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.
Episodes
February 27, 2026 • 54 mins
Bob Pulver sits down with Russ Fradin, Founder and CEO of Larridin, to explore what it really takes for organizations to move from AI experimentation to measurable impact. They unpack the tension between AI excitement and enterprise reality, focusing on ROI, workforce readiness, responsible adoption, and the cultural shifts required to unlock productivity gains. Russ outlines why measurement and visibility are the missing pieces in...
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February 20, 2026 • 61 mins
Bob Pulver is joined by Stephen Messer, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Collective[i] and Intelligence.com, to explore how collective intelligence, social analytics, and contextual AI are reshaping how business gets done. Stephen challenges the limitations of traditional SaaS and language models, arguing that true AI value comes from modeling real-world systems — especially how trust, relationships, and buying decisions actua...
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February 13, 2026 • 49 mins
Bob sits down with Dave Vu, Co-founder of Ribbon, to explore how AI is reshaping high-volume hiring and the candidate experience. Drawing on his background in recruiting, venture capital, and scaling AI startups, Dave shares why the hiring funnel is breaking under application volume—and how AI interviews can help close the gap. They discuss human-in-the-loop design, responsible AI, regulatory trends, bias mitigation, and why transp...
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February 6, 2026 • 50 mins
Bob Pulver is joined by Tim Borys, a leader who wears many hats across executive coaching, workplace wellbeing, entrepreneurship, and podcasting. Drawing on Tim’s journey from elite athletics to advising leaders and organizations, the conversation explores sustainable human performance, burnout, adaptability, and leadership in times of constant change. Together, Bob and Tim examine why human-centric thinking is more critical than e...
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January 30, 2026 • 54 mins
Bob Pulver welcomes Lance Thompson, President of VIVI, a hospitality-focused AI company formerly known as SAVI. Lance shares his journey from luxury hospitality to tech entrepreneurship, highlighting how VIVI is bringing human-centered design to voice AI. They discuss the evolution of guest experiences, the importance of multilingual support, and how AI is being responsibly deployed to reduce friction for both guests and staff. Fro...
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January 23, 2026 • 59 mins
In this insightful and forward-looking conversation, Bob Pulver speaks with Adam Gordon, co-founder and CEO of Poetry, about the rise of hiring enablement and how AI can be used to create consistency, speed, and scalability in talent acquisition. Adam reflects on his entrepreneurial journey from Candidate.ID to Poetry, unpacks the MOLT framework (Marketing, Operations, Learning, Tools), and explains how Poetry integrates AI to supp...
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Ep 101: Reshaping the Workforce Through Sensemaking and Trusted Talent Intelligence with Vijay Swami
January 16, 2026 • 50 mins
Bob Pulver talks with Vijay Swami, Co-Founder and CEO of Draup, a global leader in AI-powered talent intelligence. Vijay shares his journey from early roles in call center forecasting to founding a management consultancy and then TalentNeuron, later acquired by CEB. With deep roots in data science and a vision for empowering internal analytics teams, Vijay built Draup to tackle labor market complexity using advanced AI, unstructure...
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January 14, 2026 • 32 mins
In this milestone 100th episode, host Bob Pulver reflects on the journey of Elevate Your AIQ, sharing why he started the podcast, what he's learned from nearly 100 conversations, and what’s ahead for the show and its community. He revisits recurring themes such as AI literacy, responsible innovation, and human-centric transformation—connecting them to his personal experiences, professional background, and passion for empowering oth...
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December 26, 2025 • 52 mins
Bob Pulver sits down with Ross Dawson, world-renowned futurist, serial entrepreneur, and creator of the Humans + AI community. With decades of foresight expertise, Ross shares his evolving vision of human-AI collaboration — from systems-level transformation to individual cognitive augmentation. The conversation explores why organizations must reframe their approach to talent, capability, and value creation in the age of AI, and how...
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December 19, 2025 • 56 mins
Bob Pulver speaks with Jeff Riley, former Massachusetts Commissioner of Education and Executive Director of Day of AI, a nonprofit launched out of MIT. They explore the urgent need for AI literacy in K-12 education, the responsibilities of educators, parents, and policymakers in the AI era, and how Day of AI is building tools, curricula, and experiences that empower students to engage with AI critically and creatively. Jeff shares ...
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December 12, 2025 • 69 mins
Bob sits down with Jeff Pennington, former Chief Research Informatics Officer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and author of You Teach the Machines, and his daughter Mary Jane (MJ) Pennington, a recent Colby College graduate working in rural healthcare analytics. Jeff and MJ reflect on the real-time impact of AI across generations—from how Gen Z is navigating AI’s influence on learning and careers, to how large ins...
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December 5, 2025 • 54 mins
Bob Pulver sits down with community builder and HR influencer Enrique Rubio, founder of Hacking HR. Enrique shares his journey from engineering to HR, his time building multiple global communities, and why he ultimately returned “home” to Hacking HR to pursue its mission of democratizing access to high-quality learning. Bob and Enrique discuss the explosion of AI programs, the danger of superficial “prompting” education, the urgent...
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November 28, 2025 • 62 mins
Bob Pulver and Sandra Loughlin explore why most narratives about AI-driven job loss miss the mark and why true productivity gains require deep changes to processes, data, and people—not just new tools. Sandra breaks down the realities of synthetic experts, digital twins, and the limits of current enterprise data maturity, while offering a grounded, hopeful view of how humans and AI will evolve together. With clarity and nuance, she...
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November 21, 2025 • 55 mins
Bob Pulver speaks with Keith Langbo, CEO and founder of Kelaca, about redefining recruitment in the AI era. Keith shares why he founded Kelaca to prioritize people over process, how core values like kindness and collaboration shape culture, and why trust and choice must be built into AI-powered recruiting tools. Bob and Keith explore evolving models of hiring, including fractional workforces, agentic systems, and data-informed deci...
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November 14, 2025 • 57 mins
Bob Pulver talks with Dan Riley, CEO and Co-founder of RADICL, about reshaping work through connection, trust, and clarity. From his roots as a punk rock musician to building Modern Survey and RADICL, Dan shares how creativity, curiosity, and courage fuel his leadership philosophy. Together, they explore the balance between human imperfection and technological advancement, why “high tech” must still serve human needs, and how organ...
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November 7, 2025 • 63 mins
Bob Pulver talks with creative technologist and entrepreneur Brad Topliff about building more human-centered systems for the AI era. Brad reflects on his nonlinear career—from early work in design and user experience, to many years at data and analytics company TIBCO, to his latest venture, SelfActual, which helps people and teams cultivate self-awareness, strengths, and alignment. Together, Bob and Brad explore the intersections o...
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October 31, 2025 • 44 mins
Bob Pulver speaks with Prem Kumar, CEO and Co-founder of Humanly.io, about the evolution of hiring technology and the company's transition from a conversational AI tool to a full-fledged AI-powered hiring platform. Prem discusses the impact of Humanly’s recent acquisitions, expansion into post-hire engagement, and how they help employers address challenges in both high-volume and knowledge worker recruiting. Prem emphasizes the nee...
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October 24, 2025 • 58 mins
In this lively and wide-ranging conversation, Bob Pulver welcomes William Tincup, Co-founder of the WRKdefined Podcast Network, HR tech expert, and longtime friend of the show. Together they explore the evolution of podcasting, from its early scrappy days to today’s community-driven, AI-enhanced ecosystem. William shares his philosophy on personal authenticity, the rise of “PSO” — podcast search optimization — and why he believes w...
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October 17, 2025 • 56 mins
Bob Pulver talks with Dan Chait, CEO and co-founder of Greenhouse, about how technology, especially AI, is reshaping the hiring landscape — for better and worse. Dan shares Greenhouse’s origin story and the company’s mission to help every organization become great at hiring through structured, data-driven, and fair processes. Together, they explore the “AI doom loop” of automated applications and AI-written job descriptions, the te...
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October 10, 2025 • 56 mins
Bob Pulver speaks with Agi Garaba, Chief People Officer at UiPath, about the organization’s evolution from robotic process automation (RPA) to agentic AI and how that has impacted people, processes, and culture. Agi shares how HR can lead with a human-centric lens during AI transformation, the importance of AI literacy, and the practical steps UiPath is taking to balance innovation with responsible governance. This conversation ble...
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