planning at Novartis. In this episode, René and I discuss: Why having a robust skills ontology is so important How to incorporate internal and external skills data, in a single skills ontology Novartis's approach to...

This week’s podcast guest is Charles Jennings, Partner at the 70:20:10 Institute. Charles is a big believer in getting the learning context right by better embedding learning into work, often called informal learning, experiential learning, or real learning. While the 70:20:10 model was designed to promote this approach, many organisations adopting the model are still falling short of the mark. Ch...

This week’s podcast guest is Melissa Arronte, Employee Experience Practice Lead at Medallia. Melissa started her career in people analytics before the term really even existed and her career has taken her on a fascinating journey where she has become a bonafide expert in employee surveys and continuous listening, two topics that we cover extensively throughout this episode. Throughout this episode...

This week’s podcast guest is Steve Scott, Managing Director and Global Head of Workforce Management and Analytics at Standard Chartered Bank, talking about the critical importance of developing a data-driven culture in HR, in order for people analytics to deliver sustainable value to the business. Throughout this episode, Steve and I talk about: How the field of people analytics is evolving Buildi...

This week’s podcast guest is Thimon De Jong, a social psychologist specialising in the future of human behaviour and the Founder at Whetston. Throughout this episode Thimon and I talk a lot about the psychological impacts of the pandemic on the workforce and discuss the following topics: How organisations and employees confront change during a crisis and taking an experimental approach to hybrid w...

This week’s podcast is a special bonus episode where David shares his thoughts on the trends and predictions for HR in 2022. 2021 exposed a growing chasm between employers, who yearn for a return to significant in person based working, and employees, who don’t. This only magnifies the importance of the field of human resources. The pandemic has not only accelerated the future of work, it has accel...