Capital H Podcast

From exhaustive and lengthy to simple and nimble. There’s a paradigm shift underfoot in Leadership development models. Why? Today’s digital, social enterprises need leaders who are agile, engaged, and connected. Our guest for this episode, Joe Moscola, chief people officer at Northwell will discuss his experience defining and rolling out a new leadership strategy—from strategy and framework to C-suite collaboration and succession planning. Joe will also share his top three "things to get right" when executing a new leadership philosophy.

What is “rebel talent?” Do workers who break the rules make good employees? Do companies that encourage non-conformity perform well? Host Jim Guszcza, Chief Data Scientist for Deloitte Consulting in the US, welcomes Harvard professor Francesca Gino to discuss these questions and her new book, Rebel Talent. Following the interview, join us for a roundtable discussion with Deloitte human capital leaders on such topics as accessing workers with the right capabilities, investing to get internal talent mobility right, and how to begin reinventing the talent acquisition process.

Mergers and acquisitions come with their fair share of challenges—especially during the integration phase. The promise of new talent pools may seem crystal clear during negotiations, but creating a cohesive organizational culture is not so straightforward in practice. How can leaders of merged companies architect reward programs that engage and retain employees? Our guest for this episode is Ben Jackson, the assistant vice president of Health & Welfare Benefits Operations for AT&T.

One bread-and-butter HR function—Talent Acquisition—has seen an explosion in tech tools designed to help source, recruit, and hire the right people faster. But too often, either the human factor gets in the way of sound decision-making or the technology itself lets biases creep in. Join us as our guest, Kate Glazebook, CEO and Co-Founder at Applied, discusses the many, often surprising, ways bias keeps organizations from making the best hiring decisions and how behavioral science is helping them battle back.

Your workforce probably looks very different today than it did 10 years ago. The monolith of full-time, long-term employees is morphing into a dynamic ecosystem of freelancers, contractors, gig workers, and flex-time employees. And this new reality is challenging traditional methods of performance management. Our guest, Jennifer Beihl, senior manager, Performance Development and Culture for GE, helps us explore this new landscape, discussing how GE is strengthening their employer–employee relationship through a performance management transformation.

Leading as a social enterprise is not only about an organization’s role in society but also about how it operates within its own walls, with its own people. Work is an inherently human endeavor, and cultivating this human focus is front and center in social enterprises. This includes things like giving people a sense of purpose and meaning at work, operating ethically, fairly, and transparently, and building teams that foster personal relationships and human connections.

Welcome back to Capital H. In Season 2, we’ll be focusing on a key business imperative from our 2019 Global Human Capital Trends research, which is the need for organizations to reinvent themselves with a human focus. We’ll hear from business and industry leaders of organizations that are navigating the challenges and opportunities – all while focusing on the human element at work.

What does it take to attract, retain, and develop top talent in today’s highly competitive job market? This episode explores how organizations are going above and beyond traditional employee engagement programs to create “simply irresistible” employee experiences. Our guest, Craig Mundy, Vice President of Human Resources, Strategic Business Units for Ingersoll Rand, shares how Ingersoll Rand transformed its employee experience by introducing an integrated career management and rewards system. Get valuable insights from Craig and our Deloitte Human Capital leaders about how to build, align, and evolve your own simply irresistible employee experience.

In this episode, we explore the role of CEO activism in the social enterprise. Today, CEOs are taking a public stand—not just for shareholders but also for employees, customers, the environment, and the communities they serve. Our guest, Nick Aster, founder of TriplePundit, discusses why it’s more important than ever for CEOs to take a stand on social responsibility. How can CEOs effectively navigate the often blurry line between saying enough and saying too much? And what are the risks and rewards they face? Join us as we dig in to the many facets of CEO activism.

Staying ahead of the digital curve requires new ways of thinking and doing—it’s as much about mind-set as it is about the latest technology. And it’s more than making incremental improvements: It’s time to think and act big! We’re joined by Dr. Reza Moussavian, senior vice president of the HR division “Digital & Innovation” at Deutsche Telekom, who will tell us how an enterprise-wide digital transformation and adopting a digital mind-set has infused innovation throughout the company’s culture.