McKinsey Talks Talent
Listen in to learn how to navigate a fast-changing business landscape and prepare for the future of work by turning talent into competitive advantage. McKinsey talent experts Brooke Weddle and Bryan Hancock lead discussi...
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- Bryan Hancock4 eps
- Brooke Weddle3 eps
- Lucia Rahilly2 eps
Also: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Carolyn Lee, Suzy Welch, Johanna Carbajal, Father Greg Boyle, Beth Cobert, Jason Wright, Dickie Steele, Svenja Gudell, Jorge Amar, Lucy Pérez, Linda Hill, Kate Smaje, Erik Brynjolfsson
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- 🇺🇸United States · ManagementHOME#8522K to 119K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Management#198.2K to 43K
- 🇮🇳India · Management#345.2K to 28K
- 🇲🇾MY · Management#74.2K to 22K
- 🇧🇪BE · Management#123.3K to 17K
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65K to 344K🎙 Biweekly cadence·46 episodes·Last published 3w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
93K to 491K🇺🇸35%🇦🇺13%🇮🇳8%+20 more - Active Followers
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37K to 196K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 9/29/26 | Leading when change feels threatening | Leaders love to talk about resistance to change, but, as McKinsey research shows, resistance isn’t the full story. Fear of loss is a huge part of transformation, too, when roles, routines, and relationships are meaningfully redefined. On this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, McKinsey Partner Johanne Lavoie shares her latest research on on how leaders can support their teams through times of strain with Senior Partner Brooke Weddle, Partner Bryan Hancock, and Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly. They discuss why leaders who understand fear, rather than punish it, end up with more resilient teams that make sharper decisions and exhibit stronger performance under pressure.See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 32m 38s | ||||||
| 8/26/26 | AI managementperformance management+4 | Kate SmajeBryan Hancock | McKinseyRewired | — | AI agentsperformance management+5 | — | 29m 51s | ||
| 7/31/26 | AI productivitywork redesign+4 | Erik Brynjolfsson | Stanford Digital Economy Lab | — | AIproductivity+5 | — | 30m 32s | ||
| 4/29/26 | innovationleadership+3 | Linda HillBrooke Weddle+2 | Harvard Business SchoolHarvard Business Publishing+1 | — | genius at scaleinnovation+3 | — | 17m 10s | ||
| 3/25/26 | authenticityworkplace culture+3 | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | McKinseyDon’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated (and What to Do Instead) | — | authenticityworkplace+5 | — | 24m 08s | ||
| 2/27/26 | manufacturingtalent shortage+4 | Carolyn Lee | Manufacturing InstituteMcKinsey | US | manufacturingtalent shortage+5 | — | 21m 50s | ||
| 1/29/26 | career developmenthigh performance+4 | Suzy WelchBrooke Weddle+1 | McKinseyHarperCollins+1 | — | career choicesjob uncertainty+4 | — | 24m 17s | ||
| 12/10/25 | leadershipemployment+3 | Johanna CarbajalFather Greg Boyle | Homeboy IndustriesMcKinsey | — | Homeboy Industriesleadership+4 | — | 11m 53s | ||
| 10/29/25 | AItalent pipeline+4 | Beth Cobert | Strada Education FoundationMcKinsey | — | AItalent pipeline+5 | — | 24m 49s | ||
| 9/23/25 | women's sportsbusiness growth+3 | Jason Wright | Project LevelNFL+1 | — | women's sportsbusiness+5 | — | 18m 48s | ||
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| 7/29/25 | operating modelperformance gap+3 | Dickie SteeleBrooke Weddle+2 | McKinsey | — | operating modelperformance+3 | — | 24m 16s | ||
| 6/25/25 | labor market trendsAI transformation+3 | Svenja Gudell | IndeedMcKinsey | — | labor marketAI+3 | — | 26m 10s | ||
| 6/3/25 | future of workAI agents+3 | Jorge Amar | McKinsey | — | AIworkforce+4 | — | 34m 29s | ||
| 3/26/25 | employee healthworkforce productivity+3 | Lucy Pérez | McKinsey Health Institute | — | employee healthworkforce+5 | — | 24m 32s | ||
| 2/6/25 | How to get return to office right | Return to office (RTO) is on the rise. But in the words of McKinsey partner and talent expert Bryan Hancock, “It doesn’t matter where you ask someone to be. What matters is what you do with them once they’re there.” On this episode of , Hancock and McKinsey senior partner Brooke Weddle speak with global editorial director Lucia Rahilly about surprising soon-to-be-published research on the opportunities and challenges of RTO—and about how leaders can make the most of this transition to drive productivity, collaboration, and innovation successfully. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 23m 02s | ||||||
| 12/18/24 | The value of generosity in leadership | Time is finite and leadership pressures are legion, particularly in the throes of change. Nevertheless, the best leaders persist in cultivating generosity with their teams—and they see a range of advantages as a result. On this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, McKinsey leaders and talent experts Brooke Weddle, Bryan Hancock, and Dana Maor speak with global editorial director Lucia Rahilly about why—and how—to invest in generosity at work, as well as about the overarching benefits of shifting to a mindset of abundance, versus one of scarcity, for aspiring leaders.See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 20m 17s | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | What works—and doesn’t—in performance management | New research reveals what employees find fair, what motivates them to perform, and where many organizations go wrong when it comes to feedback, compensation, and annual ratings and reviews. On this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, talent experts Bryan Hancock and Brooke Weddle speak with global editorial director Lucia Rahilly about new research on what drives performance: what motivates employees most, what matters less than you think, and the changes organizations need to make to ensure their feedback, ratings, and review processes are on track.See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 21m 22s | ||||||
| 10/30/24 | Why being in HR is getting tougher—and how to break through | Everybody hurts sometimes, R.E.M. once famously sang. And if you’re in human resources, your job is to help. On this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, McKinsey leaders and talent experts Brooke Weddle and Bryan Hancock join Wendy Miller, McKinsey’s chief people officer for North America, as well as global editorial director Lucia Rahilly, to discuss the dynamics that are making HR tougher than ever—as well as what leaders can do differently to begin turning morale around.See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 23m 51s | ||||||
| 9/13/24 | Understanding what neurodivergent employees need to succeed | Neurodivergent people make up a substantial percentage of the global population. How can companies best put their distinctive capabilities to work? On this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, McKinsey senior partner Brooke Weddle, partner Bryan Hancock, and global editorial director Lucia Rahilly speak with Dr. Lawrence Fung, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Neurodiversity Project, about the productivity and creativity that neurodivergent employees can bring to organizations—and how employers can support them.See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 20m 44s | ||||||
| 7/26/24 | Managing in the era of gen AI | Middle management was already a tough gig. Then generative AI (gen AI) entered the fray. A year after the publication of their book Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work (Harvard Business Review Press, July 2023), McKinsey partners Bryan Hancock and Emily Field join global editorial director Lucia Rahilly to revisit whether and why middle managers matter, what leaders could do differently to make more of the managers on their team, and how gen AI could change middle managers’ jobs—for the better. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 24m 46s | ||||||
| 5/31/24 | Workers wanted: How to fill the skilled-trade shortage | Plumbers, carpenters, builders, and engineers are in short supply. What will it take to meet the demand for these skills in the United States and globally? In this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, Brooke Weddle and Bryan Hancock join host Lucia Rahilly to discuss how to attract—and keep—people in these roles and drive productivity. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 25m 07s | ||||||
| 5/1/24 | Why so many bad bosses still rise to the top | Narcissism. Overconfidence. Low EQ. Why do we persist in selecting for leadership traits that hamper organizational progress—and leave the right potential leaders in the wrong roles? In this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author of Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It) (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2019), joins McKinsey talent leaders Bryan Hancock and Brooke Weddle, as well as global editorial director Lucia Rahilly, to discuss why the traits that propel us to the top seem to diverge so widely from those that make us great leaders—as well as how to choose stronger, more successful, and more diverse candidates for leadership roles. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 26m 17s | ||||||
| 3/29/24 | Rethinking organizational health for the new world of work | Yes, organizational health still drives long-term performance—but the way leaders measure and diagnose health should change, new research shows. McKinsey partners Bryan Hancock and Brooke Weddle join global editorial director Lucia Rahilly to discuss McKinsey’s recently updated Organizational Health Index: how it works, what has changed, and why it’s still among the best predictors of whether your company will thrive over the long term.See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 24m 15s | ||||||
| 2/28/24 | It’s cool to be kind: The value of empathy at work | Empathy: we all aspire to it, but does it really make a performance difference in the workplace? Definitely, according to Jamil Zaki, a research psychologist at Stanford University and author of The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World (Crown, June 2019). In this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, Jamil joins McKinsey talent leaders Bryan Hancock and Brooke Weddle, with global editorial director Lucia Rahilly, to make the case for investing in empathic behavior—for reasons including higher productivity, a stronger workplace culture, and better organizational health—as well as to discuss how to go about cultivating kindness at work.See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | 34m 20s | ||||||
| 1/18/24 | The shape of talent in 2023 and 2024 | Trends like generative AI shaped last year's talent landscape and are poised to redefine its contours in 2024. | 26m 56s | ||||||
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Chart history for McKinsey Talks Talent
Peaked at #7 in MY, top 10 in 1 of 46 tracked markets, currently #7 in MY.
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| India | — | #34 | #34 | — |
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46 placements across 44 markets.
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46 placements across 44 markets.