About this episode
Laura Maffucci discusses the role of HR in navigating AI-driven change and managing employee concerns.
Implementing AI is different than other types of software. Globalization Partners (G-P) Head of HR Laura Maffucci shares her lessons from navigating an AI mandate, handling employee fear, and building a cross-functional AI governance council. Listen to hear how we transition from informal employee experimentation to structured, agentic workflows that enhance productivity without removing the human in the loop. Key takeaways from the discussion: Why bolting generic AI tools onto existing, broken workflows fails to deliver much results How an internal cross-functional AI council enables employee use The difference between executive perceptions and employee realities Enabling the desired behaviour Being real 00:00 Lessons from early enterprise AI implementation 01:13 Scope of AI deployment at GP 02:17 Managing employee fear of job replacement 04:31 Moving from unstructured to structured automation and the change implications 06:00 The differing implementation needs: deep versus broad 08:41 The failure of bolting on AI 10:43 Purpose-built compliance and agentic data scraping 12:43 Managing shadow AI and workflow fragmentation 13:46 Structuring a corporate AI policy council 15:10…
People in this episode
Guest: Laura Maffucci
Topics covered
- AI implementation
- HR management
- employee engagement
- automation
- governance
Keywords
- AI
- HR
- employee fear
- automation
- governance council
- workflows
- change management
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Globalization Partners
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