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On the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green sits down with the senior HR leaders shaping the future of work through HR, data, analytics and digital innovation.

August 4, 2026

Bonus Episode: Your Team's AI Instincts: Why AI Adoption Succeeds or Fails on How You're Wired (with Paul Burgess & Mike Flannagan)

Do you know which of your people are wired to thrive in chaos, and which ones need certainty to do their best work? 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 play.

July 28, 2026

Episode 280: How HR Can Lead AI and Workforce Transformation Across the Enterprise (with Eric Dozier)

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.

July 21, 2026

Episode 279: What Neuroscience Reveals About Making Change Stick (with Travis Hahler)

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.

July 14, 2026

Episode 278: From HR Silos to One Connected People System (with Tony Truong)

Is your HR function organised the way employees actually experience it, or just the way it's always been done? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Tony Truong, VP of People Strategy, Operations, Technology and Analytics at Chime, to unpack why most HR functions are still organised in silos, by specialty, while employees experience work as a series of moments: getting hired, being onboarded, going for a promotion. Tony has spent the last two years closing that gap, rebuilding Chime's people function from the ground up as the company has scaled into a public company.

July 7, 2026

Episode 277: How AI Coaching is Changing Talent Management and Workforce Transformation (with Parker Mitchell)

In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Parker Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Valence, the team behind the AI coaching platform Nadia, to discuss what it really takes for HR to prove value in an increasingly crowded AI market.

June 30, 2026

Episode 276: The Octopus Organisation: How HR Can Make Transformation Stick (with Phil Le-Brun & Jana Werner)

In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Phil Lebrun and Jana Werner, Executives in Residence at Amazon Web Services and authors of The Octopus Organization, to explore why so many transformations fail to stick — and what a more adaptive, human approach to change actually looks like.

June 23, 2026

Bonus Episode: What the Research Really Tells Us About Purpose at Work (With Jessica Zwaan)

Is purpose at work as straightforward as we've made it out to be? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Jessica Zwaan, VP People Strategy and Operations at Leapsome and author of Built for People and Purpose and Work, to explore what the research actually tells us about purpose at work — and what that means for how HR shows up for people.

June 16, 2026

Episode 275: How GSK Built a Skills-Based Organisation in 18 Months (with Zaka Farhat)

How do you rebuild a company's entire capability infrastructure — and fund the transformation through the savings it generates? Zaka Farhat is Global SVP for Talent, Learning, Organisation and Capability Development at GSK, where she leads the company's enterprise-wide skills, learning and capability agenda. In this episode, Zaka shares the full story of how GSK rebuilt its capability infrastructure in 18 months - retiring more than 20 legacy systems, building a single skills and learning ecosystem, and funding the transformation through the savings it generated.

June 9, 2026

Episode 274: Work Intelligence Playbook for CHROs in the AI Era (with Mikaël Wornoo)

How do the world's most forward-thinking organisations use skills intelligence, market intelligence and work intelligence together to stay ahead? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Mik Wornoo, co-founder and President of US at TechWolf, to explore how organisations are using three signals together to build a strategic workforce planning strategy that can keep pace with AI, and what that looks like in practice.