AI Without Leaving People Behind with Valerie Capers Workman

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Valerie Capers Workman discusses how to effectively integrate AI into the workforce while ensuring employee engagement and fairness.

What does it take to scale technology without leaving your people behind? Bill Banham sits down with Valerie Capers Workman - CHRO at Empower Pharmacy and author of Quantum Progression - to unpack the real playbook for building an AI-enabled workforce that is faster, fairer, and future-ready. Valerie makes a clear case: human AI collaboration works when employees know exactly what to use and why it matters. Vague tool choices and unspoken fears, says Valerie, stall adoption and deepen inequi...

People in this episode

Host: Bill Banham

Guest: Valerie Capers Workman

Topics covered

• AI collaboration
• workforce development
• technology adoption
• employee engagement
• fairness in AI

Keywords

• AI
• workforce
• technology
• employee engagement
• human collaboration
• fairness
• adoption

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Empower Pharmacy

Books & works: Quantum Progression

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