Elevate Your AIQ

Elevate Your AIQ

Bob Pulver is helping each of us navigate our respective journeys with artificial intelligence (AI) effectively and responsibly. Bob chats with AI and Future of Work experts, talent and transformation leaders, and practitioners who provide diverse perspectives on how AI is solving real-world challenges and driving responsible innovation.

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Ep 135: Assessing and Evolving Human-Centric AI Readiness with Tracy St.Dic

September 11, 2026 • 50 mins
Tracy St.Dic, VP of Global Talent at Zapier, joins Bob to talk about what it actually takes to build an AI-fluent workforce, drawing on her fifteen years in education, including a stint leading national recruitment at Teach for America, before joining Zapier. She walks through the origin and evolution of Zapier's AI fluency rubric, the difference between AI adoption and true AI transformation, and why she still rates her own compan...
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Ep 134: Unpacking the Psychology Behind AI Success with Dr. Gleb

September 4, 2026 • 61 mins
Bob is joined by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, better known as Dr. Gleb, CEO and founder of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of the new book “The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results”. Drawing on over a hundred consulting projects and thousands of survey responses, Dr. Gleb explains why roughly 95 percent of AI pilots fail to show ROI, arguing the real obstacle is not the technology but three psychol...
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Ep 133: Empowering Communities and Unlocking Self-Awareness with Anne Descalzo and Rachel Zillner

August 28, 2026 • 55 mins
Bob sits down with Anne Descalzo and Rachel Zillner, co-founders of The RADZ Group, to trace their path from banking colleagues to serial entrepreneurs building a diverse portfolio of companies. Anne and Rachel share what it felt like to step back from the CEO seat at Clutch, the company they built from scratch, and how they grew a venture fund that invests in historically underserved founders. The conversation turns to LQ: Listeni...
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Ep 132: Untangling AI Readiness and Prioritizing Workforce Data with Olivier Vidal

August 21, 2026 • 56 mins
Bob sits down with Olivier Vidal, founder of Sightline and a longtime HR tech product leader, for an overdue conversation on AI readiness. They explore why enterprise ambitions for AI so often outpace the underlying data and organizational maturity needed to support them, and how the workforce dataset is becoming an increasingly strategic asset. The conversation turns to how AI evaluation differs from traditional software testing, ...
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Ep 131: Scaling Human-Centric AI in Government and Higher Ed with James Regan

August 14, 2026 • 53 mins
James Regan, CEO of Clutch, joins Bob to unpack what he learned leading some of the earliest generative AI deployments inside California state government under Governor Newsom's 2023 executive order. James traces his path from public health in Health and Human Services to Deputy Secretary for Workforce Development, and explains how procurement and change management had to be rebuilt to keep pace with AI. He and Bob discuss why redu...
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Ep 130: Charting Career Reinvention and Prioritizing Responsible AI with Erika Oliver

August 7, 2026 • 65 mins
Bob sits down with Erika Oliver, Founder and Managing Director of NewtonHaus and Executive Analyst at Aptitude Research, for a wide ranging look at where AI is really landing in HR and the workforce. Erika shares her non-linear path through executive search and coaching, an unexpected pivot into labor market intelligence, and a moment that reset her priorities and sharpened her focus on the human side of work. The two dig into the ...
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Ep 129: Modeling Transparency and Earning Trust in Recruiting with Gerry Crispin

July 31, 2026 • 53 mins
Gerry Crispin, founder of CareerXroads and a five-decade veteran of the talent industry, joins Bob to trace recruiting's evolution from paper resumes and fax machines to today's AI-driven hiring landscape. Gerry reflects on the origins of CareerXroads as a trusted peer community built on open sharing rather than competition, and explains why he sees knowledge hoarding as a losing strategy for the industry. The conversation turns to...
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Ep 128: Owning Your AI and Capitalizing on Proprietary Data with Andrew Brooks

July 24, 2026 • 60 mins
Andrew Brooks, CEO and Founder of Contextual.io, joins Bob to trace a career that runs from early-internet consulting through three exits (Seven Space to Sun Microsystems, a marketing company to ReachLocal, and SmartThings to Samsung) before landing on AI. Andrew explains Contextual's "own your AI" philosophy, why businesses should design, build, and operate their own systems rather than lock into a single model provider, and how r...
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Ep 127: Restoring Trust by Advancing Human-Positive AI with KVJ

July 17, 2026 • 58 mins
Katherine von Jan (KVJ), CEO and Co-founder of Tough Day and a longtime innovation leader across Lotus Development, IBM, Salesforce, and multiple startups, joins Bob to trace a career built on one consistent thread: putting culture and human potential at the center of technology. The conversation covers the perils of workforce surveillance AI, why "human in the loop" has become a nearly meaningless phrase without real definition, a...
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Ep 126: Aiming AI at Human Bias and True Potential to Succeed with Trent Cotton

July 10, 2026 • 58 mins
Bob catches up with Trent Cotton, Head of Talent Insights and Analyst Relations at iCIMS, for a data-grounded look at why hiring feels so broken right now. Drawing on iCIMS workforce data, Trent unpacks a widening gap between job openings and actual hires, the rise of "job hugging," and application volumes falling below last year. The conversation digs into the real culprit behind entry-level frustration: a decades-old habit of con...
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Ep 125: Democratizing Coaching and Strengthening Human Agency with Diane Weaver

July 3, 2026 • 61 mins
Bob is joined by Diane Weaver, co-founder and COO of Baryons, who brings a career defined by translation — across languages, disciplines, and roles — to what she describes as the most important problem she has ever worked on: human flourishing in the age of AI. Drawing on her background in EdTech, linguistics, and startup leadership, including the founding and acquisition of CourseTune, Diane shares how a post-exit iden...
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Ep 124: Rethinking Content Discovery and Responsible Innovation with Daniel Sieberg

June 26, 2026 • 53 mins
Daniel Sieberg, co-founder and CEO of Screen Genius, joined the show to discuss how his company is building what he calls a universal navigation layer for human curiosity. Coming from over a decade in broadcast journalism followed by six years at Google, Daniel brings a distinctive perspective on how we search, discover, and consume content. Screen Genius started as a B2C streaming guide and pivoted into a B2B discovery-as-a-servic...
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Ep 123: Operationalizing Agentic Workforce Intelligence with Noelle London

June 19, 2026 • 51 mins
Noelle London, founder and CEO of Illoominus, returns to Elevate Your AIQ just over a year after her first appearance to chat with Bob about what has changed and what Illoominus has built in response. The conversation covers how decision cycles inside organizations are compressing, why AI adoption has accelerated but also created new governance risks, and how the gap between individual experimentation and enterprise-ready deploymen...
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Ep 122: Championing Community and the Freelance Future with Yurii Lazaruk

June 12, 2026 • 62 mins
Yurii Lazaruk built a decade-long career in community management before he even knew the profession existed, starting with a grassroots SEO forum in Ukraine and scaling to a 700-person sales conference before co-founding the Freelance Unlocked Conference in Europe. Bob and Yurii explore how freelancers are using AI to function as one-person teams of twenty, while warning that the same tools are eroding the human connections that ma...
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Ep 121: Navigating Technology Convergence to Create Sustainable Abundance with David Kilzer

June 5, 2026 • 49 mins
Bob Pulver sits down with David Kilzer, founder of Strategic Transformation Advisors, for a wide-ranging conversation on the convergence of AI and humanoid robotics and what it means for the future of work. Drawing on a career that spans GE, Digital Equipment Corporation, and decades of entrepreneurial practice, David traces the arc of technology convergence from integrated circuits to the internet to today's AI-powered machines. T...
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Ep 120: Inventing the Future of Work with Meg Bear

May 29, 2026 • 75 mins
Meg Bear is an award-winning global executive, board member, advisor, investor, podcaster, and keynote speaker who has taken the stage at TEDx, SXSW, Davos, the World Economic Forum, HR Technology Conference, Unleash, and beyond. As co-host of the Meg and Amy Show and a board advisor at NovaWorks and Papaya Global, she brings the rare combination of deep operator experience and forward-looking strategic vision that makes this conve...
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Ep 119: Embracing the Agentic Era and Rethinking the Human Advantage with David Arnoux

May 22, 2026 • 59 mins
Bob Pulver sits down with David Arnoux, co-founder of AI-native venture studio Humanoidz, fractional GTM strategist at HeyArnoux, and community leader of the Gen AI Circle, a global network of nearly 500 heavy AI adopters. David shares a clear-eyed framework for understanding where AI is actually taking work, moving from co-intelligence and augmentation through full workflow automation and into the uncomfortable reality of job cate...
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Ep 118: Reimagining Marketing Operations and Owning the Buyer Journey with Lisa Cole

May 15, 2026 • 52 mins
Lisa Cole, Chief Marketing, Product, and AI Officer at 2X and three-time author, joins Bob to explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the B2B marketing function. Lisa shares how 2X, a global marketing-as-a-service firm with 1,400 marketers worldwide, is navigating the shift toward generalist talent, AI-native roles, and human-centered AI adoption. The conversation covers her framework for "brand gravity," the case for keeping str...
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Ep 117: Cultivating Curiosity and Amplifying Human Knowledge with Bob Danna

May 8, 2026 • 58 mins
Bob Danna, physicist, naval officer, former Senior Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting and Bersin by Deloitte, and author of the memoir "My Curious Life," joins host Bob Pulver for a wide-ranging conversation about a lifetime at the frontier of science and technology. Bob traces his journey from slide rules and nuclear reactors to agentic AI, sharing how he and collaborator Joe DiDonato built "Bot-Bob," a digital twin trained ...
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Ep 116: Evolving the HR Function Through Agentic AI and Human Potential with Laura Maffucci

May 1, 2026 • 52 mins
Bob Pulver sits down with Laura Maffucci, Head of HR at Globalization Partners, for a wide-ranging conversation on AI adoption, global workforce trends, and the evolving role of HR. Laura shares how G-P is deploying its agentic AI product, GIA, both externally for global employment compliance and internally as a pilot HR agent, while emphasizing the importance of grounding AI in trusted, expert-sourced data. They explore the growin...
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