Jocelyn King, founder and CEO of Virgil HR, joins host Tony Buffum to talk about what it takes for HR to lead in today’s tech-driven workplace. With a background as an HR practitioner, Jocelyn shares how she built a compliance automation platform to eliminate the manual headaches HR teams face daily, especially when navigating fast-changing laws across cities and states.
They explore why HR is still behind other functions in digital transformation, the barriers to adopting new tech, and how HR can become more tech literate without losing its human focus. Jocelyn highlights the importance of change management, explains how AI is changing the HR workforce, and breaks down why upskilling HR professionals is more important than ever.
If you’ve ever struggled with implementing new tools, questioned how to stay compliant without slowing down, or wondered how AI will impact the people function, this episode is for you.