Designing for Access: How Supply Chain Thinking Can Fix AI + the Talent Gap
About this episode
Sheri Hinish discusses with Yaseen Ahmid how supply chain thinking can address the talent gap and promote inclusivity in hiring practices.
Join Sheri Hinish for the launch of Student Voices, a new curated conversation within the Supply Chain Revolution pod spotlighting standout student and early-career leaders shaping the future of supply chain, sustainability, and innovation. In this debut episode, Sheri sits down with Yaseen Ahmid , founder of Luna , to explore how more human-centered systems can unlock overlooked value in people, communities, and markets. This conversation moves beyond resumes. Yaseen shares why he sees talent access, circular economy, and Africa-centered systems leadership as part of one larger operating philosophy: redesign the flow, restore agency, and build pathways to opportunity that are more inclusive by design. Listeners will hear how Luna responds to an increasingly automated and impersonal hiring landscape, why human judgment still matters in talent development, and how supply chain thinking can help leaders rethink access, resilience, and value creation at scale. Key Insights • Why Yaseen views careers, circularity, and regional development as one connected systems challenge • How Luna was built to restore agency in a job-search process that often feels automated and generic • Why…
People in this episode
Host: Sheri Hinish
Guest: Yaseen Ahmid
Topics covered
- supply chain
- AI
- talent access
- circular economy
- human-centered systems
- innovation
- inclusivity
Keywords
- supply chain
- AI
- talent development
- circular economy
- human judgment
- access
- resilience
- value creation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Luna
Places: Africa
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