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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bob Pulver is joined by Jerry Jao, CEO of Employ, who brings a perspective shaped by years of building AI-driven consumer personalization before turning that lens on hiring. Jerry shares how he is restructuring Employ for greater agility, how Pillar's interview and screening companions are reducing friction for job seekers and recruiters alike, and why the surge in AI-assisted applications is complicating matching on both sides. He...
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Paul Rubenstein, Chief Evangelist and Talent Strategist at Visier, brings deep expertise in people analytics and workforce strategy to this wide-ranging conversation with Bob Pulver. He introduces a three-curves framework for CHROs navigating AI: the human-machine efficiency frontier, the ROI curve, and the humanity index. The discussion explores why workforce planning is having a long-overdue resurgence, and how HR can use AI-powe...
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Charlene Li, analyst, author, and disruptive leadership expert, returns to Elevate Your AIQ to discuss with Bob her newly released book Winning with AI, co-authored with Dr. Katia Walsh. Charlene makes the case that most organizations are failing with AI because they treat it as a technology initiative rather than a strategic one — and lays out a 90-day, 12-step framework for building a foundation that creates real enterprise...
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Bob Pulver reconnects with former IBM colleague Oded Dubovsky, founder of STRAIX (Strategy for AI Execution), an advisory practice helping organizations adopt AI thoughtfully and effectively. Oded shares a career journey spanning over two decades at IBM Research's Haifa Lab — where he led pioneering cognitive computing and computer vision projects — through applied AI work at Intel, and into independent consulting. The ...
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Bob Pulver sits down with Jacob Bank, Co-founder and CEO of Relay.app, whose career arc — from Stanford's Multi-Agent Systems Lab to founding Timeful (acquired by Google in 2015) to leading Gmail and Google Calendar product teams — represents one of the most continuous threads in AI agent development. Jacob frames AI agents not as software to configure, but as employees to hire, coach, and manage, arguing that great peo...
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Bob Pulver and Melissa Reeve explore AI transformation and organizational design through the lens of Melissa's Hyperadaptive framework. They unpack what it means to become AI native, why most enterprises stumble by neglecting human support structures, and how governance, AI activation hubs, and AI leads create always-on learning organizations. The conversation tackles the reinvestment dilemma — what to do with capacity freed ...
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Jonathan Aberman — venture capitalist, entrepreneur, educator, and CEO of Hupside — joins Bob Pulver to explore why AI readiness is fundamentally a human potential problem. Hupside's Original Intelligence Quotient (OIQ) provides an objective measurement of human originality relative to AI output, giving organizations a clear signal of who can thrive in an AI-augmented environment, who needs development, and how to compo...
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Juan Garcia, co-founder of Tuio, a fully digital insurance company based in Spain, joins Bob to discuss how Tuio is reimagining personal lines insurance for digitally-native consumers long underserved by traditional carriers. Juan shares how Tuio evolved its AI strategy from chasing operational efficiency to making smarter decisions across marketing, underwriting, and claims. Tuio built a proprietary AI claims agent that surfaces n...
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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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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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