People Managing People What AI Will — and Won’t — Replace in People Analytics
Nov 6, 2025
Roxanne Laczo, Head of People Analytics at Cloudflare, Cole Napper, VP at Lightcast, and Noelle London, CEO of Illoominus, dive into the evolving role of AI in people analytics. They discuss which tasks are safe from automation and which are at risk, emphasizing the importance of human context in strategic decisions. The trio also explores how AI can lighten workloads for smaller teams and the growing need for data literacy in HR to maintain relevance. Lastly, they highlight essential skills for future analytics professionals amidst an AI-driven landscape.
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Context Beats Automation
- AI can't replace stakeholder influence, institutional knowledge, or storytelling that live inside human brains.
- Roxanne Laczo says those contextual skills will remain uniquely valuable even as AI improves.
Transactional Tasks Are At Risk
- Transactional people analytics work is highly vulnerable to automation while strategic work is durable.
- Cole Napper found strategic, transformational activities will largely persist despite AI disruption.
Let AI Handle The Grind
- Use AI as a co-pilot to remove repetitive, time‑consuming tasks so teams can focus on strategy.
- Noelle London recommends offloading integrations, data cleanup, and routine reporting to AI tools.