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Recent episodes include "334 - The Change Episode: Laura McGann (Chief People Officer, Prosci)", "333 - Vercel's 2-Week Review Cycle & Flight Risk Tool: Olivia Williams (Head of HR, Vercel)", and "332 - Deciding what to keep & what to kill as your company scales: Conor Sweeney, VP, Head of People & Talent, Form Health". The latest went out on 29 Sep 2026 and ran about 60 minutes. Reading two or three of these before pitching is the fastest way to see what the show actually books.

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The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR publishes about twice a week, a median of 4 days between episodes. Episodes average about 57 minutes. The back catalogue stands at 339 episodes. A show on this cadence plans ahead, so pitch earlier rather than closer to the date you want.

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The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR covers leadership, organizational culture, employee engagement, hr, so guests who can speak to those specifically fit best. The show carries an audience score of 7/100. Lead with a specific result you can describe in numbers rather than a job title, and tie it to something the show has already covered.

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The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR is hosted by The Modern People Leader. They have published 339 episodes. The show covers business.

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The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR
334 - The Change Episode: Laura McGann (Chief People Officer, Prosci)
Sep 29, 20261 hour
Laura McGann joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why change management no longer feels like the right term, how the ADKAR framework helps people name where they are stuck, and what leaders need to do as AI, velocity, overwhelm, and constant change reshape work. ---- Sponsor Links: Request a demo of Shapes Learn more about Tilt at hellotilt.com/mpl Explore the 2026 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report MPL Links: Go sign up for MPL Build . ---- (12:25) Why “Change Management” No Longer Feels Like the Right Term (17:35) Why Defining Success Is the Most Important Part of Change (18:20) People-Side Metrics: Utilization, Adoption and Proficiency (21:10) Why Change No Longer Has Clear End Dates (22:20) No Recovery Gap and the Rise of Change Fatigue (25:10) Naming What Is Happening Through ADKAR (25:35) ADKAR: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement (26:40) Using ADKAR to Name Where You Are Stuck (29:00) Why Leaders Often Skip Awareness and Desire (29:45) AI and the Perpetual Knowledge-to-Ability Cycle (33:30) Why the Pace of Change Feels So Uncomfortable (35:10) Why Leaders Need a Portfolio View of Change (38:10) Why Leaders Should Not Be Afraid to Say “Overwhelmed” (41:00) What Future Leaders Need to Learn About AI (45:45) Why Leaders Need Hands on Keyboards (46:30) AI as an Enabler of Business Strategy, Not the Strategy (47:15) Daniel’s Suitcase Metaphor for Manager Overload (50:00) Deciding What AI Can Do and What Must Stay Human (52:00) Stephen on Knowing What Not to Do (56:00) Career Advice: Learn the Business Before You Try to Change It ---- Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get episode recaps Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn ---- Past guests on MPL include Brené Brown, Annie Dean (VP of Team Anywhere, Atlassian), Josh Bersin, Katie Burke (Chief People Officer, Harvey), Liz Fosslien, Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, HubSpot), Dave Scott (Chief People Officer, ADT), Melanie Rossenwasser (Chief People Officer, Dropbox), Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Sprout Social), and many more.
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333 - Vercel's 2-Week Review Cycle & Flight Risk Tool: Olivia Williams (Head of HR, Vercel)
Sep 26, 202655 min
Olivia Williams joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how Vercel shortened its performance review cycle from 11 weeks to two weeks and how they built a 15-factor flight risk tool to retain top talent. ---- Sponsor Links: Request a demo of Shapes MPL Links: Go sign up for MPL Build . ---- (12:25) Why Vercel Rethought Its Performance Review Cycle (13:35) Realizing Vercel Was Spending Five Months a Year in Review Mode (14:05) Why Most Employees Submitted Reviews on the Last Day Anyway (14:40) Cutting the Review Cycle From 11 Weeks to Two Weeks (17:35) Faster Feedback and More Relevant Review Conversations (18:55) What the Two-Week Review Cycle Looks Like (20:50) Treating the Review Cycle Like a Product for the Business (22:10) PerfBot and Continuous Monthly Feedback (22:35) Why Olivia Wants to “Kill Culture Amp” (24:05) Monthly Slack Check-Ins With Three Simple Questions (26:00) Hiring an HR Technologist Inside the People Org (27:15) Stephen’s Rant: Why Traditional SaaS Tools Are Cooked (29:45) The Importance of Play, Curiosity and Building (30:20) Why People Teams Need AI Muscle and HR Technologists (32:30) Olivia Demos PerfBot in Slack (37:40) Vercel’s Employee Health Score and Attrition Risk Tool (40:40) Using Claude to Analyze 15 Employee Risk Factors (43:20) Thinking of HR as a Product for Employees (46:45) Advice for People Teams With Head Trash Around AI (49:00) Why Companies Should Bake in Time to Build ---- Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get episode recaps Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn ---- Past guests on MPL include Brené Brown, Annie Dean (VP of Team Anywhere, Atlassian), Josh Bersin, Katie Burke (Chief People Officer, Harvey), Liz Fosslien, Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, HubSpot), Dave Scott (Chief People Officer, ADT), Melanie Rossenwasser (Chief People Officer, Dropbox), Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Sprout Social), and many more.
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332 - Deciding what to keep & what to kill as your company scales: Conor Sweeney, VP, Head of People & Talent, Form Health
Sep 22, 20261h 7m
Conor Sweeney joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about what it's looked like to scale culture while doubling in size every year for three years straight. ---- Sponsor Links: Schedule a consultation with Manifest Learn more about Tilt at hellotilt.com/mpl Explore the 2026 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report MPL Links: Go sign up for MPL Build . ---- (12:05) Lessons From Jessica Swank and Tiffany Stevenson (12:40) Learning Patience, Empathy and Flexibility as a Leader (18:25) What Form Health Does in Plain English (21:30) Scaling Culture While Form Health Doubles in Size (23:25) The Fork in the Road: What to Keep and What to Let Go (25:05) Why Consensus-Driven Decision-Making Stops Scaling (28:00) Trust as the Foundation for Faster Decision-Making (31:15) How to Scale Trust Day to Day (32:35) Why Nailing the Fundamentals Still Matters (33:25) Hiring for Both the What and the How (35:40) “Don’t Crush the Butterfly” and What Form Health Must Protect (36:30) Form Health’s First Butterfly: Clinical Care Quality (38:45) Form Health’s Second Butterfly: Partnership (43:20) Build With, Not Build For, as a People Leader (45:30) Project Compass and Form Health’s Job Architecture Upgrade (48:00) Building Consistency Around Levels, Competencies and Compensation (49:15) Building Job Architecture for the Next Phase of Growth (51:10) Why People Leaders Can’t Only Rely on Old Benchmarking Tools (53:00) The Rise of the High-Impact Individual Contributor (56:00) The Player-Coach Model of Modern Management ---- Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get episode recaps Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn ---- Past guests on MPL include Brené Brown, Annie Dean (VP of Team Anywhere, Atlassian), Josh Bersin, Katie Burke (Chief People Officer, Harvey), Liz Fosslien, Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, HubSpot), Dave Scott (Chief People Officer, ADT), Melanie Rossenwasser (Chief People Officer, Dropbox), Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Sprout Social), and many more.
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331 - Designing the org of the future: Alexis Fink (Advisor at OpenAI & Workvivo)
Sep 18, 20261h 3m
Alexis Fink joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how AI is changing work, why org design needs to move beyond boxes and lines, and how curiosity, influence, courage, and better systems thinking can help people leaders design for the future. ---- Sponsor Links: Schedule a consultation with Manifest Learn more about Tilt at hellotilt.com/mpl Learn more about SixFifty MPL Links: Go sign up for MPL Build . ---- (14:10) The One-Way Door of AI and Work (17:15) Why AI Transformation Will Take Longer Than 18 Months (19:05) What Org Design Means in the AI Era (20:30) Work Organization, Decision Rights and the Role of Machines (22:15) Why the Org Chart Is the Wrong Question (23:05) Inverted Pyramids, Hourglass Models and Different Assumptions About Talent (25:00) The IKEA Example: Turning Automation Into New Human Work (28:05) Why AI Should Free Capacity, Not Just Eliminate Jobs (31:40) How to Reframe the Headcount Reduction Conversation (33:25) Breaking Through Constraints, Vendor Issues and Learned Helplessness (36:45) Budget Constraints and the Problem With Legacy Decision Rights (40:20) Lessons From Past Transformations at Microsoft (43:00) Creating a Hard Gate for Vice President Promotions (44:10) Creating a Real Individual Contributor Career Path (47:30) What Has Changed About Change Management (49:05) Multiple Layers of Change and the Need for a Clear North Star (50:25) Avoiding Shiny Object Syndrome and Finishing the Last Mile (53:10) The Difference Between Influence and Convincing (55:45) Creating Gravitational Pull Instead of Pushing ---- Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get episode recaps Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn ---- Past guests on MPL include Brené Brown, Annie Dean (VP of Team Anywhere, Atlassian), Josh Bersin, Katie Burke (Chief People Officer, Harvey), Liz Fosslien, Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, HubSpot), Dave Scott (Chief People Officer, ADT), Melanie Rossenwasser (Chief People Officer, Dropbox), Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Sprout Social), and many more.
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330 - A career in pivots: Dean Carter on purpose, play, and taking big swings
Sep 17, 20261h 5m
Dean Carter (Best-Selling Author, 4x CHRO, & CEO of Instill) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the career pivots that shaped his life, what Patagonia taught him about purpose and play, and why trusting your gut, taking big swings, and doing the right thing can lead you somewhere better than the plan you originally had. ---- Sponsor Links: Explore the 2026 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report Learn more about SixFifty MPL Links: Go sign up for MPL Build . ---- (12:30) Dean’s Career Story Through Life Pivots (23:20) The Moment Dean Decided to Work in HR (28:45) Choosing His Daughter Over Career and Leaving Fossil (33:40) Choosing Patagonia Over Bigger Career Moves (37:50) Work as Play (39:00) Humility, Simplicity and Living the Patagonia Way (41:40) Dean’s Advice for People Considering a Major Career Pivot (43:20) Showing Up Fully After You Make the Choice (46:30) Making the Best of Any Choice You Make (48:40) Why Big Misses Mean You Are Swinging Hard Enough (50:00) Career Emergence and How the Path Reveals Itself (56:10) Building AI That Saves Jobs Instead of Taking Them (58:25) Career Advice: Think Two Jobs Up, Not One Job Up ---- Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get episode recaps Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn ---- Past guests on MPL include Brené Brown, Annie Dean (VP of Team Anywhere, Atlassian), Josh Bersin, Katie Burke (Chief People Officer, Harvey), Liz Fosslien, Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, HubSpot), Dave Scott (Chief People Officer, ADT), Melanie Rossenwasser (Chief People Officer, Dropbox), Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Sprout Social), and many more.
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The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR

334 - The Change Episode: Laura McGann (Chief People Officer, Prosci)

Sep 29, 20261 hour

Laura McGann joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why change management no longer feels like the right term, how the ADKAR framework helps people name where they are stuck, and what leaders need to do as AI, velocity, overwhelm, and constant change reshape work. ---- Sponsor Links: Request a demo of Shapes Learn more about Tilt at hellotilt.com/mpl Explore the 2026 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report MPL Links: Go sign up for MPL Build . ---- (12:25) Why “Change Management” No Longer Feels Like the Right Term (17:35) Why Defining Success Is the Most Important Part of Change (18:20) People-Side Metrics: Utilization, Adoption and Proficiency (21:10) Why Change No Longer Has Clear End Dates (22:20) No Recovery Gap and the Rise of Change Fatigue (25:10) Naming What Is Happening Through ADKAR (25:35) ADKAR: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement (26:40) Using ADKAR to Name Where You Are Stuck (29:00) Why Leaders Often Skip Awareness and Desire (29:45) AI and the Perpetual Knowledge-to-Ability Cycle (33:30) Why the Pace of Change Feels So Uncomfortable (35:10) Why Leaders Need a Portfolio View of Change (38:10) Why Leaders Should Not Be Afraid to Say “Overwhelmed” (41:00) What Future Leaders Need to Learn About AI (45:45) Why Leaders Need Hands on Keyboards (46:30) AI as an Enabler of Business Strategy, Not the Strategy (47:15) Daniel’s Suitcase Metaphor for Manager Overload (50:00) Deciding What AI Can Do and What Must Stay Human (52:00) Stephen on Knowing What Not to Do (56:00) Career Advice: Learn the Business Before You Try to Change It ---- Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get episode recaps Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn ---- Past guests on MPL include Brené Brown, Annie Dean (VP of Team Anywhere, Atlassian), Josh Bersin, Katie Burke (Chief People Officer, Harvey), Liz Fosslien, Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, HubSpot), Dave Scott (Chief People Officer, ADT), Melanie Rossenwasser (Chief People Officer, Dropbox), Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Sprout Social), and many more.

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Recent episodes

334 - The Change Episode: Laura McGann (Chief People Officer, Prosci)

333 - Vercel's 2-Week Review Cycle & Flight Risk Tool: Olivia Williams (Head of HR, Vercel)

332 - Deciding what to keep & what to kill as your company scales: Conor Sweeney, VP, Head of People & Talent, Form Health

331 - Designing the org of the future: Alexis Fink (Advisor at OpenAI & Workvivo)

330 - A career in pivots: Dean Carter on purpose, play, and taking big swings

Guest Appearances

Claude Silver

Dean Carter

D.V. Williams

Christy Lake

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The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR

About this Podcast:

Pitch Analysis

What is The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR?

About the host

Recent episodes

334 - The Change Episode: Laura McGann (Chief People Officer, Prosci)

333 - Vercel's 2-Week Review Cycle & Flight Risk Tool: Olivia Williams (Head of HR, Vercel)

332 - Deciding what to keep & what to kill as your company scales: Conor Sweeney, VP, Head of People & Talent, Form Health

331 - Designing the org of the future: Alexis Fink (Advisor at OpenAI & Workvivo)

330 - A career in pivots: Dean Carter on purpose, play, and taking big swings

Guest Appearances

Claude Silver

Dean Carter

D.V. Williams

Christy Lake

Advertisers on this show

Best industries to pitch The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR for

Podcasts like The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR

Every question we get asked beforesomeone starts their trial.

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