In the 4th episode of Being Human in the Age of AI -- The Coaching Lens, I sit down with Carrie Hollack, founder of CHollack Consulting and a board member of OHUG (the Oracle HCM Users Group), for a wide-ranging conversation that spans career, technology, and coaching.

Carrie shares how she broke into tech right before Y2K with no programming background, found her passion for high-volume retail after cutting her teeth on a failing weekly payroll system, and picked up a "servant leadership" mindset while working at Nordstrom. From there, we dig into what she's working on today — balancing new functionality against decades-old legacy systems that still run mission-critical processes.

We also get into AI and how adoption has exploded in just one year, why built-in AI features from vendors like Oracle are seeing faster adoption than standalone agents, how AI is reshaping (not just eliminating) roles, and the real risks of data being pieced together about all of us — from an old Target pregnancy-prediction story to Amazon's data-driven convenience.

We close out talking about coaching itself: how it opens space for people to think differently during big organizational transformations, why it's not therapy or training, and how a good coach helps people move from fear to possibility.

Connect with Carrie Hollack at chollack dot com. CHollack Consulting | OHUG (Oracle HCM Users Group) board member

Her old job disappeared. Through her determination and creativity, she was chosen for an even better one within the same organization. Anna Seroshtanova — Senior Product Owner at Shell, global executive coach, astrology enthusiast — joins host Deborah Grant to talk career reinvention, AI at work, and what coaching looks like in a fast-changing world. Contact Anna Seroshtanova: here: @ Instagram: @roshtanova_ Linkedin Profile: Anna Seroshtanova: @seroshtanova

"AI Layoffs, Leadership, and the Human Cost of Change" is the title of the second podcast in the new series, "Being Human in the Age of AI - The Coaching Lens," with guest Stuart Ashman.

This week on Being Human in the Age of AI - The Coaching Lens, we welcome guests Veronica Nieto and Stuart Ashman. Produced by Deborah Grant of Grant Global Coaching & Consulting, all three on the show today are Erickson-trained coaches. (erickson.edu) We'll be talking about how AI is affecting all of us, plus share reflections on the multicultural world we are living in these days.