Why Focusing on Small, Risk Free AI Wins Accelerates Large-Scale HR Transformation

Josh Lemon leads Total Rewards at Resideo. He's been embedding AI into his HR function without writing a line of code. This episode covers how.We get into how he's automating job descriptions, a chatbot he built for employee engagement, and the review process his team runs with legal and cybersecurity before anything goes near production data. He's operating across multiple jurisdictions, so the governance piece isn't optional.He starts small on purpose. Email drafting, job matching, holiday calendar population. Experiments that are easy to check and quick to walk back. He builds confidence at the edges before touching anything that matters.We also cover how he measures success. He's looking at whether managers are making better decisions, whether employees are more engaged, and whether his team can revisit calls they used to make once and move on from. Speed is a byproduct.If you work in Total Rewards and you're trying to figure out where to start, this one's a good reference point.