The Workspan Podcast

Lloyd Fassett, one of the staffing industry’s most innovative entrepreneurs and thinkers, ranges from Julius Caesar’s recruiting techniques, to a 1937 hiring study of railroads, to the Who. He discusses the unmet promise of the Internet and creative ways of finding patterns in data to match people to jobs and jobs to people.

Steve Pemberton, Chief Human Resources Officer of Workhuman, on his amazing personal journey, what makes work human, diversity and inclusion, and his takeaways from his brief but inspiring run for Senate against a multi-term incumbent and a Kennedy (!).

Boyd Davis joins us for a lively conversation in which he demystifies artificial intelligence (more a “way of thinking” than a technology), and discusses how it can be applied to compensation specifically, HR more broadly, and why AI is a skill for everyone, not just data scientists.

Once a partner at the infamous firm portrayed in “Wolf of Wall Street,” Richard Bronson joins us for a brutally frank conversation about his life before and after his two-year prison term for securities violations, and how he came to found two enterprises serving people with criminal records: 70 Million Jobs (an employment platform) and the Commissary club (a social networking platform). One of the more interesting and complex people we’ve had on the pod.

Dr. Mary Marzec, Sr. Scientist with Virgin Pulse, on implementing, assessing, and measuring workplace culture and improving employee health. Also: can workplace culture lead to a culture of conformity?

Cheryl Brown Merriwether, VP, Executive Director, International Center for Addiction & Recovery Education (ICARE) joins us to discuss a number of “thorny” workplace issues – random drug testing, the impact of marijuana legalization, addiction as a D&I issue, and more. Plus, a bonus HR joke: a rabbi, a priest, and an HR administrator walk into a bar…

The serial entrepreneur's serial entrepreneur Peter Pezaris, CEO of CodeStream, a collaboration platform for coders, discusses what it takes to lead and build a vibrant company, and his good fortune in being joined at every stop along the way by his best coding buds from college.

Chris Moodhe, WorldatWork’s Director of Research and Insights, discusses two of his recent research projects that have gotten quite a lot of attention – on COVID and its impact on the workforce, and on People Analytics. Inspired by Chris, we also discuss creative job titles.

Our guest is Arthur Woods, co-founder of Mathison, a leader in technology for diversity recruiting and equitable hiring. We discuss everything from D&I as a recruiting tool to a “learning alternative” to cancel culture. A fascinating conversation you won’t want to miss!

Dr. Carol Vallone Mitchell is, without question, the most versatile guest we’ve had on this podcast. She’s a former molecular biologist, cofounder of the leadership development consulting firm Talent Strategy Partners, and author of the new business book, Collaboration Code: How Men Lead Culture Change and Nurture Tomorrow’s Leaders.