foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work

Organizations are investing heavily in AI. Licenses are being purchased, usage is being tracked and employees are being encouraged to experiment. But has the work itself actually changed? In this episode of foHRsight, Mark Edgar speaks with leadership advisor and author Tom Mawhinney about the gap between adopting AI and genuinely redesigning work around what the technology makes possible. Tom argues that the biggest opportunity is not simply to automate existing tasks or reduce headcount. It...

Your organization is investing in AI. People are experimenting, training is happening, productivity tools are everywhere. But is any of it actually making work better? That’s the question at the centre of this episode of foHRsight, as Mark Edgar speaks with Dessalen “Dess” Wood about moving beyond AI activity and toward meaningful AI enablement. Dess argues that the first phase of workplace AI was inevitably messy: organizations were handed transformative technology without a clear playbook f...

AI is moving quickly into HR, but the most important question may not be how much work it can automate. It may be what HR chooses to do with the capacity it creates. In this episode of foHRsight, Mark Edgar speaks with Franco Girimonte about what the next phase of AI means for HR operating models, skills, workforce planning and the role HR needs to play in enterprise AI strategy. Franco shares research from The Hackett Group estimating that by 2030, 43% to 49% of HR roles or activities could ...

We often think resilience is something we discover in the hardest moments. But what if it's actually something we build long before we need it? As work becomes more complex, change accelerates, and cognitive demands continue to rise, many leaders find themselves relying on the same habits that helped them succeed in the past—only to realize they no longer have the capacity they once did. The challenge isn't a lack of capability. It's that resilience is too often treated as an individual trait...

Learning and development has spent decades creating courses, launching platforms, and chasing the next technology trend. But what if the problem isn't the technology at all? As AI reshapes how people access information, many traditional assumptions about workplace learning are being challenged. Employees no longer need to sit through generic training to find answers. They expect learning to be personalized, contextual, and available exactly when they need it. In this episode, Lori Niles-Hofma...

Most leaders today feel stuck in a constant tug-of-war. Push harder for results and risk burnout or focus too much on engagement and worry performance will suffer. But what if that tension exists because we are solving the wrong problem? In this episode of foHRsight, Naomi Titleman Colla sits down with leadership consultant Rachel Cooke to explore a different approach to leadership and work design, one where development, connection, wellbeing, and performance are not competing priorities, but...

AI is accelerating change faster than most organizations are emotionally prepared for. Employees are anxious. Leaders are overwhelmed. And many managers are being asked to guide people through uncertainty without ever being taught how to truly understand human behaviour in the first place. In this episode of the foHRsight podcast, Mark Edgar sits down with organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author Karl Hebenstreit to explore why empathy, emotional intelligence, and self-awarene...

What if the reason your culture isn’t shifting… isn’t your people? For many HR leaders, the pressure is familiar. You hire thoughtfully. You invest in development. You talk about inclusion. And yet, something still doesn’t move. Because the issue isn’t just who is in the organization. It’s what they move through once they’re there. In this episode, Mark Edgar sits down with Celeste Warren to unpack a more pragmatic, and more demanding, view of diversity, equity and inclusion. One that moves b...