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People analytics for the AI-shaped workplace.

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Digital HR Leaders with David Green is a business-focused HR show built around practical conversations on people analytics, AI, and the future of work. Episodes connect workplace questions to data, governance, finance, learning, employee experience, and measurable business outcomes.

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About Digital HR Leaders with David Green

Digital HR Leaders with David Green is a polished HR strategy show centered on people analytics, digital capability, and the future of work. It speaks to HR as a business function with real operating consequences. The episodes are structured and purposeful. Recent conversations move across AI adoption, workplace design, learning transformation, employee experience, fragmented HR and finance data, and the role of human capital in private equity. The show’s recurring question is not simply what is changing at work, but how leaders should govern, measure, and redesign around that change. AI is a constant thread. It is treated as a force that can automate tasks, augment teams, alter entry-level development, and raise new questions about judgment, ethics, and connection. The show is especially strong when it gets specific about data. Guests talk about whether organizations can identify where employees actually work, how managers pull information from disconnected systems, and why finance needs to trust HR’s models before senior leaders will act on them. That gives the series a grounded, operational feel. It does not linger in slogans. It asks what variables should be captured, what definitions should be shared, and what decisions better data can actually improve. The people side remains central. Episodes examine loneliness at work, belonging, learning that goes beyond box-ticking, and employee experience in a period of renewed performance pressure. The conversations are calm but not soft. They often press HR leaders to connect programs to productivity, capability, revenue, margins, and value creation. Guests bring different lenses, from workplace experience and organizational psychology to learning platforms, people leadership, market insights, futurism, and private equity human capital. The result is a show for senior HR, people analytics, and workforce strategy listeners who need to think across systems. It rewards listeners who care about both empathy and evidence. It is most useful when HR decisions need to be defended in the language of the business.

Made for: Built for HR leaders, people analytics professionals, CHROs, L&D leaders, and workforce strategists who need practical thinking on AI, skills, data, and employee experience. It also suits business leaders who want HR framed in measurable, operational terms.

What sets it apart: The show stands out by tying future-of-work themes to the mechanics of decision-making: data quality, governance, finance partnership, work design, and business value. It keeps the conversation senior, specific, and implementation-minded.

In their own words

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.

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

It translates people analytics and workplace strategy into concrete choices about performance, technology, data quality, and organizational value.

David Green treats HR as a set of consequential business decisions, using interviews to connect employee experience, people analytics, workplace design, and AI with measurable organizational performance.

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Why you'd press play

David Green brings HR face to face with EBITDA; your favorite people initiative has to explain itself.

Press play if you want

  • your people analytics to survive a finance colleague asking whether you even agree on FTEs
  • help deciding which AI ideas are useful at work and which deserve an ethical pause
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Episodes

  1. 1

    How HR Can Lead Successful Digital Transformation Initiatives (an Interview with Lucy Adams)

    ·55m
  2. 2

    Rethinking L&D for an AI-Driven World

    ·47m
  3. 3

    Work Redesign In The Age of Age: What HR Leaders Must Know

    ·45m
  4. 4

    AI, Loneliness and the Future of Connection at Work

    ·54m
  5. 5

    The Hidden Cost of Fragmented HR and Finance Data

    ·52m
  6. 6

    The CHRO Playbook for Employee Experience in an AI Era

    ·59m
  7. 7

    What HR Can Learn from Private Equity About Driving Business Value

    ·52m
  8. 8

    How to Connect Strategic Workforce Planning to Business Outcomes

    ·50m
  9. 9

    Why People Analytics Needs a Product Mindset to Thrive with AI

    ·57m
  10. 10

    Rethinking Strategic Workforce Planning in the Age of AI and Skills Disruption

    ·47m
  11. 11

    The Data-Driven Reality of How Work Is Evolving in 2026

    ·52m
  12. 12

    What Tesla Taught One HR Leader About Courage, Power, and Agency

    ·45m
  13. 13

    The Real Reason Hybrid, AI, and Change Initiatives Keep Failing

    ·50m
  14. 14

    The Agentic Organisation: How AI–Human Collaboration Is Redefining Work, Leadership, and Performance.

    ·42m
  15. 15

    How UPS Is Using AI to Prepare Its Workforce for the Next Chapter of Work

    ·43m
  16. 16

    What Happens When Every Employee Has an AI Coach?

    ·57m
  17. 17

    The New CHRO-CEO Partnership: Leading With Insight and Humanity

    ·39m
  18. 18

    The Science Behind High-Performing Teams

    ·56m
  19. 19

    Why Authenticity Is Overrated - and What Great Leaders Do Instead

    ·58m
  20. 20

    Why Authenticity Is Overrated - and What Great Leaders Do Instead

    ·46m
  21. 21

    AI in HR Tech: What Investors and Leaders Need to Know

    ·46m
  22. 22

    What Every People Analytics Leader Can Learn from HSBC’s Transformation

    ·43m
  23. 23

    Is AI accelerating a skills revolution, or deepening the divide in knowledge work?

    ·40m
  24. 24

    How to Influence Business Strategy Through Workforce Planning (an Interview with Ross Sparkman)

    ·54m
  25. 25

    How to Transform HR Into an Insight-Driven Function (an Interview with Jenny Dearborn)

    ·54m
  26. 26

    How to Reconnect Learning to Business Outcomes with Skills (an Interview with Vincent-Pierre Giroux)

    ·44m
  27. 27

    How to Redefine Culture and Performance as Your Company Scales (an Interview with Toby Hough)

    ·50m
  28. 28

    Scaling Organisations Through Strategic HR (an Interview with Olena Bondareva)

    ·50m
  29. 29

    How Microsoft Uses People Data to Shape Flexible Working that Helps Teams Thrive (an Interview with Dawn Klinghoffer)

    ·44m
  30. 30

    How AI and Behavioural Science Are Transforming Employee Listening (an Interview with David Barrett and Katarina Coppé)

    ·55m
  31. 31

    How Building C-Suite Influence Increases the Value of People Analytics (an Interview with Brydie Lear)

    ·38m
  32. 32

    The Hidden ROI of Workplace Wellbeing (an Interview with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve)

    ·45m
  33. 33

    How Arcadis is Building a Skills Powered Organisation (an Interview with Amy Baxendale)

    ·49m
  34. 34

    The Skills Revolution: Your Playbook for Workforce Agility (an Interview with Ravin Jesuthasan and Brian Fisher)

    ·45m
  35. 35

    How Adaptive Skills and Talent Intelligence Will Power the Future of HR (an Interview with Loïc Michel)

    ·43m
  36. 36

    How to Drive Workforce Experience and Learning with Digital Coaching (an Interview with Anna Tavis)

    ·41m
  37. 37

    From CHRO to Chief Work Officer: The Next Evolution of HR Leadership

    ·52m
  38. 38

    Why Measuring Happiness Matters Just as Much as Engagement

    ·41m
  39. 39

    How Manulife Improved Employee Experience Through Transforming Its Organisational Culture (an Interview with Katherine Macnaughton)

    ·43m
  40. 40

    Uncertainty as an Opportunity: HR’s Role in Shaping the Future of Work (an Interview with Peter Hinssen)

    ·46m
  41. 41

    How People Analytics is Powering Business Strategy at Mastercard (an Interview with Anshul Sheopuri)

    ·39m
  42. 42

    The AI Pivot: Seagate’s Workforce Transformation in the Age of AI (an Interview with Patricia Frost and Ruslan Tovbulatov)

    ·56m
  43. 43

    Why HR Must Confront Covering to Build True Inclusion and Psychological Safety (an Interview with Rami Tzafrir)

    ·44m
  44. 44

    From Deployment to Impact: Maximising Business Value with HR Tech (an Interview with Matthew Brown)

    ·54m
  45. 45

    The CHRO’s Playbook: How to Build an Agile and Data-Driven HR Function (an Interview with Janine Vos)

    ·48m
  46. 46

    How AI is Reshaping the HR Operating Model (an Interview with Volker Jacobs)

    ·48m
  47. 47

    How HR Can Shape Business Strategy and Prove Its Impact (an Interview with Dave Ulrich)

    ·52m
  48. 48

    How People Analytics Empowers the Chief People Officer to Drive Value (an Interview with Dean Carter)

    ·39m
  49. 49

    How Human Intelligence Can Guide Responsible AI in the Workplace (an Interview with Kevin Heinzelman)

    ·53m
  50. 50

    How S&P has Embedded Workforce Planning into Business Strategy (an Interview with Alan Susi)

    ·45m
  51. 51

    The Role of People Analytics in Measuring AI Adoption and Business Impact (an Interview with Erik Schultink)

    ·39m
  52. 52

    How People Analytics and Science Powers Amazon’s Global Hiring Engine (an Interview with Ashish Parulekar)

    ·45m
  53. 53

    How Atlassian Uses Behavioural Science and Data to Power Distributed Work (an Interview with Annie Dean)

    ·53m
  54. 54

    How to Bridge Cultures and Lead Global Teams for Success (an Interview with Erin Meyer)

    ·48m
  55. 55

    How Lufthansa Group Combines Operational and Strategic Workforce Planning (an Interview with Dr. Tobias Bartholomé)

    ·40m
  56. 56

    What People Analytics Leaders Need to Know about Scaling their Function (an Interview with Henrik Hakansson)

    ·43m
  57. 57

    How to Turn Strategic Workforce Planning into Impactful Action (an Interview with David Wilkins)

    ·38m
  58. 58

    How Will AI Shape the Future of People Analytics? (An Interview with Prasad Setty)

    ·54m
  59. 59

    How HR Can Create Stakeholder Value and Drive Organisational Growth in 2025 (an Interview with Stacia Garr and Dave Ulrich)

    ·51m
  60. 60

    How to Navigate Challenges in Skills-Based Transformation Journeys (an Interview with Christophe Cabrera)

    ·45m
  61. 61

    Drive Success through Intentional and Adaptive Company Cultures (an Interview with Melissa Daimler)

    ·41m
  62. 62

    How to Use Skills Data to Solve Business Challenges (an Interview with Mikaël Wornoo)

    ·37m
  63. 63

    Responsible AI in HR: The Ethical Roadmap for Success (an Interview with Keith Sonderling)

    ·53m
  64. 64

    Building a Skills-Based Organisation: Lessons from a 30-Year Journey (an Interview with Sandra Loughlin)

    ·39m
  65. 65

    How Digital Transformation Fuels Skills and Ex at Lloyds Banking Group (an Interview with Lara Wainwright & Duncan Reynall)

    ·42m
  66. 66

    The Four Reskilling Principles Every HR Leader Should Know (an Interview with Anish Lalchandani)

    ·34m
  67. 67

    How Talent Orchestration Connects AI Investments to Real Business Results (an Interview with Jason Scheckner)

    ·44m
  68. 68

    What the Impact of Distributed Work on Organisational Networks Tells Us About the Future of Talent Management (an Interview with Michael Arena)

    ·37m
  69. 69

    How Mastercard is Using AI to Drive Employee Success and Leadership Growth (an Interview with Michael Fraccaro)

    ·34m
  70. 70

    Digitising HR for 55,000 Employees: Lessons from Standard Bank (an Interview with Sharon Taylor & Jaco Van Vuuren)

    ·46m
  71. 71

    How to Build the Skills-Powered Organisation (an Interview with Tanuj Kapilashrami & Ravin Jesuthasan)

    ·42m
  72. 72

    HR’s Strategic Role in Managing the AI-Driven Talent Restructure (an Interview with Keith Bigelow)

    ·39m
  73. 73

    How GSK is Using Data, Analytics and AI to Drive its HR Transformation (an Interview with Angela Le Mathon)

    ·34m
  74. 74

    The Key Role of HR in Successfully Integrating a Blended Workforce (an Interview with Lynda Gratton and Diane Gherson)

    ·47m
  75. 75

    How Learning to Fail Can Help People and Organisations to Thrive (an Interview with Amy Edmondson)

    ·39m
  76. 76

    How to Create a Flexible Work Model that Enhances Inclusion and Employee Experience (an Interview with Heidi Manna)

    ·41m
  77. 77

    Evolving Culture & Employee Experience in Fast-Growth Companies (an Interview with Nirit Peled-Muntz)

    ·42m
  78. 78

    HR Strategies for Embracing Neurodiverse Talent (an Interview with Maureen Dunne)

    ·48m
  79. 79

    Addressing the Global Skills Shortage with Open Talent Strategies (an Interview with John Winsor)

    ·42m
  80. 80

    How Cardinal Health Transformed Their People Analytics Function (an Interview with Erin Gerbec)

    ·45m
  81. 81

    Painting the Future of HR with AI, Analytics and Curiosity (an Interview with Armand Sohet)

    ·42m
  82. 82

    Driving Business Transformation with Advanced People Analytics (an Interview with Dirk Jonker)

    ·40m
  83. 83

    Navigating the Future of Work: AI, Skills, and Trust in the Modern Workforce (an Interview with Kate Bravery and Ilya Bonic)

    ·48m
  84. 84

    Four Steps Towards Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Company Culture (an Interview with Daisy Auger-Domínguez)

    ·43m
  85. 85

    Understanding the Build vs Buy Dilemma in HR Tech (an Interview with Craig Starbuck)

    ·47m
  86. 86

    How LEGO Integrates People, Places, and Culture (an Interview with Loren Shuster)

    ·43m
  87. 87

    How to Use Passive Data to Enhance Manager Effectiveness (an Interview with Catherine Coppinger)

    ·30m
  88. 88

    Mastering Storytelling for HR Transformation (an Interview with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)

    ·41m
  89. 89

    How IBM Uses AI to Transform Their HR Strategies (an Interview with Nickle LaMoreaux)

    ·51m
  90. 90

    Actionable People Analytics Strategies to Influence Senior Leadership (an Interview with Louise Millar and Olivia Edwards)

    ·37m
  91. 91

    What is Evidence Based HR and Why is it Important? (An Interview With Rob Briner)

    ·38m
  92. 92

    How to Prove the ROI of a Positive Company Culture (an Interview with Didier Elzinga)

    ·46m
  93. 93

    How to Embrace Long-Term Thinking in HR Leadership (an Interview with Dorie Clark)

    ·36m
  94. 94

    Microsoft's Key to Strategic Workforce Planning Success (an Interview with Becky Thielen)

    ·38m
  95. 95

    Achieving AI & Human Synergy in Data-Driven HR

    ·48m
  96. 96

    How to Overcome AI Adoption Challenges in HR (an Interview with Eric Siegel)

    ·35m
  97. 97

    How to Bridge the Gap Between Customer and Employee Experience (an Interview with Luke Farrugia & Kaz Hassan)

    ·42m
  98. 98

    How bp is Writing the Next Chapter. Discussing Transformation & Technology (with Kerry Dryburgh)

    David Green interviews Kerry Dryburgh, EVP of People, Culture and Communications at BP, about the company's transformation of its people strategy using technology and AI.

    ·42m
  99. 99

    How to Build the Next Generation of HR Leaders (an Interview with Dave Ulrich, Dick Beatty and Patrick Wright)

    An interview with three HR thought leaders discussing the future of HR leadership in an era of stakeholder capitalism, AI disruption, and uncertainty.

    ·1h
  100. 100

    How Leading Companies Turn People Analytics into Business Value (an Interview with Jonathan Ferrar and Naomi Verghese)

    David Green interviews Jonathan Ferrar and Naomi Verghese about how leading companies use people analytics to drive business value.

    ·42m
  101. 101

    Beyond Insight: People Analytics as Work Orchestration

    Hidden gem

    Digital HR Leaders with David Green centers on Jamie Nevshahir's shift from reporting to people analytics as work orchestration at NBCUniversal.

    Apr 14, 2026·47m·3 clips
  102. 102

    From CHRO to Chief Work Officer: The Next Evolution of HR Leadership

    Hidden gem

    This episode explores the evolving role of HR leadership towards a Chief Work Officer, focusing on intentional workplace design and its impact on employee experience and performance.

    Apr 7, 2026·52m·2 clips
  103. 103

    Rethinking L&D for an AI-Driven World

    Chris Eigland, CEO of Go1, discusses the evolution of workplace learning in an AI-driven world and what HR leaders should prioritize for learning transformation.

    Mar 31, 2026·47m
  104. 104

    Work Redesign In The Age of Age: What HR Leaders Must Know

    HR leader Heba Youssef discusses how AI is forcing organizations to rethink work design, job structures, and talent development.

    Mar 24, 2026·45m
  105. 105

    AI, Loneliness and the Future of Connection at Work

    This episode explores how AI integration in the workplace may affect social connections and belonging, featuring insights from organizational psychologist Connie Noonan-Hadley.

    Mar 17, 2026·54m
  106. 106

    The Hidden Cost of Fragmented HR and Finance Data

    Hidden gem

    David Green and Kenneth Matos focus on HiBob's Better Together study of 4,700 people managers, where 60% spend three or more hours assembling data and only 2% have a unified HR-finance view.

    Mar 10, 2026·52m·2 clips
  107. 107

    The CHRO Playbook for Employee Experience in an AI Era

    Hidden gem

    Digital HR Leaders with David Green centers on Jacob Morgan’s book on employee experience and the claim that many organisations “became nothing to everybody” after trying to be everything to everyone.

    Mar 3, 2026·59m·2 clips
  108. 108

    What HR Can Learn from Private Equity About Driving Business Value

    Hidden gem

    Angela Geffrey, Head of Human Capital at Growth Curve Capital, explains how private equity HR ties talent decisions to EBITDA, ARR, and the value creation plan.

    Feb 24, 2026·52m·2 clips
  109. 109

    How to Connect Strategic Workforce Planning to Business Outcomes

    Feb 17, 2026·50m
  110. 110

    Why People Analytics Needs a Product Mindset to Thrive with AI

    Feb 10, 2026·57m
  111. 111

    Rethinking Strategic Workforce Planning in the Age of AI and Skills Disruption

    Feb 3, 2026·47m
  112. 112

    The Data-Driven Reality of How Work Is Evolving in 2026

    Jan 27, 2026·52m
  113. 113

    What Tesla Taught One HR Leader About Courage, Power, and Agency

    Jan 20, 2026·45m
  114. 114

    The Real Reason Hybrid, AI, and Change Initiatives Keep Failing

    Jan 13, 2026·50m
  115. 115

    The Agentic Organisation: How AI–Human Collaboration Is Redefining Work, Leadership, and Performance.

    Jan 6, 2026·42m
  116. 116

    How UPS Is Using AI to Prepare Its Workforce for the Next Chapter of Work

    Dec 16, 2025·43m
  117. 117

    What Happens When Every Employee Has an AI Coach?

    Dec 9, 2025·57m
  118. 118

    The New CHRO-CEO Partnership: Leading With Insight and Humanity

    Dec 2, 2025·39m
  119. 119

    The Science Behind High-Performing Teams

    Nov 25, 2025·56m
  120. 120

    Why Authenticity Is Overrated - and What Great Leaders Do Instead

    Nov 18, 2025·46m
  121. 121

    Why Authenticity Is Overrated - and What Great Leaders Do Instead

    Nov 18, 2025·58m
  122. 122

    AI in HR Tech: What Investors and Leaders Need to Know

    Nov 11, 2025·46m
  123. 123

    What Every People Analytics Leader Can Learn from HSBC’s Transformation

    Nov 4, 2025·43m
  124. 124

    Is AI accelerating a skills revolution, or deepening the divide in knowledge work?

    Oct 28, 2025·40m
  125. 125

    How to Influence Business Strategy Through Workforce Planning (an Interview with Ross Sparkman)

    Oct 21, 2025·54m
  126. 126

    How to Transform HR Into an Insight-Driven Function (an Interview with Jenny Dearborn)

    Oct 14, 2025·54m
  127. 127

    How to Reconnect Learning to Business Outcomes with Skills (an Interview with Vincent-Pierre Giroux)

    Oct 7, 2025·44m
  128. 128

    How to Redefine Culture and Performance as Your Company Scales (an Interview with Toby Hough)

    Sep 30, 2025·50m
  129. 129

    Scaling Organisations Through Strategic HR (an Interview with Olena Bondareva)

    Sep 23, 2025·50m
  130. 130

    How Microsoft Uses People Data to Shape Flexible Working that Helps Teams Thrive (an Interview with Dawn Klinghoffer)

    Sep 16, 2025·44m
  131. 131

    How to Build the Next Generation of HR Leaders (an Interview with Dave Ulrich, Dick Beatty and Patrick Wright)

    Sep 9, 2025·1h
  132. 132

    How bp is Writing the Next Chapter. Discussing Transformation & Technology (with Kerry Dryburgh)

    BP's people chief Kerry Driver says the company reset its February strategy around shareholder value, a 20% increase in oil and gas investment, and a planned $45 billion cost-base cut by 2027.

    Sep 2, 2025·42m·3 clips
  133. 133

    How AI and Behavioural Science Are Transforming Employee Listening (an Interview with David Barrett and Katarina Coppé)

    Aug 26, 2025·55m
  134. 134

    How Building C-Suite Influence Increases the Value of People Analytics (an Interview with Brydie Lear)

    Aug 12, 2025·38m
  135. 135

    The Hidden ROI of Workplace Wellbeing (an Interview with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve)

    Jul 29, 2025·45m
  136. 136

    How Arcadis is Building a Skills Powered Organisation (an Interview with Amy Baxendale)

    Jul 22, 2025·49m
  137. 137

    The Skills Revolution: Your Playbook for Workforce Agility (an Interview with Ravin Jesuthasan and Brian Fisher)

    Jul 15, 2025·45m
  138. 138

    Uncertainty as an Opportunity: HR’s Role in Shaping the Future of Work (an Interview with Peter Hinssen)

    Jul 8, 2025·46m
  139. 139

    How People Analytics is Powering Business Strategy at Mastercard (an Interview with Anshul Sheopuri)

    Jul 1, 2025·39m
  140. 140

    The AI Pivot: Seagate’s Workforce Transformation in the Age of AI (an Interview with Patricia Frost and Ruslan Tovbulatov)

    Jun 24, 2025·56m
  141. 141

    Why HR Must Confront Covering to Build True Inclusion and Psychological Safety (an Interview with Rami Tzafrir)

    Jun 17, 2025·44m
  142. 142

    From Deployment to Impact: Maximising Business Value with HR Tech (an Interview with Matthew Brown)

    Jun 10, 2025·54m
  143. 143

    The CHRO’s Playbook: How to Build an Agile and Data-Driven HR Function (an Interview with Janine Vos)

    Jun 3, 2025·48m
  144. 144

    How AI is Reshaping the HR Operating Model (an Interview with Volker Jacobs)

    May 27, 2025·48m
  145. 145

    How HR Can Shape Business Strategy and Prove Its Impact (an Interview with Dave Ulrich)

    May 21, 2025·52m
  146. 146

    How People Analytics Empowers the Chief People Officer to Drive Value (an Interview with Dean Carter)

    May 13, 2025·39m
  147. 147

    How Human Intelligence Can Guide Responsible AI in the Workplace (an Interview with Kevin Heinzelman)

    May 6, 2025·53m
  148. 148

    How S&P has Embedded Workforce Planning into Business Strategy (an Interview with Alan Susi)

    An interview with Alan Susi, VP at S&P Global, discussing how workforce planning is integrated into business strategy using data and AI.

    Apr 29, 2025·45m
  149. 149

    The Role of People Analytics in Measuring AI Adoption and Business Impact (an Interview with Erik Schultink)

    Apr 22, 2025·39m
  150. 150

    How People Analytics and Science Powers Amazon’s Global Hiring Engine (an Interview with Ashish Parulekar)

    Apr 15, 2025·45m