Wondering what the future of workforce planning looks like? Interested in exploring the full scope of your organization's skills? Host Matt DeSantis catches up with the folks behind hiQ Labs' latest workforce planning product, Skill Mapper, in an in-depth look at a tool that is helping to answer these questions. First, Amelia Barker, hiQ's Director…

hiQ's Workforce Scientist in Residence and the host of this podcast - Michael Housman - has spent countless hours interviewing other leaders in the space but we decided to turn the tables and interview him in anticipation of his departure from the podcast. Michael shares about how he landed in people analytics, how his training as an Economist colo…

Ian O'Keefe has been involved in people analytic for 15 years across a wide array of organizations. He led people analytics at Sears, joined Google to work on Laszlo Bock's team, and now heads up talent analytics at JP Morgan Chase where he's responsible for 63,000 employees. As such, he's had a unique vantage point from which to observe how differ…

Artificial intelligence is the hot topic that everyone's talking about these days but the term itself is very broad and it touches on predictive analytics, cognitive computing, and even robotics. Regardless of how it's defined, one thing is certain - it's making its way into the workplace through hundreds of different applications, tools, and techn…

Susan Biancani is a Harvard and Stanford graduate, PhD data scientist, and leader of Airbnb's people analytics initiative. Not only is she an incredibly thoughtful and knowledgeable people analytics practitioner but her efforts were profiled by TechCrunch for having doubled the ratio of female members of the data science team. Speaking to Michael H…

hiQ Elevate along with the first-ever Elevation awards were held on October 26th at co-host, Intel’s campus in Santa Clara, CA as the third of hiQ Labs’ 2016 Elevate series. The event recognized some of the most remarkable achievements in people analytics and brought together a wide range of professionals and practitioners to share best practices a…

PepsiCo, Inc. is a lot more than a soft drink company. It's a multi-national company producing a variety of drinks, snacks, and foods with over 260K employees spanning multiple geographies, languages, and cultures. As such, it poses some unique challenges in terms of people analytics and Beverly Tarulli is the person who heads that effort. She come…

Paul Edelman is the managing director and founder of Edelman and Associates - a boutique recruiting company that focuses on people analytics teams - but he's far from your ordinary recruiter. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics from MIT, a PhD in Psychology from Harvard, and over 25 years experience in the space. He joins us on the podcast to…

In his keynote address for the May 2016 Elevate conference in NYC, Chris Gagnon (Solution Partner, McKinsey & Company) provides a bit of historical context around where the HR department sits within the organization and how they can elevate their own standing. He points out that the CFO wasn't always regarded as a critical strategic partner until s…

Zev Eigen, Littler Mendelson's Global Director of Data Analytics, has an unusual background in that he is both an employment attorney and also a data scientist. As such, he's in a unique position to talk about some of the opportunities and the risks posed by some of the cutting edge data science techniques that are increasingly being applied to the…

Eddie Ahmed has a fairly unusual perspective as the CHRO of Mass Mutual because he was trained as a computer scientist. So he naturally thinks very analytically in terms of "if-else statements and infinite loops". What that perspective lends to his current role is the ability to ask probing questions and seek out the answers in unusual places. Eddi…

For this week's episode, we take a trip across the pond with David Green who is a people analytics leader, speaker, and award-winning writer. David has organized dozens of conferences for UK and Europe based people analytics practitioners so he has a unique perspective about how the space has developed overseas and what differences there seem to be…

Josh Bersin is one of the foremost authorities on the ways in which HR is being transformed by technology. This episode is the second half of Josh’s keynote hiQ Elevate NYC in May 2016 where he talked about the place that people analytics will occupy within forward-looking companies, where he expects the space to be within 5 years, and even some of…

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and has been studying labor and personnel economics for well over three decades. He is regarded as one of the most influential scholars on the topic and was named by HR Magazine as one of the top 5 most influential thinkers in management. Dr. Cappelli joins us on t…

As an economist and Mastercard's people analytics leader, Geetanjali Gamel has a somewhat unique approach to people analytics. She knows that all the data science firepower in the world won't get you closer to your goal unless you ask the right questions in the first place. Geetanjali shares her thoughts about asking the right questions, which is e…

SalesForce is the quintessential San Francisco SaaS platform, has a market cap of $55 billion, and an employee population of 19,000 employees. A workforce of this size and diversity poses some challenges in terms of people analytics but their rockstar Senior Director of Employee Success - Ernest Ng - comes on the podcast to share some of his insigh…

In this episode of the People Analytics Podcast, we were lucky enough to have Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte, share his thoughts on the state of HR technology and people analytics. He delivered this keynote at hiQ Elevate in New York in May 2016 and talked about how data was completely disrupting the way we think about organ…

Fortune magazine published an article in March 2016 entitled: "Is Software Better at Managing People Than You Are?" The title is meant to be provocative but it does force us to wonder what role data and algorithms has in developing and managing talent. At the May 2016 Elevate conference in New York City, moderator Michael Housman had the pleasure o…