The HR Huddle

Welcome to the HR Huddle, the ultimate resource for all things HR. Cause when the shit goes down, you've got to huddle up. The HR Huddle is comprised of three unique mini-shows: Spilling The Tea On HR Tech — Join Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson as they break down the latest happenings in HR and HR tech. HR We Have a Problem — Join Cliff Stevenson as he tackles the messy stories everyone in human resources has, featuring industry guests working on solving these problems. The Pivot Effect is where followers become leaders. Join Teri Zipper and Susan Richards for the stories, skills, and mindset shifts that get you there.

Episodes

Spilling The Tea on HR Tech- $300M+ in HR Tech Deals, a SHRM Rebrand and the AI Reality Check

October 1, 2026 • 79 mins

HR tech conference season is here, and this week's tea is piping hot. Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson of Sapient Insights Group cover the deals, the debates, and what it all means for your organization. They start with a big round of deal news. Phoenix Education Partners agrees to acquire Fuel50. BoomerangHR raised $12.7M for its solution that tracks and manages former employees. Spott raised $21M for recruiting agency tec...

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HR We Have A Problem: Hallway Truths from NAPEO 2026: The Real State of PEOs

September 25, 2026 • 24 mins

In this special episode of HR We Have a Problem, Cliff Stevenson steps out of the studio and takes you to NAPEO 2026 in Marco Island, Florida, the annual conference of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations. There's no single guest this time, just unfiltered hallway and show-floor conversations with the people building, running and partnering with PEOs. Cliff explores the tipping point ...

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Spilling The Tea On HR Tech: Salesforce Bets Big on HiBob, AI Agents Break Their Own Guardrails, and More HR Tech News

September 17, 2026 • 66 mins

Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson are back with more tea on the biggest HR tech stories of the last two weeks. From a major AI security scare to a $166M investment shakeup, this episode covers a lot of ground on where the HR tech market (and the money) is heading. In this episode: Salesforce leads a $166M investment in HiBob, signaling HiBob’s shift from an HR suite provider to organizational intel...

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The Pivot Effect: From theater, to seminary to corporate boardrooms, Communication is the common thread in Peter Novak's pivots

September 10, 2026 • 35 mins

On this episode of The Pivot Effect, hosts Teri Zipper and Susan Richards sit down with Peter Novak, founder and CEO of Strictly Speaking Group, for a conversation that spans seven years in a Jesuit seminary, a rare doctorate in dramaturgy, twenty-two years teaching at the University of San Francisco, and a second career coaching some of the world's biggest corporations on high-stakes communication. Peter shares how his wind...

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HR We Have A Problem- Igniting Employee Engagement: A Conversation with Mental Fitness Coach Todd Bertsch

September 8, 2026 • 37 mins

Disengagement and burnout have barely budged in decades — Gallup still puts disengagement at 80%+. In this episode, host Cliff Stevenson sits down with mental fitness coach Todd Bertsch to talk about the early warning signs of burnout, why lasting change usually starts with an interruption rather than a pep talk, and a simple mindset shift — from "I have to" to "I get to" — that applies to everything from AI adopt...

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Spilling the Tea on HR Tech- Workday's $43B Buyout Rumor, Remembering Dolly Parton

September 3, 2026 • 88 mins

In this episode, Stacey and Cliff remember Dolly Parton and her legacy as a philanthropist and advocate of workers’ rights and pay equity. In business news: Checkr acquires Truv, Lattice acquires Pando, and Adam Weber launches Helm. Silver Lake reportedly in talks to take Workday private in a $43B deal. Mobley v. Workday hiring discrimination case moves forward with broader scope. Workday deepens its Compa partner...

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Spilling The Tea On HR Tech- A Big Clarity Deal and More AI Chaos

August 20, 2026 • 87 mins

Hosts Stacey Harris, Sapient’s chief research officer and managing partner, and Cliff Stevenson director of research and principal analyst, break down the week's biggest HR Tech news. In this episode: A preview of Sapient Insights Group's research heading into HR Tech 2026 (Oct 19–24), plus a security scare from this week's research roundtables. Deel pushes past $1.5B in annual re...

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The Pivot Effect- From Cleaning Fees to C-Suite Sales: The Wild Career Pivot of Summer Orellano

August 13, 2026 • 35 mins

On this episode of The Pivot Effect, part of Sapient Insights Group's HR Huddle series, hosts Teri Zipper and Susan Richards sit down with Summer Orellano, who now leads sales at Sapient, to talk about her winding career journey from managing Airbnbs in Florida, to joining Sapient as a contract office administrator, to stepping into a sales leadership role while seven months pregnant with her third child. Summer, Teri, and S...

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Spilling The Tea On HR Tech- Governance or Gatekeeping, Leadership Shakeups, and AI’s Moral Crumple Zone

August 12, 2026 • 76 mins

This week on Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson break down a busy news cycle spanning leadership moves in HR tech, emerging AI governance issues, and workforce trends to watch. In this episode: People on the move: SAP SuccessFactors shakes up leadership as part of its AI-focused reorg, Ramco elevates Sandesh Balaji to CEO to accelerate its&nbs...

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HR We Have A Problem- 15Five's CEO on Why AI Should Make Us More Human at Work

July 30, 2026 • 43 mins

Cliff Stevenson sits down with Jeff Smith, CEO of 15Five, to talk AI, performance management, and what it really takes to build trust with employees in the age of automation. 🎙️ In this episode of HR We Have a Problem: 15Five's new Work Context connecting Slack, Teams, Salesforce & GitHub to performance data ️ AI-assisted reviews that turn real workplace "moments" into 80-90%...

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Spilling the Tea on HR Tech: M&As, Potential Loosening of AI Regulations, and Oracle’s Government Win over Workday

July 23, 2026 • 76 mins

Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson break down a scorching week of HR tech news. (Literally it's over 90 degrees everywhere.) On the M&A front, they dig into the Engagedly and Energage merger and what it means for talent management data and discuss a new strategic partnership between HiBob and SLICE to connect HR and fi...

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The Pivot Effect - The Happiness Plan

July 16, 2026 • 36 mins

After years climbing the corporate ladder including stints at Fortune 100 companies and multiple runs in the C-suite as a Chief Marketing Officer Jenn Ravalli hit a wall. No matter how much she achieved, there was no finish line. So, she made the leap: she left it all behind to found Maverick Meridian, a go-to-market strategy firm for companies that dare to be different. In this episode, Jenn joins Teri a...

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Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - Payroll Data, Pay Equity, and the Push for AI Alignment

July 9, 2026 • 60 mins

Payroll data isn't just a compliance checkbox — it's one of the most valuable, real-time data sets an organization has. This week, we talk about why payroll data (unlike predictive data) reflects what's actually happening in your organization, and why that makes it a goldmine for AI-powered payroll applications — a theme that came up again and again during a recent UKG customer meeting. We also dig into Cyndio's acquis...

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HR, We have a Problem: AI in Hiring: Explaining the 'Why

July 2, 2026 • 43 mins

The Future of HR Tech: Trust, Transparency, and Responsible AI AI is changing how HR teams recruit, evaluate, and build trust with candidates — but is the technology keeping up with the ethics? In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Joplin, Chief AI Officer, to unpack what responsible AI actually looks like in practice. Daniel walks us through the real challenges organizations face when adopting AI in HR — from cand...

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Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - Global HR Tech Trends You Can't Miss

June 25, 2026 • 61 mins

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Stacey Harris & Cliff Stevenson dig into the market shifts reshaping how organizations buy, build, and use HR technology. From AI-first HRMS platforms launched by former Workday leaders to global expansion plays from companies like PrismHR, the competitive landscape is moving fast — and the stakes for HR leaders have never been higher. We cover what's actually changing (and...

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The Pivot Effect - How burnout, a pandemic, and a song about self-doubt led to a second career in leadership coaching.

June 18, 2026 • 38 mins

In this episode of The Pivot Effect, hosts Teri Zipper and Susan Richards welcome guest Amy Gerhartz, Founder & Lead Coach of A Higher Way Of Living, as they talk through what it actually looks like to leave a career you built from scratch - and why the hardest part of starting over is often convincing yourself you belong in the new space. Amy highlights the specific fears that came up when she transitioned into coaching and sp...

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Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How gaps in historical data are driving AI errors across women's healthcare, candidate screening, and HR tech decisions.

June 11, 2026 • 46 mins

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson cover several notable moves in the HR tech market, including Betterworks acquiring Rypple and Rod Johnson joining UKG as Chief Revenue Officer, with broader observations about where the performance management and frontline worker markets are heading. The conversation turns to pricing pressure across the industry, with vendors and customers alike strug...

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HR, We Have a Problem - The agentic workforce is here and these are the questions HR leaders must ask before it goes rogue.

June 4, 2026 • 18 mins

In this episode of HR, We Have a Problem, Cliff Stenvenson and guest Sudeep Cherian, VP Product Marketing at Cornerstone dig into what it actually means to bring agentic AI into the workforce technology stack. Sudeep walks through how Cornerstone's updated platform architecture layers a context graph and pre-built agents on top of the learning, talent, and skills infrastructure customers already use, giving those capabilities more ...

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Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - Why unpredictability in AI pricing unpredictability is a big threat to your HR tech budget and what vendors are doing about it.

May 28, 2026 • 54 mins

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Cliff Stevenson and Allison Williams, Director of Research Programs at Sapient Insights Group, Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless, the SDK and MCP server tooling company, and what that consolidation means for organizations building on agentic AI. They also dig into the growing tension around AI cost structures, particularly the unpredictability of usage-based pricing and what that p...

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The Pivot Effect - How to evaluate a job offer using real worker outcome data and what 12 million workers reveal about how you actually get ahead.

May 21, 2026 • 32 mins

In this episode of The Pivot Effect, hosts Teri Zipper and Susan Richards welcome guest Rajiv Chandrasekaran from Where You Work Matters, an independent data project that analyzed real outcomes for 12 million workers across 1,750 employers over five years. Unlike traditional best-places-to-work surveys, this project measures whether companies actually help people advance, earn more, and stay in their roles, broken down by specific ...

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Episodes

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Spilling The Tea On HR Tech: Salesforce Bets Big on HiBob, AI Agents Break Their Own Guardrails, and More HR Tech News

The Pivot Effect: From theater, to seminary to corporate boardrooms, Communication is the common thread in Peter Novak's pivots

HR We Have A Problem- Igniting Employee Engagement: A Conversation with Mental Fitness Coach Todd Bertsch

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech- Workday's $43B Buyout Rumor, Remembering Dolly Parton

Spilling The Tea On HR Tech- A Big Clarity Deal and More AI Chaos

The Pivot Effect- From Cleaning Fees to C-Suite Sales: The Wild Career Pivot of Summer Orellano

Spilling The Tea On HR Tech- Governance or Gatekeeping, Leadership Shakeups, and AI’s Moral Crumple Zone

HR We Have A Problem- 15Five's CEO on Why AI Should Make Us More Human at Work

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech: M&As, Potential Loosening of AI Regulations, and Oracle’s Government Win over Workday

The Pivot Effect - The Happiness Plan

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - Payroll Data, Pay Equity, and the Push for AI Alignment

HR, We have a Problem: AI in Hiring: Explaining the 'Why

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - Global HR Tech Trends You Can't Miss

The Pivot Effect - How burnout, a pandemic, and a song about self-doubt led to a second career in leadership coaching.

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How gaps in historical data are driving AI errors across women's healthcare, candidate screening, and HR tech decisions.

HR, We Have a Problem - The agentic workforce is here and these are the questions HR leaders must ask before it goes rogue.

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - Why unpredictability in AI pricing unpredictability is a big threat to your HR tech budget and what vendors are doing about it.

The Pivot Effect - How to evaluate a job offer using real worker outcome data and what 12 million workers reveal about how you actually get ahead.

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Spilling The Tea on HR Tech- $300M+ in HR Tech Deals, a SHRM Rebrand and the AI Reality Check

HR We Have A Problem: Hallway Truths from NAPEO 2026: The Real State of PEOs