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McKinsey Talks Talent

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McKinsey Talks Talent is a business podcast hosted by McKinsey People & Organizational Performance. It has 43 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

Listen in to learn how to navigate a fast-changing business landscape and prepare for the future of work by turning talent into competitive advantage. McKinsey talent experts Brooke Weddle and Bryan Hancock lead discussions with globally recognized experts and thought leaders on talent, transformational change, and leadership development.

business ·en-US ·43 episodes

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1

The problem with ‘bringing your whole self to work’

2

US manufacturing’s next test: Building a workforce for a new era

3

How smart people end up in the wrong careers

4

What leaders can learn from Homeboy Industries

5

Building a talent pipeline for the AI era

6

Talent wins: the growing business of women’s sports

7

How the right operating model can close your performance gap

8

What the labor market isn’t telling you—yet

9

The future of work is agentic

10

The surprising state of employee health

11

How to get return to office right

12

The value of generosity in leadership

13

What works—and doesn’t—in performance management

14

Why being in HR is getting tougher—and how to break through

15

Understanding what neurodivergent employees need to succeed

16

Managing in the era of gen AI

17

Workers wanted: How to fill the skilled-trade shortage

18

Why so many bad bosses still rise to the top

19

Rethinking organizational health for the new world of work

20

It’s cool to be kind: The value of empathy at work

21

The shape of talent in 2023 and 2024

22

Human-centered AI: The power of putting people first

23

Right skills, right person, right role

24

The future of middle management

25

Making sense of generational stereotypes at work

26

Generative AI and the future of HR

27

Workplace rituals: Recapturing the power of what we’ve lost

28

Talent in a changing market: What now?

29

Quiet quitting and performance management

30

The office of the future: A whole new (floor) plan

31

Stave off attrition with an internal talent marketplace

32

Is worker power on the rise?

33

Talent at a turning point: How people analytics can help

34

How business should move forward in 2022 as the pandemic persists

35

LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace

36

Culture in the hybrid workplace

37

Grabbing hold of the new future of work

38

The elusive inclusive workplace

39

The vanishing middle manager

40

Grief, loss, burnout: Talking about complex feelings at work

41

Today’s skills, tomorrow’s jobs: The reskilling imperative

42

Next-level sales talent: HR’s message to the CEO

43

The new science of talent: From roles to returns

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