Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Today Workday announced the acquisition of Paradox.ai, the pioneer in AI-based conversational recruiting. As I detail in my podcast, this deal could be far more than an addition to Workday’s recruitment offering. It could significantly expand Workday into the front-line worker market, broaden the product portfolio, and deepen Workday’s AI expertise.
Paradox was ... Read more»
The statistics on employee engagement and happiness are shocking. Gallup’s 2025 data shows that only 21% of workers are fully engaged (down 10% from last year), only 27% of managers are engaged (down 11%), 66% of employees are “suffering,” and 8% are “struggling.”
And there’s more distressing news. The 2025 World Happiness Report shows that ... Read more»
Introducing Galileo® for Managers, the leadership guru at the fingertips of every manager.
It’s hard to be a manager: hiring people, setting goals, creating alignment, and coaching can be difficult. And expectations for leaders are high: companies are trimming mid-level leaders every day.
What if you had an AI agent trained on every possible ... Read more»
We’ve now spent years debating the use of AI for human decision-making: who to hire, who to promote, how much to pay someone, and hundreds of other things. Leaders are faced with complex, difficult decisions every day: can we trust AI to make them for us?
I’d suggest the answer is no, and that’s the ... Read more»
This week the White House issued a dynamic, pro-business AI Action Plan focused on “winning the race” for AI supremacy. As I discuss in today’s podcast, this 28 page document details the Government’s comprehensive policies to support infrastructure-building, energy production, and investments in AI across government, the military, commercial businesses, and our own careers.... Read more»
Have you ever wondered where all your personal and professional data goes? Here’s a peek into the multi-billion dollar “people data” market.
One of the most dynamic and important parts of our economy is the marketplace for people data. Every recruiter, location planner, HR executive, economist, university head, and government planner wants to know where ... Read more»
If you think software programming is a techie niche for hoodie-clad coders pounding on keyboards, think again. Welcome to a new era, one where every business leader, HR professional, and even frontline manager is, in effect, a software engineer.
That may sound strange, but stay with me. Because this shift is about empowerment, AI, and ... Read more»
I’m continuously surprised by the hyperbolic articles and comments about AI ruining the job market, the web, or our lives. Yuval Noah Harari believes this is an existential change to humanity. Mark Benioff claims that 30-50% of Salesforce ops is now done by AI. And media sites like The Verge (Nilay Patel) worry that all ... Read more»
Imagine if you knew every task of every worker in your company. With such a database you could quickly make decisions about what to automate, where to centralize work, and what business platforms to buy.
This is the goal of Reejig’s new Work Architecture Platform, launching today. Let me explain.
Just as talent intelligence ... Read more»
This week we launched the culmination of three years of research into the leadership and HR strategies of the world’s leading “Superworker Companies,” the highest performers in their industries.
More than three years ago we started the GWI (Global Workforce Intelligence) project. Using data intelligence from Eightfold, we examined the skills, ... Read more»
This week we launched a bold new course “Reinventing L&D: Join The Revolution,” a comprehensive program filled with information and case studies on the reinvention of corporate learning. Not only is this course essential to training and HR professionals, it’s also a mandate for people with roles in sales enablement, manufacturing training, and ... Read more»
By Kathi Enderes, SVP Research and Global Industry Analyst with comments by Josh Bersin
The Workday Innovation Summit 2025 was more than an analyst meeting: it was a signal that Workday is attempting a full-scale reinvention. Under CEO Carl Eschenbach and Board Chair Aneel Bhusri, Workday is shifting from a product-centric model to an ... Read more»
As many of you know, we believe we’re beginning a massive AI revolution in corporate learning. This revolution will dramatically change what L&D does, how L&D operates, and how the content and coaching market evolves. In this article I’ll update you on the major vendors and give you a roadmap for evolution.
Paradigm Shift: ... Read more»
All of a sudden, there’s a theme and meme that entry-level jobs are going away. Even Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently told Axios that 50% of white collar jobs may go away, leaving us with a 20% unemployment rate. (video interview below)
Okay, let me get my head screwed on straight here, ... Read more»
Today we are excited to launch Galileo Learn™, a revolutionary new platform for corporate learning and professional development.
Originally designed as a major upgrade to The Josh Bersin Academy, Galileo Learn™ is a paradigm-shattering system which leverages AI, the Galileo Agent, and more than 700 new courses and professional development experiences derived from ... Read more»
