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Elevate Your AIQ
by WRKdefined Podcast Network
Bob Pulver is helping each of us navigate our respective journeys with artificial intelligence (AI) effectively and responsibly. Bob chats with AI and Future of Work experts, talent and transformation leaders, and practitioners who provide diverse perspectives on how AI is solving real-world challenges and driving responsible innovation.
Episodes
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Ep 138: Reframing Leadership and Accountability for the AI Era with Dr. Adrian Wolfberg
Dr. Adrian Wolfberg spent four decades in national security, from flying Navy reconnaissance missions to thirty years at the Defense Intelligence Agency, while researching how people and organizations make decisions. He sits down with Bob Pulver to explain why silos and mismatched language have...
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Ep 137: Trading AI Hype for Evidence and Education in Talent Tech with Hayley Skivington
Hayley Skivington began her career in recruitment and has come full circle as Head of Product at Oleeo, where she sits at the intersection of product vision, commercial strategy, and the realities recruiters face every day. In this conversation with Bob, she explains why her role has expanded…
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Ep 136: Measuring Belonging to Strengthen Human Infrastructure with Eric Knauf
Bob sits down with Eric Knauf, founder of BelongHQ and author of The 56% Solution: How Belonging Infrastructure Transforms Performance, who traces his path from studying organizational psychology to leading talent through a company's 55% reduction in force and a historically low employee net...
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Ep 135: Assessing and Evolving Human-Centric AI Readiness with Tracy St.Dic
Tracy St.Dic, VP of Global Talent at Zapier, joins Bob to talk about what it actually takes to build an AI-fluent workforce, drawing on her fifteen years in education, including a stint leading national recruitment at Teach for America, before joining Zapier. She walks through the origin and...
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Ep 134: Unpacking the Psychology Behind AI Success with Dr. Gleb
Bob is joined by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, better known as Dr. Gleb, CEO and founder of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of the new book “The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results”. Drawing on over a hundred consulting projects and thousands of survey responses, Dr. Gleb...
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Ep 133: Empowering Communities and Unlocking Self-Awareness with Anne Descalzo and Rachel Zillner
Bob sits down with Anne Descalzo and Rachel Zillner, co-founders of The RADZ Group, to trace their path from banking colleagues to serial entrepreneurs building a diverse portfolio of companies. Anne and Rachel share what it felt like to step back from the CEO seat at Clutch, the company they…
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Ep 132: Untangling AI Readiness and Prioritizing Workforce Data with Olivier Vidal
Bob sits down with Olivier Vidal, founder of Sightline and a longtime HR tech product leader, for an overdue conversation on AI readiness. They explore why enterprise ambitions for AI so often outpace the underlying data and organizational maturity needed to support them, and how the workforce...
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Ep 131: Scaling Human-Centric AI in Government and Higher Ed with James Regan
James Regan, CEO of Clutch, joins Bob to unpack what he learned leading some of the earliest generative AI deployments inside California state government under Governor Newsom's 2023 executive order. James traces his path from public health in Health and Human Services to Deputy Secretary for...
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Ep 130: Charting Career Reinvention and Prioritizing Responsible AI with Erika Oliver
Bob sits down with Erika Oliver, Founder and Managing Director of NewtonHaus and Executive Analyst at Aptitude Research, for a wide ranging look at where AI is really landing in HR and the workforce. Erika shares her non-linear path through executive search and coaching, an unexpected pivot into...
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Ep 129: Modeling Transparency and Earning Trust in Recruiting with Gerry Crispin
Gerry Crispin, founder of CareerXroads and a five-decade veteran of the talent industry, joins Bob to trace recruiting's evolution from paper resumes and fax machines to today's AI-driven hiring landscape. Gerry reflects on the origins of CareerXroads as a trusted peer community built on open...
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Ep 128: Owning Your AI and Capitalizing on Proprietary Data with Andrew Brooks
Andrew Brooks, CEO and Founder of Contextual.io, joins Bob to trace a career that runs from early-internet consulting through three exits (Seven Space to Sun Microsystems, a marketing company to ReachLocal, and SmartThings to Samsung) before landing on AI. Andrew explains Contextual's "own your…
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Ep 127: Restoring Trust by Advancing Human-Positive AI with KVJ
Katherine von Jan (KVJ), CEO and Co-founder of Tough Day and a longtime innovation leader across Lotus Development, IBM, Salesforce, and multiple startups, joins Bob to trace a career built on one consistent thread: putting culture and human potential at the center of technology. The conversation...
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Ep 126: Aiming AI at Human Bias and True Potential to Succeed with Trent Cotton
Bob catches up with Trent Cotton, Head of Talent Insights and Analyst Relations at iCIMS, for a data-grounded look at why hiring feels so broken right now. Drawing on iCIMS workforce data, Trent unpacks a widening gap between job openings and actual hires, the rise of "job hugging," and…
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Ep 125: Democratizing Coaching and Strengthening Human Agency with Diane Weaver
Bob is joined by Diane Weaver, co-founder and COO of Baryons, who brings a career defined by translation — across languages, disciplines, and roles — to what she describes as the most important problem she has ever worked on: human flourishing in the age of AI. Drawing on her background in…
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Ep 124: Rethinking Content Discovery and Responsible Innovation with Daniel Sieberg
Daniel Sieberg, co-founder and CEO of Screen Genius, joined the show to discuss how his company is building what he calls a universal navigation layer for human curiosity. Coming from over a decade in broadcast journalism followed by six years at Google, Daniel brings a distinctive perspective on...
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Ep 123: Operationalizing Agentic Workforce Intelligence with Noelle London
Noelle London, founder and CEO of Illoominus, returns to Elevate Your AIQ just over a year after her first appearance to chat with Bob about what has changed and what Illoominus has built in response. The conversation covers how decision cycles inside organizations are compressing, why AI…
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Ep 122: Championing Community and the Freelance Future with Yurii Lazaruk
Yurii Lazaruk built a decade-long career in community management before he even knew the profession existed, starting with a grassroots SEO forum in Ukraine and scaling to a 700-person sales conference before co-founding the Freelance Unlocked Conference in Europe. Bob and Yurii explore how...
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Ep 121: Navigating Technology Convergence to Create Sustainable Abundance with David Kilzer
Bob Pulver sits down with David Kilzer, founder of Strategic Transformation Advisors, for a wide-ranging conversation on the convergence of AI and humanoid robotics and what it means for the future of work. Drawing on a career that spans GE, Digital Equipment Corporation, and decades of...
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Ep 120: Inventing the Future of Work with Meg Bear
Meg Bear is an award-winning global executive, board member, advisor, investor, podcaster, and keynote speaker who has taken the stage at TEDx, SXSW, Davos, the World Economic Forum, HR Technology Conference, Unleash, and beyond. As co-host of the Meg and Amy Show and a board advisor at NovaWorks...
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Ep 119: Embracing the Agentic Era and Rethinking the Human Advantage with David Arnoux
Bob Pulver sits down with David Arnoux, co-founder of AI-native venture studio Humanoidz, fractional GTM strategist at HeyArnoux, and community leader of the Gen AI Circle, a global network of nearly 500 heavy AI adopters. David shares a clear-eyed framework for understanding where AI is actually...
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Ep 118: Reimagining Marketing Operations and Owning the Buyer Journey with Lisa Cole
Lisa Cole, Chief Marketing, Product, and AI Officer at 2X and three-time author, joins Bob to explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the B2B marketing function. Lisa shares how 2X, a global marketing-as-a-service firm with 1,400 marketers worldwide, is navigating the shift toward generalist...
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Ep 117: Cultivating Curiosity and Amplifying Human Knowledge with Bob Danna
Bob Danna, physicist, naval officer, former Senior Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting and Bersin by Deloitte, and author of the memoir "My Curious Life," joins host Bob Pulver for a wide-ranging conversation about a lifetime at the frontier of science and technology. Bob traces his journey...
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Ep 116: Evolving the HR Function Through Agentic AI and Human Potential with Laura Maffucci
Bob Pulver sits down with Laura Maffucci, Head of HR at Globalization Partners, for a wide-ranging conversation on AI adoption, global workforce trends, and the evolving role of HR. Laura shares how G-P is deploying its agentic AI product, GIA, both externally for global employment compliance and...
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Ep 115: Humanizing the Hiring Experience and Earning Candidate Trust with Jerry Jao
Bob Pulver is joined by Jerry Jao, CEO of Employ, who brings a perspective shaped by years of building AI-driven consumer personalization before turning that lens on hiring. Jerry shares how he is restructuring Employ for greater agility, how Pillar's interview and screening companions are…
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Ep 114: Redesigning Work and Workforce Strategy for the Agentic Era with Paul Rubenstein
Paul Rubenstein, Chief Evangelist and Talent Strategist at Visier, brings deep expertise in people analytics and workforce strategy to this wide-ranging conversation with Bob Pulver. He introduces a three-curves framework for CHROs navigating AI: the human-machine efficiency frontier, the ROI...
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Ep 113: Leading with Business Strategy to Deliver Sustainable AI Value with Charlene Li
Charlene Li, analyst, author, and disruptive leadership expert, returns to Elevate Your AIQ to discuss with Bob her newly released book Winning with AI, co-authored with Dr. Katia Walsh. Charlene makes the case that most organizations are failing with AI because they treat it as a technology...
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Ep 112: Architecting the Human-AI Partnership to Turn AI Strategy into Results with Oded Dubovsky
Bob Pulver reconnects with former IBM colleague Oded Dubovsky, founder of STRAIX (Strategy for AI Execution), an advisory practice helping organizations adopt AI thoughtfully and effectively. Oded shares a career journey spanning over two decades at IBM Research's Haifa Lab — where he led...
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Ep 111: Building and Managing AI Agents to Shape the Future of Work with Jacob Bank
Bob Pulver sits down with Jacob Bank, Co-founder and CEO of Relay.app, whose career arc — from Stanford's Multi-Agent Systems Lab to founding Timeful (acquired by Google in 2015) to leading Gmail and Google Calendar product teams — represents one of the most continuous threads in AI agent...
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Ep 110: Rewiring Organizations for Human-Centric AI Transformation with Melissa Reeve
Bob Pulver and Melissa Reeve explore AI transformation and organizational design through the lens of Melissa's Hyperadaptive framework. They unpack what it means to become AI native, why most enterprises stumble by neglecting human support structures, and how governance, AI activation hubs, and…
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Ep 109: Championing Human Originality to Accelerate AI Transformation with Jonathan Aberman
Jonathan Aberman — venture capitalist, entrepreneur, educator, and CEO of Hupside — joins Bob Pulver to explore why AI readiness is fundamentally a human potential problem. Hupside's Original Intelligence Quotient (OIQ) provides an objective measurement of human originality relative to AI output,...
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Ep 108: Disrupting Insurance While Designing and Building Responsibly with Juan Garcia
Juan Garcia, co-founder of Tuio, a fully digital insurance company based in Spain, joins Bob to discuss how Tuio is reimagining personal lines insurance for digitally-native consumers long underserved by traditional carriers. Juan shares how Tuio evolved its AI strategy from chasing operational...
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Ep 107: Measuring AI Maturity, ROI, and Organizational Impact with Russ Fradin
Bob Pulver sits down with Russ Fradin, Founder and CEO of Larridin, to explore what it really takes for organizations to move from AI experimentation to measurable impact. They unpack the tension between AI excitement and enterprise reality, focusing on ROI, workforce readiness, responsible...
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Ep 106: Activating Network Intelligence to Unlock Strategic Opportunities with Stephen Messer
Bob Pulver is joined by Stephen Messer, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Collective[i] and Intelligence.com, to explore how collective intelligence, social analytics, and contextual AI are reshaping how business gets done. Stephen challenges the limitations of traditional SaaS and language...
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Ep 105: Transforming High-Volume Hiring for Greater Efficiency and Effectiveness with Dave Vu
Bob sits down with Dave Vu, Co-founder of Ribbon, to explore how AI is reshaping high-volume hiring and the candidate experience. Drawing on his background in recruiting, venture capital, and scaling AI startups, Dave shares why the hiring funnel is breaking under application volume—and how AI...
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Ep 104: Sustaining Human Performance and Wellbeing in an AI Era with Tim Borys
Bob Pulver is joined by Tim Borys, a leader who wears many hats across executive coaching, workplace wellbeing, entrepreneurship, and podcasting. Drawing on Tim’s journey from elite athletics to advising leaders and organizations, the conversation explores sustainable human performance, burnout,...
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Ep 103: Modernizing the Hospitality Experience to Exceed Expectations with Lance Thompson
Bob Pulver welcomes Lance Thompson, President of VIVI, a hospitality-focused AI company formerly known as SAVI. Lance shares his journey from luxury hospitality to tech entrepreneurship, highlighting how VIVI is bringing human-centered design to voice AI. They discuss the evolution of guest...
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Ep 102: Enabling an Intelligent, Efficient, and Human-Centered Hiring Experience with Adam Gordon
In this insightful and forward-looking conversation, Bob Pulver speaks with Adam Gordon, co-founder and CEO of Poetry, about the rise of hiring enablement and how AI can be used to create consistency, speed, and scalability in talent acquisition. Adam reflects on his entrepreneurial journey from...
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Ep 101: Reshaping the Workforce Through Sensemaking and Trusted Talent Intelligence with Vijay Swami
Bob Pulver talks with Vijay Swami, Co-Founder and CEO of Draup, a global leader in AI-powered talent intelligence. Vijay shares his journey from early roles in call center forecasting to founding a management consultancy and then TalentNeuron, later acquired by CEB. With deep roots in data…
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Ep 100: Pulverizing the Journey to Human-Centric AI Readiness with Bob Pulver
In this milestone 100th episode, host Bob Pulver reflects on the journey of Elevate Your AIQ, sharing why he started the podcast, what he's learned from nearly 100 conversations, and what’s ahead for the show and its community. He revisits recurring themes such as AI literacy, responsible...
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Ep 99: Advancing Human-Centered AI and Collaborative Intelligence with Ross Dawson
Bob Pulver sits down with Ross Dawson, world-renowned futurist, serial entrepreneur, and creator of the Humans + AI community. With decades of foresight expertise, Ross shares his evolving vision of human-AI collaboration — from systems-level transformation to individual cognitive augmentation.…
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Ep 98: Empowering an AI-Ready Generation to Learn, Create, and Lead with Jeff Riley
Bob Pulver speaks with Jeff Riley, former Massachusetts Commissioner of Education and Executive Director of Day of AI, a nonprofit launched out of MIT. They explore the urgent need for AI literacy in K-12 education, the responsibilities of educators, parents, and policymakers in the AI era, and…
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Ep 97: Challenging the AI Narrative and Redefining Digital Fluency with Jeff and MJ Pennington
Bob sits down with Jeff Pennington, former Chief Research Informatics Officer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and author of You Teach the Machines, and his daughter Mary Jane (MJ) Pennington, a recent Colby College graduate working in rural healthcare analytics. Jeff and MJ...
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Ep 96: Building Learning Communities for a Responsible Future of Work with Enrique Rubio
Bob Pulver sits down with community builder and HR influencer Enrique Rubio, founder of Hacking HR. Enrique shares his journey from engineering to HR, his time building multiple global communities, and why he ultimately returned “home” to Hacking HR to pursue its mission of democratizing access…
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Ep 95: Confronting the Realities of Successful AI Transformation with Sandra Loughlin
Bob Pulver and Sandra Loughlin explore why most narratives about AI-driven job loss miss the mark and why true productivity gains require deep changes to processes, data, and people—not just new tools. Sandra breaks down the realities of synthetic experts, digital twins, and the limits of current...
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Ep 94: Redefining Recruitment For a More Human-Centric Hiring Experience with Keith Langbo
Bob Pulver speaks with Keith Langbo, CEO and founder of Kelaca, about redefining recruitment in the AI era. Keith shares why he founded Kelaca to prioritize people over process, how core values like kindness and collaboration shape culture, and why trust and choice must be built into AI-powered...
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Ep 93: Strengthening Human Connection to Build Trust in AI-Fueled Transformation with Dan Riley
Bob Pulver talks with Dan Riley, CEO and Co-founder of RADICL, about reshaping work through connection, trust, and clarity. From his roots as a punk rock musician to building Modern Survey and RADICL, Dan shares how creativity, curiosity, and courage fuel his leadership philosophy. Together, they...
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Ep 92: Appreciating the Importance of Self-Awareness to Human-AI Collaboration with Brad Topliff
Bob Pulver talks with creative technologist and entrepreneur Brad Topliff about building more human-centered systems for the AI era. Brad reflects on his nonlinear career—from early work in design and user experience, to many years at data and analytics company TIBCO, to his latest venture,...
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Ep 91: Evolving Candidate Engagement from Conversational AI to Hiring Intelligence with Prem Kumar
Bob Pulver speaks with Prem Kumar, CEO and Co-founder of Humanly.io, about the evolution of hiring technology and the company's transition from a conversational AI tool to a full-fledged AI-powered hiring platform. Prem discusses the impact of Humanly’s recent acquisitions, expansion into…
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Ep 90: Exploring How AI Shifts Our Approach to Content and Authenticity with William Tincup
In this lively and wide-ranging conversation, Bob Pulver welcomes William Tincup, Co-founder of the WRKdefined Podcast Network, HR tech expert, and longtime friend of the show. Together they explore the evolution of podcasting, from its early scrappy days to today’s community-driven, AI-enhanced...
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Ep 89: Navigating the AI Doom Loop to Improve Hiring Outcomes with Dan Chait
Bob Pulver talks with Dan Chait, CEO and co-founder of Greenhouse, about how technology, especially AI, is reshaping the hiring landscape — for better and worse. Dan shares Greenhouse’s origin story and the company’s mission to help every organization become great at hiring through structured,...
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Bob Pulver is helping each of us navigate our respective journeys with artificial intelligence (AI) effectively and responsibly. Bob chats with AI and Future of Work experts, talent and transformation leaders, and practitioners who provide diverse perspectives on how AI is solving real-world challenges and driving responsible innovation.
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