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Your AI Questions, On the Record
Jun 25, 2026
1h 07m 07s
McKinsey Said Five Gaps. It's One.
Jun 22, 2026
17m 13s
Wrong Hat, Wrong Moment
Jun 11, 2026
43m 54s
What Nobody Tells New CHROs
Jun 8, 2026
17m 31s
The Doom Cycle of Low Expectations
Jun 4, 2026
55m 20s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/25/26 |  Your AI Questions, On the Record | Send us Fan Mail Most AI rollouts skip the one step that makes everything else work: redesigning the work itself. This episode puts your questions on the record — about AI strategy, your CHRO seat, and whether leadership development is actually doing anything. Jackson Lynch and Scott Morris answer alongside Rihanna Barr, a two-time Chief People Officer now fractional CHRO at Pinnacle Peak HR. She's been in the seat. She knows when an answer is complete and when it just sounds that way. What Y... | 1h 07m 07s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 |  McKinsey Said Five Gaps. It's One. | Send us Fan Mail McKinsey's HR Monitor 2026 mapped five gaps for HR leaders to close. The data is sharp. But their HR strategy prescriptions describe the penthouse to leaders still trying to figure out who's mowing the lawn. This episode breaks down what the report found and why all five gaps are the same altitude problem in disguise. If HR can't make human capital legible to the business, finance and IT will build that system first — and talent becomes a cost line in someone else's spreadshe... | 17m 13s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 |  Wrong Hat, Wrong Moment | Send us Fan Mail A CEO stood on a Fortune stage in May 2026 and said he fired his HR team for creating problems that didn't exist. The loudest cheers came not from the usual HR critics — but from operating executives and senior leaders. That reaction isn't outrage. It's recognition, and it's worth understanding. This episode unpacks what actually drove the Bolt friction — and what it reveals about CHRO strategy, the three-hats framework, and why the HR function becomes the story when the mand... | 43m 54s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 |  What Nobody Tells New CHROs | Send us Fan Mail Nobody tells first-time CHROs what the game actually is. On this episode of The Talent Sherpa, a CHRO podcast for senior HR leaders, Jackson Lynch lays out 10 things he wishes he'd known before sitting in the seat — not frameworks, not best practices, but specific truths that change how you operate. You'll walk away knowing why your mandate is made of assumptions until you write it down and get it challenged; why talent management at the CHRO level means identifying the 5% of... | 17m 31s | ||||||
| 6/4/26 |  The Doom Cycle of Low Expectations | Send us Fan Mail Most CEOs carry a number in their head for what HR is worth. They set it early, from the HR leaders they inherited, and they've run the company on it ever since. That number is probably wrong — and the gap between it and reality is costing them real money. This episode isn't for the HR team. It's for the person they report to. Jackson Lynch and Scott Morris bring in Ted Forbes — former CHRO, co-author of Making HR Matter — to name the mechanism and show the exit. What You'll ... | 55m 20s | ||||||
| 6/1/26 |  Wrong HR Costs More Than No HR | Send us Fan Mail Most growth-stage companies don't have an HR problem. They have a talent architecture problem — and they're trying to solve it with a people operations brief. The HR function runs clean. Handbooks get built. Engagement scores tick up. And the business quietly loses execution speed for months before anyone names what's actually broken. Ben Horowitz argued in 2014 that growth-stage companies need HR earlier than most founders think. He was right. But the harder question isn't w... | 19m 12s | ||||||
| 5/28/26 |  The Ceiling Looks Like Success | Send us Fan Mail Most CHROs are waiting for their CEO to evolve. They're educating upward, building sophisticated frameworks, and assuming CEO awareness is the lever. It's not — and that wait has a cost. Jackson and Scott diagnose the real constraint CHROs keep misidentifying, walk through the K-shaped loops that trap HR leaders in execution or disconnect them entirely, and lay out the terrain read and baby-step method for building a new reinforcing loop the organization can absorb. What Yo... | 49m 03s | ||||||
| 5/25/26 |  Stop Developing HR Leaders | Send us Fan Mail Nearly half of all CHRO appointments in 2024 came from outside the organization. The standard diagnosis: pipelines aren't keeping pace. The standard prescription: build better HR leaders, faster. Both are wrong. The pipeline isn't broken — it's aimed at the wrong destination. In this episode, Jackson Lynch breaks down why external CHRO hire rates keep climbing despite years of development investment, and what organizations need to redesign before the next seat opens. What Y... | 15m 30s | ||||||
| 5/21/26 |  Good HR Is the Problem | Send us Fan Mail Most CHROs believe they are operating strategically. Their calendar tells a different story. Only 12% of HR leaders report spending the majority of their time on enterprise-wide business problems — the rest are managing the function, often without realizing it. Jackson and Scott deliver the actual test: audit your calendar, name your constraints, and have the mandate conversation your CEO has been waiting for. If you've been telling yourself you're strategic, your calendar kn... | 48m 00s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 |  Are OPs Reading the Wrong Signal | Send us Fan Mail Before a deal closes, most operating partners have already formed a talent verdict on the management team. They just haven't said it out loud. The gap between what they've concluded and what the leadership team assumes is exactly where most post-close surprises live. A strong management presentation tells you whether the team can sell the thesis. It doesn't tell you whether the organization can execute it. That distinction — and the design flaw that keeps us from closing it —... | 20m 54s | ||||||
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| 5/14/26 |  Your Work System Has No Owner | Send us Fan Mail The HRBP model is 30 years old. Most organizations changed the title without changing the work — service logic stayed, compliance logic stayed. PwC research shows only 60% of CEOs call their CHRO highly effective, despite years of transformation investment. The capability problem is real. But it's downstream of a design problem most organizations keep skipping. This episode names what's actually broken and builds a frame for what fixes it. Jackson, Scott, and guest Phil Kirsh... | 1h 06m 43s | ||||||
| 5/11/26 |  AI Can't Learn What No One Wrote | Send us Fan Mail Most companies think the hard part of AI adoption is the technology. The organizations further along have hit a different wall: when you try to teach an AI system how your organization actually works, you find out nobody ever wrote that down. This episode breaks down HubSpot's three-stage AI adoption arc and what happens at Stage 3 — where the technology is ready but the organizational foundation isn't. This is where the CHRO has a clear mandate, if they move fast enough to c... | 19m 11s | ||||||
| 5/7/26 |  The ROI Was Never in the Tool | Send us Fan Mail AI tools are live, people are using them, and adoption dashboards are running. Only 29% of organizations are seeing actual ROI. The gap isn't a technology problem — it's a sequencing one. The work that would close it was never done. Jackson Lynch and Scott Morris break down why "deploy the tool, get the result" is structurally false — and what the organizations earning returns are doing differently. If your board is asking what changed, this episode is where to start. What Yo... | 37m 43s | ||||||
| 5/4/26 |  They Know You're Spinning Them | Send us Fan Mail Deloitte cut parental leave in half. Eliminated $50,000 in IVF and surrogacy support. Froze pension accruals. Then framed it as workforce modernization and AI transformation. Employees got the benefit change notice and read every word. This episode is about what it actually costs when the story leadership tells doesn't match what employees live. Not morally — operationally. Because the next time you need the organization to trust an announcement, they'll be evaluating it agai... | 14m 20s | ||||||
| 4/30/26 |  The Order Is the ROI | Send us Fan Mail Global AI investment is crossing $1.3 trillion, and 95% of pilots are delivering no measurable P&L impact. That gap isn't a technology problem — it's a sequencing problem. Jackson and Scott unpack why the money isn't following the results and what the CHRO needs to do about it. Five moves, in order. Get the sequence wrong and no adoption dashboard will save your business case. What You'll Learn Why "we bought the AI module" is not an AI strategy — and why adoption metrics... | 37m 21s | ||||||
| 4/27/26 |  The Hire Nobody's Managing | Send us Fan Mail Most organizations deploy AI agents the same way they used to add contractors — fast, informal, and with almost no accountability structure. Someone in tech identifies the use case, the agent gets deployed, and the first time something goes wrong, the room goes quiet. Nobody owns it. This episode is about what the CHRO's role actually is in the agentic era. Jackson names three structural traps killing AI governance right now — and three concrete plays to claim the ground befo... | 17m 49s | ||||||
| 4/23/26 |  The Clock Started at Close | Send us Fan Mail The moment a PE deal closes, a bet gets made on the inherited CHRO — whether anyone names it or not. In the absence of a named standard, the rational response on both sides creates a loop that costs the exit: the CHRO performs stability, the OP reads it as contribution, and the real assessment never happens until the window for a clean decision has quietly closed. This episode is the briefing neither side gets. Jackson and Scott — a former CHRO with real scar tissue — dismant... | 46m 14s | ||||||
| 4/20/26 |  You're Measuring Feelings. Calling It Strategy. | Send us Fan Mail Most CHROs walk into the CEO's office with one number — the composite engagement score. They benchmark it, trend it, defend it. And every year the same movie plays: high engagement, missed numbers. Low engagement, consistent delivery. The correlation between how people feel about work and whether the organization actually executes is weaker than most HR functions want to admit. And yet, the survey goes out every year. This episode is about a different way to read the exact sa... | 14m 43s | ||||||
| 4/16/26 |  Written to Fail. Posted Anyway. | Send us Fan Mail Most CHRO searches fail before the first candidate is interviewed — not because organizations hire badly, but because the role definition was wrong before anyone walked in the room. The job description isn't neutral. It's a mandate signal. And when it reads like a senior HR generalist profile with "strategic partner" buried in paragraph three, that's exactly what gets hired. Jackson Lynch and Scott Morris, founder of Propulsion AI and former CHRO, walk through the four faulty... | 36m 49s | ||||||
| 4/13/26 |  Why Missed Numbers Hide Talent Gaps | Send us Fan Mail Most earnings call postmortems diagnose the output and miss the constraint. The market was soft. The strategy didn't land. Execution stalled. But execution isn't a force of nature — it's a product of people in roles with the capability, clarity, and mandate to do the work. When results fall short, the question that never gets asked is: where in the talent system did the constraint live? This episode is about the structural traps that keep capability gaps invisible until Q4 — ... | 14m 35s | ||||||
| 4/9/26 |  You Already Know It's the Wrong Job | Send us Fan Mail The CHRO role is one of the most context-dependent jobs in the executive suite. Same title. Completely different work. And most leaders stepping into it for the first time skip the evaluation that actually matters — "am I right for this context, this CEO, this investment thesis, at this moment?" That gap between those two questions is where careers get derailed. This episode is a masterclass in CHRO self-evaluation. Jackson is joined by Scott Morris and Scott Bontempo —... | 56m 19s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 |  The Letter That Changes Everything | Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to the Podcast Most CHROs walk into leadership meetings with data. Clean data. Accurate data. Turnover rates, engagement scores, succession charts, pipeline metrics. The problem isn't the data — it's that the data stops short of the one thing the CEO actually needs: a concluded diagnosis with a name behind it. The CHRO who can describe the talent system is common. The one who can assess it, commit to a view, and stand behind it is not. This episode introduces the An... | 14m 57s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 |  Mandate First. Hire Second. | Send us Fan Mail The most common CHRO failure mode isn't the person — it's the role design that precedes them. CHRO turnover sits at 9%, and 66% of incoming CEOs replace their CHRO. That number doesn't improve because organizations keep finding better candidates. It improves when the mandate is written before the offer letter is signed. In this episode, Jackson and Scott name what usually goes unsaid: CEOs hire for the functional gap, encode the role around operational pain, and two years lat... | 38m 01s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 |  A CHRO’s Playbook For Naming Dysfunction | Send us Fan Mail You've been in the role eight to twelve months. You've done the diagnostic. You know where the talent gaps are, where the succession risk lives, which functions are underperforming and why. But there's another part of the picture — harder to name, harder to act on. Two leaders undercut each other after every meeting. The CEO consistently leaves the room with a different takeaway than everyone else. A business unit has been managing up for years while the numbers underneath th... | 11m 43s | ||||||
| 3/26/26 |  You Don't Have an Accountability Problem | Send us Fan Mail Every leadership team has declared accountability as a cultural priority. Almost none of them are more reliable for it. The word gets dropped in meetings, printed on value slides, and attached to dashboards — and somehow execution is supposed to improve. It doesn't. Because accountability is structurally backward-looking: it names the failure, points at the person, and asks everyone to feel appropriately serious about something that already happened. Jackson and Scott spend t... | 28m 51s | ||||||
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