In this 6 minute interview with Meredith Oakes Director, Development and Training at MVP Health Care, we ask her: • How can L&D provide the proper guidance and tools to help employees work in a world of constant change? • What can the L&D function do to help change the perception that HRBPs are not being strategic enough? • How can people use assessments to drive their own change?

In this 9 minute interview with Joanne Rencher Chief People Officer at Girl Scouts of the USA, we ask her • What does it mean to be a business leader first and an HR leader second? • What areas are ripe for re-skilling or improvement in HR professionals? • What skills can be learned in a HRBP role that can propel someone toward an executive leadership path?

In this 6 minute interview with Marie-Claire Barker Global Chief Talent Officer at MEC Global, we ask her: • How can you utilize the HR function as stewards of your organization’s culture? • With whom must HR collaborate with to ensure creative and innovative talent is brought into the organization to deliver on business objectives? • What advice do you have for people who are moving into a talent management leadership position from a different organization?

Horace McCormick brings his experience in designing effective mentoring programs to this interview where we discuss the important prepatory steps to determine mentoring programs are successful. In addition to an emphasis on the planning stages he details the critical processes for matching and training mentors and mentees.

Most business leaders would agree that managers of people at all levels are essential to building an engaged, high-performing workforce. Unfortunately, the average manager often lacks the training, support, and/or ability necessary to become an effective leader of talent. In this HCI Podcast, Dr. Mark Allen, Ph.D., explains what’s wrong with our approach to the role of manager and how to fix it.

Listen to an interview with Ross Sparkman, Global Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics Leader at GE Aviation as he discusses his upcoming Keynote presentation, "Aligning Strategic Workforce Planning with Business Drivers" which will be featured at HCI’s 2015 Workforce Planning and Talent Strategy Conference.

We sit down with Ian O'Brien to discuss the state of incentives in the modern workplace. What has changed in the last few years? What new opportunities are organizations embracing to take full advantage of technology and workforce data? How can companies leverage incentives to connect employee performance with business goals? Tune in to this podcast to learn more.

Starting with a close inspection of demographic data, Amy Hirsh Robinson explains the changing dynamics for working women and how organizations must adapt in order to maximize the exceptional female talent that many organizations fail to retain or promote effectively.

Julia Pizzi freely admits her belief in the power of assessments as a tool for development and succession planning. In this podcast interview she walks through the steps that her organization has taken to ensure that assessments are a foundational tool to implement throughout each step in the employee lifecycle.