On the record.
Podcasts, features, essays, and stages — on AI-first People operations, people analytics, and what the org chart looks like when agents get boxes of their own.
Podcasts
Connecting people data the way industry connects sensor data: knowledge graphs across engagement, performance, and CRM signals; why half of the traditional job is already automated — and why that’s the exciting part; and the cheesecloth framework for AI-first work.
With Melanie Naranjo — on retiring performance theater and measuring what work actually changes.
Career story, employer brand, and what NBA referees taught me about feedback and self-review.
A virtual-reality interview on the future of work.
Features & interviews
An interview with Dan Schawbel on next-generation People strategy.
Contributor — named among the Top 100 Millennial Leaders.
Essays
Judgment under pressure, three hours of film for every one-hour game, and why the best development systems look nothing like annual reviews.
Where I write regularly on AI-first People operations, the third column, and watching the tape.
Stages
Keynotes, panels, and sessions for LinkedIn, HackingHR, The Conference Board, the Talent Management Alliance, the People Analytics Global Summit, TheLadders, and Workforce Live — plus guest lectures at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business (advisory council member since 2013).
His delivery was by turns informative, funny and poignant. He is a high-energy guy, and his enthusiasm was contagious.”
Ed Frauenheim — former Workforce editor; co-author, Reinventing Masculinity
Do NOT be alarmed if he walks onto the stage with an elephant head.”
Cortne Pappas — event attendee, apparently forever changed
Recognition: Top 25 HR Executive Under 40 (Workforce) · HR Rising Star (Atlanta Business Chronicle) · Top 100 HR Influencer (Engagedly) · #1-ranked U.S. Recruiter (TheLadders) · SHRM-Atlanta Pegasus Award
Bring the third column to your stage.
I speak on AI-first People operating models, people analytics, the org chart’s third column, and watching the tape — for conferences, podcasts, executive offsites, and boards.