Workplace Stories by RedThread Research
door Stacia Garr & Dani Johnson
The Key Ingredients for Leadership in L&D’s Next Chapter: Jackie…
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Workplace Stories is a podcast for HR and people leaders who are tired of noise and need clarity that actually holds up. It is hosted by Stacia Garr and Dani Johnson of RedThread Research.
Each episode features candid conversations with practitioners, thinkers, and executives who are navigating real decisions inside complex organizations. Not hypotheticals. Not vendor promises. Real tradeoffs, real experiments, and real lessons learned along the way.
You’ll hear how leaders are making sense of skills, AI, organizational design, and culture when there’s no clear playbook and pressure to show progress is high. The focus is always the same: what’s actually working, what isn’t, and what leaders are doing next.
Workplace Stories helps you make sense of complexity, build credibility with evidence, and move from ideas to action with more confidence.
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- The Key Ingredients for Leadership in L&D’s Next Chapter: Jackie Barefield · 44 min · Aflevering 139Jackie Barefield, Head of Future Capabilities and Operations at BAT, joins us to discuss how L&D is shifting from a traditional cost center to a value-adding, future-focused…
- Cisco’s Cross-Functional Approach to Learning and AI: Marci Paino & Lawrence Stevens · 1 u 4 min · Aflevering 138Building a skills-focused organization isn’t just about creating learning content or adopting the latest technology. As Cisco has shown, the journey to a skills-first culture is…
- ServiceNow's Approach to Skills and Workforce Readiness: Jayney Howson · 1 u 0 min · Aflevering 137The rapid transformation of work, driven by technological acceleration and evolving business needs, is leaving organizations scrambling to keep their employees future ready…
- Pay Transparency and Living Wage Initiatives: Colleen McCreary · 1 u 7 min · Aflevering 136When we think about culture, compensation is rarely at the heart of the conversation. But how organizations approach pay, structure, transparency, and performance ties speaks…
- Making Order Out of Chaos in L&D: Tracie Cantu · 47 min · Aflevering 135In this episode, I welcome Tracie Cantu, Chief Learning Strategist and author of Running L&D Like a Business. We discuss the operational challenges facing today’s L&D teams, the…
- Rethinking DEI Paradigms: Jennifer McCollum · 48 min · Aflevering 134This week on the podcast, we welcome Jennifer McCollum, President and CEO of Catalyst and author of the new book Men at Work: The Roadmap to Gender Partnership. Jennifer shares…
- Why Pulling Beats Pushing in the Modern Workplace: Benjamin Granger · 60 min · Aflevering 133Leadership is often the deciding factor in whether organizations thrive or falter, but the way we lead matters even more. In the latest episode of Workplace Stories, Dr. Benjamin…
- Driving Workforce Agility at Scale: Maryjo Charbonnier · 59 min · Aflevering 132When IBM spun off its infrastructure services business into Kyndryl, it created the largest public company spin in New York Stock Exchange history—launching with 90,000 employees…
- Preparing Students for the AI-Driven Workplace: Michael Noble · 58 min · Aflevering 131Artificial intelligence is transforming not just our workplaces, but the very nature of education and professional development. Our guest this week, Michael Noble, Vice President…
- Three Paths for L&D in the Age of AI: Don Taylor & Egle Vinauskaite · 59 min · Aflevering 130Learning and Development (L&D) is at a crossroads. As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates changes in the workplace, L&D’s traditional stronghold—the creation and curation of…
- Inside Hearst Networks’ Culture and Profit Revolution: Lucy King & Dean Possenniskie · 52 min · Aflevering 129Organizational change is now a constant rather than a phase. Few stories illustrate this better than Hearst Networks’ journey, as shared by Dean Possenniskie, CEO, and Lucy King…
- How McKinsey Is Rewiring L&D for the AI Age: Heather Stefanski · 58 min · Aflevering 128This week on the podcast, we welcome Heather Stefanski, Chief Learning and Development Officer at McKinsey & Company. We explore how organizations like McKinsey are reimagining…
- Challenges and Solutions for Supporting Frontline Teams: JD Dillon · 1 u 4 min · Aflevering 127Frontline workers form the massive, beating heart of the global workforce, constituting up to 80% of all employees. But their enablement, experience, and upward mobility often…
- Transforming Performance Management in the Public Sector: John Barrand · 50 min · Aflevering 126In this episode, we sit down with John Barrand, CHRO for the State of Utah, to discuss an inspiring transformation in public sector performance management. John led a bold effort…
- Designing Future Narratives in a Changing Workplace: Lisa Kay Solomon and Jeffrey Rogers · 53 min · Aflevering 125In this episode, we welcome Lisa Kay Solomon, designer-in-residence at Stanford's d.school and host of the "How We Future" podcast, and Jeffrey Rogers, principal of Learning and…
- How Workplace Culture Shapes Business Success: Ron Storn · 56 min · Aflevering 124This week, we’re sitting down with Ron Storn, Chief People and Culture Officer at Truckstop, to discuss culture—how it forms, who owns it, and how it scales in growing…
- A Culture of Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Jenna Filipkowski · 47 min · Aflevering 123On this episode, we’re with Jenna Filipkowski, the Head of Learning and Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. With a background in organizational psychology and…
- Strategic Workforce Planning: David Edwards · 50 min · Aflevering 122Strategic workforce planning is back, and not in a nostalgic “this trend is back around” kind of way. It is back because the old staffing model, react late, hire fast, hope the…
- Authentic AI Adoption and Cultural Impact: Dessalen Wood · 58 min · Aflevering 121From overcoming initial anxieties through hackathons and playful experiments, to setting an ambitious organizational roadmap for AI, Dessalen Wood shares how Syntax is embedding…
- Five Levels of Becoming AI Native: Melissa Reeve · 50 min · Aflevering 120The way organizations think about artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace has shifted dramatically over the past few years. While early conversations centered on isolated…







