Talent Economics

CEOs keep funding AI without blinking. HR’s own digital capability ranks 27th of 28 topics tracked.

Achim von Brunn and Vidal Ferreira open BCG and WFPMA’s 7,000-leader survey: 94% of CEOs keep investing with no return in sight, while HR’s capability to run it sits near the bottom. Same cycle. Opposite trajectory.

What you’ll get:

• Why “65% call HR a key enabler” and “27th of 28” are both true at once
• The 3-metric capability score to require before the next AI line item is signed — 90-day clock
• Why the fix isn’t HR’s alone, and who has to co-sign it

Sources:
BCG/WFPMA, Creating People Advantage 2026 — https://www.bcg.com/publications/2026/four-power-moves-for-the-chief-human-resources-officer
BCG AI Radar 2026 — https://www.bcg.com/publications/2026/as-ai-investments-surge-ceos-take-the-lead

Next up: AI’s redesigning jobs faster than leaders are redesigning the teams around them.

Talent Economics — where talent decisions meet business impact.

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Everyone agrees the job has to change. Almost nobody has changed one yet.

74% of Chief People Officers name job design their #1 priority, yet 83% are scaling AI within a year.

Vidal and Achim open with that gap:

- Why "AI Adoption: On Track" measures installation, not redesign

- The 3-part redesign brief to demand before any AI budget is approved

- Why the P&L, not HR alone, owns the redesign

Sources:

WEF, Chief People Officers' Outlook, May 2026

Mercer, Global Talent Trends 2026

McKinsey, The State of AI in 2025

Bain, The Great Talent Recalibration

Talent Economics — where talent decisions meet business impact.

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There's a number nobody talks about in boardrooms: what it costs when your people strategy goes wrong. Here, you leave with a number.

Hosts Vidal Ferreira and Achim von Brunn bring decades of workforce strategy across five continents, and business cases that got funded, not just applauded.

What you will get:

- Two lenses on every decision: Achim asks "what is the financial consequence?" Vidal asks "can this be done by Tuesday morning?"

- Every episode: one question, three verified sources, twelve minutes, one board-ready headline

- Workforce planning economics, AI's P&L impact (not the hype), skills-based organizations, and the return on workforce investment

- No fluff. No filler. No invented numbers.

Take one question with you: what's the gap between your team's capability and what your strategy requires? Put a number on it.

Follow, and send it to anyone deciding on gut feel instead of evidence.

Talent Economics: where talent decisions meet business impact.