THE CONSEQUENTIAL CHRO:
HR LEADERSHIP PODCAST
HELPING HR EXECUTIVES MOVE BEYOND THE SUPPORT FUNCTION AND BECOME BUSINESS-FIRST — THE RIGHT HAND YOUR CEO CANNOT RUN THE COMPANY WITHOUT.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
JACKSON O. LYNCH
CHRO, Executive Advisor, Founder of Talent Sherpa.
Raising the altitude of human capital to drive enterprise value
Jackson has served as CHRO four times and advised
dozens of clients on aligning people strategy to business outcomes.
Talent Sherpa brings that playbook to SMBs where raising the altitude of human capital is the fastest lever for EBITDA growth and multiple expansion.
SCOTT MORRIS
CEO of PropulsionAI, a workforce intelligence
platform purpose-built for private equity.
Scott spent 20 years as a CPO watching organizations fail to define
what success looks like at the person level. PropulsionAI fixes that
by deploying AI teammates that work directly with managers and
leadership teams to turn strategy into individual accountability.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
STRATEGIC ROI
ON PEOPLE
How to shift from vanity
metrics to outcomes
that drive profit.
BOARD
READY HR
Building CEO trust, bridging the
C-suite, and positioning the
CHRO as a business asset.
BUILDING
SUSTAINABLE CULTURES
From micro-moments of culture
to designing trust, purpose,
and energy rhythms.
AI & THE FUTURE
OF WORK
Exploring technology’s role in hiring, burnout prevention, and
decision-making.
LATEST PODCAST EPISODE
GUEST PODCAST EPISODES
NOBODY CAN FAIL YOUR
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
WITH MARC EFFRON
President, Talent Strategy Group
The only management system in the building.
REDESIGN THE WORK, THEN HIRE
WITH JAMIE JACOBS
Founder & CEO, Gig Talent
Why job and work design
has to come before hiring.
TALENT DILIGENCE IN PRIVATE EQUITY
WITH RHIANA BARR
Founder of Pinnacle Peak HR
How PE firms run human-capital
due diligence on portfolio companies.
YOUR AI QUESTIONS, ON THE RECORD
WITH RHIANA BARR
Founder of Pinnacle Peak HR
AI in HR: what it changes in the people function,
and what it doesn't.
THE DOOM CYCLE OF LOW EXPECTATIONS
WITH TED FORBES
Co-author of "Making HR Matter"
How low expectations quietly cap team performance — and how to reset the bar.
YOUR WORK SYSTEM HAS NO OWNER
WITH PHIL KIRSCHNER
PK Consulting LLC Founder
Who actually owns how work
gets designed inside your company.
YOU ALREADY KNOW IT'S THE WRONG JOB
WITH SCOTT BONTEMPO
Bontempo Advisory Services
Executive role fit, and the cost of
staying in the wrong seat.
PEOPLE FIRST AS AN OPERATING SYSTEM
WITH TONY SARSAM
“People FIrst” CEO
Turning “People first” from a slogan into
an operating system a CEO runs on.
THE ORCHESTRATION LAYER NOBODY DESIGNED
WITH STEPHANIE BIERNBAUM
Ex-McKinsey, Ex-Hines
The org-design layer between strategy
and execution that no one owns.
WHY PERFORMANCE BEATS PEDIGREE
WITH LOU ADLER
Performance-based Hiring Learning Systems CEO
Performance-based hiring
vs. Resumes and pedigree.
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