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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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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April 24, 2026 • 43 mins
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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April 17, 2026 • 54 mins
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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April 10, 2026 • 61 mins
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 value...
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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 conversation...
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March 27, 2026 • 52 mins
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 people managers...
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March 20, 2026 • 52 mins
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 by AI ...
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March 13, 2026 • 56 mins
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 compose teams for...
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March 6, 2026 • 55 mins
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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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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