Season 57, Episode 286 · Digital HR Leaders with David Green
How Snowflake Is Using People Analytics to Lead AI Transformation
22 Sep 2026 · 55 min
Season 57, Episode 286 · Digital HR Leaders with David Green
22 Sep 2026 · 55 min
As AI reshapes work, the people function has an opportunity to play a much bigger role in how organisations navigate the transformation. At Snowflake, that starts with trusted data, strong people analytics and a clear view of what technology should automate, where it should augment human capability, and what should remain human. In this episode, David Green is joined by Arnnon Geshuri , Chief People Officer at Snowflake. Drawing on a career that includes senior roles at Google, Tesla and Teladoc Health, Arnnon explains why data has become a common language between HR and the business, and…
by David Green · English · Business
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 digi
S57 · 6 Oct 2026 · 54 min
Your organisation has committed to an AI strategy. But what does that commitment mean for the people who have to work differently because of it? AI adoption is moving into a more demanding phase. The challenge for HR and learning leaders is translating technology investment into new capabilities, different ways of working and measurable business outcomes. In this special episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Mike Wynn , SVP, Academy Executive for AI Capabilities & Enterprise Learning Products at Bank of America, and Himanshu Palsule , CEO of Cornerstone.…
S57 · E287 · 29 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
What if the thing slowing down AI in HR isn't the technology at all, but the way the function is set up to deliver it? Most HR organisations already have access to AI. The bigger challenge is whether the way HR is structured, governed and measured is ready to turn that technology into sustainable business value. In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Michael Rochelle , Chief Strategy Officer, principal analyst and co-founder of Brandon Hall Group, to explore new research identifying six structural moves for building an AI-enabled HR operating model. Join…
S57 · E285 · 15 Sep 2026 · 45 min
A year ago, the challenge was getting people to use AI. Now, the harder task is turning widespread experimentation into redesigned work, stronger productivity and measurable business impact. In this episode, David Green is joined by Ronni Zehavi , Co-Founder and CEO of HiBob, to explore what the company has learned from its own award-winning AI transformation. Ronni also shares an early, inside perspective on Salesforce’s $166 million investment in HiBob and why it represents an important next chapter in the company’s evolution towards an Organisational Intelligence platform, built on…
S57 · E284 · 8 Sep 2026 · 55 min
Your AI adoption numbers might be climbing. But what do they tell you about your people? Kelly Jones , Chief People Officer at Cisco, and her team set out to answer that question, and the findings are reshaping how Cisco thinks about engagement, performance, leadership, and the future of HR itself. In this conversation, David and Kelly discuss: What prompted Cisco's People Intelligence team to ask a bigger question about AI than most organisations are asking The connection between AI use, employee engagement, and career growth at Cisco Why leaders who use AI themselves are so critical to…
S57 · E283 · 1 Sep 2026 · 56 min
If you knew you might live to 100, how differently would you think about the career you are building today? Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, where she's taught for more than thirty years and leads the world's number one ranked programme in human resources. Lynda is also the bestselling co-author of the million selling The 100-Year Life. Ahead of the publication of her new book, Living the 100-Year Life: How to build a career that lasts and a life you love , Lynda joins David to explore why longer lives are stretching the…
S56 · 25 Aug 2026 · 57 min
Should workforce transformation belong to HR? Bettina Dietsche, Group Chief People and Culture Officer at Allianz, doesn't think so. Bettina leads the people agenda for around 156,000 employees at Allianz. She came to HR after 25 years in IT and digital transformation, picking up the people function while serving as COO of Allianz Commercial during a company turnaround. That background shapes her view that HR's job is to challenge and push transformation onto the business agenda - not to own it. In this episode, David and Bettina discuss: Why she believes HR should challenge and nudge…
S56 · E281 · 4 Aug 2026 · 49 min
Do you know which of your people are wired to thrive in chaos, and which ones need certainty to do their best work? In this episode, David is joined by Mike Flannagan , Corporate Vice President, Customer & Commercial Success at Microsoft, and Paul Burgess , founder of Instinctive Drives, to explore Microsoft's recent partnership with Instinctive Drives and what it reveals about the human side of AI transformation. Together they unpack why the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology itself, but the mismatch between people's natural instincts and the roles they're being asked to…
S56 · E282 · 4 Aug 2026 · 49 min
Do you know which of your people are wired to thrive in chaos, and which ones need certainty to do their best work? In this episode, David is joined by Mike Flannagan , Corporate Vice President, Customer & Commercial Success at Microsoft, and Paul Burgess , founder of Instinctive Drives, to explore Microsoft's recent partnership with Instinctive Drives and what it reveals about the human side of AI transformation. Together they unpack why the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology itself, but the mismatch between people's natural instincts and the roles they're being asked to…
S56 · E280 · 28 Jul 2026 · 46 min
How do you bring AI into an organisation without losing what's made it work for 150 years? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Eric Dozier, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Eli Lilly, to explore what it takes for HR to lead AI and workforce transformation at enterprise scale. Join them, as they discuss: Why HR has to transform twice over in the AI era, first as a function, then as an organisation What prompted Lilly's AI journey, and how the friction points that came up shaped the approach going forward How the role of the manager…
S56 · E279 · 21 Jul 2026 · 51 min
What if the resistance you're seeing from your team isn't opposition at all? David Green is joined by Travis Hahler , who leads global strategy and transformation at Salesforce and is also the founder of Neurological Nomad, where he applies neuroscience and neuropsychology to how leaders manage change. Travis is the author of the new book Rethink Resistance, and his central argument reframes almost everything: resistance isn't personal, it's protective. Why resistance to change should be read as information, not opposition: The six neurological barriers to change, and why leaders need to…