Elevate Your AIQ

Bob sits down with Eric Knauf, founder of BelongHQ and author of The 56% Solution: How Belonging Infrastructure Transforms Performance, who traces his path from studying organizational psychology to leading talent through a company's 55% reduction in force and a historically low employee net promote...

Tracy St.Dic, VP of Global Talent at Zapier, joins Bob to talk about what it actually takes to build an AI-fluent workforce, drawing on her fifteen years in education, including a stint leading national recruitment at Teach for America, before joining Zapier. She walks through the origin and evoluti...

Bob is joined by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, better known as Dr. Gleb, CEO and founder of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of the new book “The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results”. Drawing on over a hundred consulting projects and thousands of survey responses, Dr. Gleb expla...

Bob sits down with Anne Descalzo and Rachel Zillner, co-founders of The RADZ Group, to trace their path from banking colleagues to serial entrepreneurs building a diverse portfolio of companies. Anne and Rachel share what it felt like to step back from the CEO seat at Clutch, the company they built ...

Bob sits down with Olivier Vidal, founder of Sightline and a longtime HR tech product leader, for an overdue conversation on AI readiness. They explore why enterprise ambitions for AI so often outpace the underlying data and organizational maturity needed to support them, and how the workforce datas...

James Regan, CEO of Clutch, joins Bob to unpack what he learned leading some of the earliest generative AI deployments inside California state government under Governor Newsom's 2023 executive order. James traces his path from public health in Health and Human Services to Deputy Secretary for Workfo...

Bob sits down with Erika Oliver, Founder and Managing Director of NewtonHaus and Executive Analyst at Aptitude Research, for a wide ranging look at where AI is really landing in HR and the workforce. Erika shares her non-linear path through executive search and coaching, an unexpected pivot into lab...

Gerry Crispin, founder of CareerXroads and a five-decade veteran of the talent industry, joins Bob to trace recruiting's evolution from paper resumes and fax machines to today's AI-driven hiring landscape. Gerry reflects on the origins of CareerXroads as a trusted peer community built on open sharin...

Andrew Brooks, CEO and Founder of Contextual.io, joins Bob to trace a career that runs from early-internet consulting through three exits (Seven Space to Sun Microsystems, a marketing company to ReachLocal, and SmartThings to Samsung) before landing on AI. Andrew explains Contextual's "own your AI" ...

Katherine von Jan (KVJ), CEO and Co-founder of Tough Day and a longtime innovation leader across Lotus Development, IBM, Salesforce, and multiple startups, joins Bob to trace a career built on one consistent thread: putting culture and human potential at the center of technology. The conversation co...