
The Gartner Talent Angle
The Gartner Talent Angle podcast is a new and exciting approach to talent management. Every month, we’ll talk with those on the forefront of HR innovation — innovators, academics, HR professionals, economists, coaches — to explore the most interesting and cutting edge ideas in the world of HR and people development. Join us as we reimagine talent.
Latest episodes

Nov 9, 2018 • 53min
Building a Growth IQ with Tiffani Bova
Growing your business is harder to accomplish than ever before. Repeatable, reliable growth depends on your capacity for making the right choices in the right sequence in the right context. Tiffani Bova joins the Talent Angle podcast to discuss how successful companies achieved growth by choosing their right paths.

Oct 30, 2018 • 22min
SPOTLIGHT: Self-awareness, Self-Delusion & Empathy with Dr. Tasha Eurich
*This interview was excerpted from our one-hour interview with Tasha in 2017. “A sprawling exploration of the psychic frailty that leads to self-delusion and self-aggrandizement, and—importantly—a compassionate, helpful guide for avoiding that path (or reversing it).” - Fortune Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author. She’s built a reputation as a fresh, modern voice in the business world by pairing her scientific grounding in human behavior with a pragmatic approach to solving problems. Her second book, INSIGHT, delves into the connection between our self-awareness—what she calls the meta-skill of the twenty-first century—and our performance and success, both in and out of the workplace. Tasha’s first book, Bankable Leadership, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in 2013, and has since become a popular resource for managers and executives who don’t want to choose between making their employees happy and producing bottom-line results for their business.

Oct 22, 2018 • 56min
How to Manage Aggressive People with Dr. Shawn T. Smith
Aggressive people can lay a dark cloud of negative energy over any workplace, from the manufacturing line to the boardroom. Listen to this podcast to hear Shawn Smith--a clinical psychologist and the author of Surviving Aggressive People--share time-tested methods for conflict management historically reserved for law enforcement, psychologists, and other professionals working the frontlines of emotionally charged situations.

Oct 18, 2018 • 22min
SPOTLIGHT:How Emotional Agility Drives Corporate Agility with Susan David, Ph.D.
* This interview was excerpted from our one hour interview with Susan in season 1. Do emotions belong in organizations? In a cultural dialogue focused on happiness and productivity, Dr. Susan David looks at the reality of avoiding emotions in our every day life, and how people who engage in high levels of fake emotions have lower engagement, higher burnout, and lower levels of effectiveness. An award-winning Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Dr. Susan David talks with us about her new book, Emotional Agility. We will look at how we can recognize and harness people’s emotions effectively, and how we can use our feelings as both compasses and engines to a more fulfilling life.

Oct 9, 2018 • 47min
Fueling Innovation through Inclusive Design with Kat Holmes, Google’s Director of UX Design
Inclusion can be far more than a feel-good sideline. Google’s Kat Holmes joins the Talent Angle to show how inclusion can spur innovation, catalyze creativity, and boost the bottom line even as organizations grow. Leaders must address these moments of exclusion - Mismatched interactions - to consciously design an organization where employees are empowered to develop and contribute in meaningful ways. For a deeper look into the ways inclusion fuels innovation, check out one of Kat’s articles.

Oct 2, 2018 • 56min
Creating Leadership Awareness with Dr. Bob Rosen
“Conscious is the new smart” says Dr. Bob Rosen, CEO of Healthy Companies International. The more conscious we are, the faster we adapt and the higher performing we become. Nothing is more important than understanding ourselves, our actions, and our environment. Dr. Bob Rosen joins the Talent Angle to discuss how leaders can thrive in an age of disruption and uncertainty by becoming more aware and accountable to the world around them.

Sep 25, 2018 • 24min
SPOTLIGHT: AI and Workforce Disruption with Guru Sethupathy
*This interview is excerpted from our hour long interview with Guru in 2017. Reconcile how AI, analytics, and machine learning effect humans and the future of talent with Guru Sethupathy, Head of People Analytics at a Fortune 100 company and former engagement manager at McKinsey Global Institute. Guru talks to us about the value of people analytics, and how we can overcome the siloed nature of companies to use predictive and prescriptive analytics to help the business achieve its goals. He was the former Chief Economist and Director of Product Development at Opportunity@Work, a civic enterprise based at New America. Prior to joining Opportunity@Work, Guru was an engagement manager at McKinsey, serving clients on topics related to human capital. Before McKinsey, Guru was an assistant professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University. His research agenda focused on how globalization and technology are changing labor markets, including productivity, employment, skills, wages, and inequality. Prior to becoming an economist, Guru also spent some years in the hi-tech and investment banking worlds. Guru has a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

Sep 20, 2018 • 52min
How to Hack Your Brain with Christine Comaford
Being a good leader requires understanding how your actions affect others’ motivation and mental state. Christine Comaford, entrepreneur and bestselling author of Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times, breaks down the neuroscience of effective leadership to a level that you don’t need a Ph.D. to understand.

Sep 13, 2018 • 21min
SPOTLIGHT: The Essence of Great Leadership with BCG's Roselinde Torres
*This is a 20 minute excerpt from our 2016 conversation with Roselinde Torres Roselinde Torres distills down the characteristics of leaders who are thriving, what they do differently and the preparation practices that enable people to grow to their potential. Roselinde Torres is a senior leader in the People & Organization practice at The Boston Consulting Group and has served as the first global head of BCG’s leadership topic. In addition, she has been a member of the firm’s Americas Leadership team.

Sep 5, 2018 • 54min
Bringing Inclusion to Uber with Bernard Coleman III
What is it like to work for Uber as its new head of diversity after holding the same post for Hillary Clinton’s campaign? Bernard Coleman shares his insights based on his experiences as the Head of Diversity and Inclusion for Uber and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “Diversity in isolation is not effective - to be successful it must always be paired with inclusion,” says Coleman. Meaningful D&I efforts requires engaging with others and navigating different perspectives to build lasting solutions.