In the latest episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer and Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group™, sits down with Jeanna Shapiro, Chief People & Culture Officer at Grant Thornton Advisors LLC, to dig into new Brandon Hall Group™ research on the AI-enabled HR operating model.

Shapiro brings nearly 30 years in HR and talent leadership across Booz Allen Hamilton, Oliver Wyman and now Grant Thornton, where she has served as Chief People & Culture Officer for the past 3½ years. That mix of HR expertise and business ownership shapes how she pushes back on the idea that a successful launch is the same thing as a successful outcome.

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host David Wentworth, Managing Director of Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group™, talks with Bernie Barbour, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Skillsoft, about why most of the skills data organizations already have cannot actually be trusted, and what it takes to build a system that turns skills into a measurable business discipline instead of a completion rate.

Barbour brings the technical and product view of what it actually takes to build that system at scale, from separating claimed skills from earned skills to using AI without letting judgment quietly erode. Together with Wentworth, Barbour digs into why proficiency is so hard to define, what changes once a skill has to show up in real work and why picking one problem to solve beats trying to fix everything at once.

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host David Wentworth, Managing Director for Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group™, talks with Matt Paretsky, Learning and Development Project Manager at VPS Learning, about a leadership skill that rarely gets its own spotlight in development programs: the willingness to take an informed risk and move forward without every answer in hand.

Paretsky's background includes years of work in risk management and business continuity planning outside of learning and development, and that experience shapes how he approaches leadership training today. He also draws on his time working alongside successful leaders and business strategists, as well as a current client project that is extending communication and emotional intelligence training well beyond the management ranks.