Digital HR Leaders with David Green
David Green
In this series, David Green will be speaking to a range of senior HR leaders who are pushing a data-driven and digital HR agenda. There is an increasing need for HR professionals to become more digitally and numerically literate – to acquire the skills necessary to process, produce and leverage digital information to create business value. You'll hear from people leaders who are driving transformation in their organisations on how HR can prepare for the future and what HR leaders need to do to prepare for the Future of Work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 22, 2026 • 55min
How Snowflake Is Using People Analytics to Lead AI Transformation
Arnnon Geshuri, Chief People Officer at Snowflake and former people leader at Google, Tesla, and Teladoc Health, explores how trusted data can give HR a stronger voice in business decisions. He discusses Snowflake’s approach to automating tasks, augmenting creativity, and preserving human connection, plus AI-driven talent tools, redesigned career paths, workforce planning, and the capabilities future people leaders need.
6 snips
Sep 15, 2026 • 45min
Inside Salesforce’s $166M Bet on HiBob’s Organisational Intelligence
Ronni Zehavi, co-founder and CEO of HiBob, discusses Salesforce’s $166 million investment and HiBob’s evolution toward organisational intelligence. He explores moving beyond AI experimentation to measurable productivity, managers as transformation leaders, skills-based job redesign, and HR’s expanding role. Ronni also reveals how his digital twin supports his daily work and why trusted workforce data, governance and people-first design matter.
18 snips
Sep 8, 2026 • 55min
How People Intelligence Is Helping Shape Cisco’s AI Workforce Transformation
Kelly Jones, Chief People Officer at Cisco, leads people strategy and workforce transformation. She discusses how people intelligence reveals AI’s impact on engagement, performance, career growth, leadership confidence, and trust. The conversation explores redesigning work beyond job titles, preparing HR for the intelligence era, responsible adoption, and why wellbeing is essential to business performance.
8 snips
Sep 1, 2026 • 56min
The 100-Year Life: Rethinking Careers for a Longer Working Life
Lynda Gratton, London Business School professor and bestselling author of The 100-Year Life, explores how longer lives are transforming careers. She unpacks eight threads for resilient, fulfilling working lives, from mastery and friendship to calm and adventure. The conversation examines AI’s impact on tasks, the end of linear career ladders, internal mobility, and how organisations can support repeated transitions.
6 snips
Aug 25, 2026 • 57min
How Allianz Is Building a Workforce Ready for Constant Change
Bettina Dietsche, Group Chief People and Culture Officer at Allianz with 25 years in IT and digital transformation. She explains why workforce change should be owned by the business while HR nudges it. Topics include partnering HR with IT, building AI into daily leadership habits, reshaping early-career roles for an AI era, and measuring culture and transformation impact.
6 snips
Aug 4, 2026 • 49min
Your Team's AI Instincts: Why AI Adoption Succeeds or Fails on How You're Wired
Paul Burgess, founder of Instinctive Drives, studies innate motivations to align people and teams. Mike Flanagan, Microsoft VP, helps orgs realize value from AI. They explore how natural wiring shapes who thrives in experimentation or needs certainty. They discuss matching instincts to AI roles, psychological safety as a prerequisite, and using a shared language to speed adoption.
6 snips
Aug 4, 2026 • 49min
Your Team's AI Instincts: Why AI Adoption Succeeds or Fails on How You're Wired
Paul Burgess, founder of Instinctive Drives who maps innate work instincts, and Mike Flannagan, Microsoft leader for customer success in AI, discuss how natural wiring shapes AI adoption. They explore which people thrive in experimentation or need certainty. They cover psychological safety, matching roles to instincts, and building teams and leadership rhythms that speed adoption.
7 snips
Jul 28, 2026 • 46min
How HR Can Lead AI and Workforce Transformation Across the Enterprise
Eric Dozier, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Eli Lilly with 25+ years and a commercial leadership background. He talks about why HR must transform twice in the AI era. He explains Lilly’s AI beginnings and responsible AI principles. He covers how managers’ roles evolve, mapping jobs to tasks for AI, and how employee feedback reshaped the rollout.
6 snips
Jul 21, 2026 • 51min
What Neuroscience Reveals About Making Change Stick
Travis Hahler, a global strategy and transformation leader at Salesforce and founder of Neurological Nomad, applies neuroscience to change management. He explains why resistance is protective rather than oppositional. Short takes cover habit pullback, six neurological barriers to change, pacing learning for real adoption, and how to design safe, practical approaches for workforce and AI transformations.
21 snips
Jul 14, 2026 • 38min
From HR Silos to One Connected People System
Tony Truong, VP of People Strategy, Operations, Technology and Analytics at Chime, rebuilt Chime’s people function during its move to a public company and leads AI-enabled HR transformation. He discusses breaking HR silos, designing employee-centered operating models, embedding people analytics into decisions, and a three-stage AI framework—assistance, automation, orchestration—to speed hiring and orchestrate workflows.
