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Ai Readiness - The Talent Multiplier, Connecting AI to Business Part 2

Uncategorized Sep 09, 2025
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Ai Readiness - The Talent Multiplier, Connecting AI to Business Part 2
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This session is with Chris McKay and Dr. Jess Conser our Keynote Workshop Team at the Big CHRO Event (part 2 of 2)

Why CHROs Need This:
AI isn’t just streamlining recruiting - it’s redefining the roles of recruiters, HR business partners, and even CHROs. What began as automation is rapidly moving toward fully agentic AI that can orchestrate sourcing, screening, onboarding, and mobility end-to-end. The leaders who stay ahead now will shape how talent is found, developed, and retained in the next decade. The risk isn’t missing the latest tool - it’s failing to reimagine HR’s operating model fast enough.

What You’ll Learn:

  • How agentic AI will shift HR from process execution to orchestration and oversight.

  • What AI-native onboarding could look like - personalized pre-boarding, digital coaches, and seamless day-one engagement.

  • Why skills-based taxonomies (Eightfold, Gloat, Beemery) will replace static succession plans and nine-box grids.

  • The organizational risks CHROs must manage - fr...
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AI Readiness Seeing the System, Beyond the Hype Part 1

Uncategorized Sep 09, 2025
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AI Readiness Seeing the System, Beyond the Hype Part 1
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After our recent Members-Only Mastermind session with Chris McKay and Jessica—who are also keynote speakers for the Big CHRO Event—I asked ChatGPT a simple question:

“What part of this talk was truly unique
 the kind of insight our members couldn’t just find on the internet?”

The response was đŸ”„. Here's what it said:

🔐 1. Agentic AI as a Workforce Redesign Imperative

Chris didn’t just explain agentic AI—he reframed it as a new type of workforce HR must learn to hire, onboard, manage, and offboard.

“Most AI talks treat AI as a tool. This session treated AI as a new kind of talent CHROs will be responsible for—alongside humans.”

🧠 2. The Cost of Intelligence Is Going to Zero

Chris dropped a bold statement: intelligence is no longer your differentiator—clarity is.

“Everyone will have access to top-tier AI. What sets your org apart? Your data, your context, and your people.”

📊 3. An AI Maturity Model Built for HR

Chris and Jessica introduced a 5-level AI maturity bench...

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Be the AI Leader, Not the Fast Follower

Uncategorized Sep 07, 2025

 

Part 5 of 5 in The CHRO’s Reframe series
Designing Human-AI Collaboration That Competitors Can’t Copy

Welcome to Week 5 of this five-part series on the big conversations every CHRO should be leading around AI.

If you’ve made it this far, you know what’s at stake. You’ve assessed risk, evolved your workforce, managed governance, and reframed investment strategy.

Now it’s time to lead at the highest level, by designing how people and AI work together across the business.

Because here’s the truth: Everyone’s talking about AI tools. But the companies that win will be the ones that design collaborative systems their competitors can’t replicate.

This is where CHROs stop reacting and start reshaping how the business works.


 

đŸ”č Domain 5: Strategic Leadership in the AI-Transformed Business Landscape

AI will change how every decision gets made, how every employee spends their time, and how fast your business responds to the market.

The following questions help you lead from a system...

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ROI or Vanity Spend? How CHROs Can Turn AI Investment Into Real Business Impact

Uncategorized Aug 31, 2025

Part 4 of 5 in The CHRO’s Reframe series
Strategic Questions That Reframe Capability as Competitive Edge

Welcome to Week 4 in this five-part series on the big conversations every CHRO should be driving around AI.

So far, we’ve covered AI risk, workforce transformation, and governance.

This week, we tackle the question you may already be getting in boardrooms and ELT meetings:

“We’ve spent all this money on AI, where’s the ROI?”

Here’s the hard truth: most companies are overspending on tools and underspending on the people and processes that actually deliver value.

The shift? Position AI investment as a capability strategy, one that builds a moat competitors can’t easily cross, instead of just another tech upgrade.


 

đŸ”č Domain 4: AI Investment Strategy and Business Value Creation

The real value of AI doesn’t come from software. It comes from how your people use it to solve problems no one else can.

These three questions can help you reframe AI spend so your CEO sees it as a c...

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Guardrails Before Headlines: CHROs as the First Line of AI Risk Defense

Uncategorized Aug 31, 2025

Part 3 of 5 in The CHRO’s Reframe Series
How to Protect Enterprise Value While Moving Fast

We are in Week 3 of this five-part series on the big AI conversations every CHRO should be leading.

So far, we have covered how to assess AI risk and value across the business, and how to lead strategic workforce transformation.

This week’s focus is AI risk, governance, and competitive intelligence.

If your AI strategy creates lawsuits or brand damage, you do not have a strategy. You have a liability.

Most executive teams are nervous about what AI might break. Your opportunity is to lead with guardrails that build trust, reduce friction, and help the business move faster, not slower.


đŸ”č Domain 3: Enterprise AI Risk Management and Competitive Intelligence

When done right, risk leadership earns trust from your CEO, your customers, and your employees.

It also positions HR as the protector of enterprise value and the enabler of smart, fast growth.

Here are three questions to drive that conv...

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Leading in the AI era: A CHRO’s portfolio approach to real business value

Uncategorized Aug 20, 2025
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Leading in the AI era: A CHRO’s portfolio approach to real business value
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Course Title:

Leading in the AI era: A CHRO’s portfolio approach to real business value

Why CHROs Need This

AI isn’t just a technology shift - it’s a leadership moment. But many CHROs are stuck managing disconnected pilots and vendor-driven experiments that don’t scale or deliver clear value. In this session, your digital co-hosts from CHRO Partners Ian and Alex unpack how CHROs can lead AI adoption with confidence - by using a portfolio approach that connects AI investments to employee experience, operational efficiency, and future innovation.

 

What You’ll Learn (and Why It Matters to CHROs):

  • The AI Sandwich - Explained.
    Understand the full stack: embedded tools, custom builds, and the all-important trust layer. 

Why it matters: without a framework, AI investments fragment fast - and CHROs lose influence over adoption and impact.

  • Three Returns That Actually Matter.
    Get clear on Return on Employee (ROE), Return on Investment (ROI), and Return on Future (ROF) - a...
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The Talent Advantage Playbook: Transform Your Workforce Before AI Replaces It

Uncategorized Aug 18, 2025

Part 2 of 5 in The CHRO’s Reframe series How CHROs Can Design Roles, Pipelines & Strategy Around Human Value

Welcome back to Week 2 of this five-part series on the biggest AI conversations CHROs need to lead right now.

Last week, we looked at how to assess where AI is already creating risk or value in your organization, often without any formal oversight.

This week, we shift to what may be your biggest leadership opportunity: shaping how your workforce evolves in the age of AI.

Let’s be honest, there’s pressure to cut. But the companies that will win? They’re the ones upskilling, redeploying, and redefining human advantage. That starts with you.


 

đŸ”č Domain 2: Strategic Workforce Transformation for Business Advantage

AI is already changing the work your people do. Your job is to make sure it doesn’t just reduce headcount, it increases value.

Here are the three questions every CHRO should be asking now:


 

1. What’s our strategic approach to capturing and leveraging institut...

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The CHRO’s Reframe: Lead the AI Transformation Without Chasing Every New Tool

The CHRO’s Reframe: Lead the AI Transformation Without Chasing Every New Tool

Part 1 of 5: 19 Power Questions That Turn Curiosity into Business Strategy

Over the next five weeks, I’m breaking down the five big conversations every CHRO should be leading in this AI era. These questions come from months of research, expert interviews, and insights from the CHRO Mastermind community and our events.

Not the “here’s another tool to test” conversations.
Not the “IT has it covered” conversations.

I’m talking about the boardroom, C-suite, and offsite-level questions that actually shape how AI will transform your business.


Here’s what’s coming

↳Enterprise AI Risk & Opportunity Assessment
What’s already happening with AI in your company (spoiler: it’s more than you think) and how to turn it into advantage.

↳Strategic Workforce Transformation for Business Advantage
Using AI to make your people more valuable, not just replace them.

↳Enterprise AI Risk Management & Competitive Intelligence...

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The real risk isn’t falling behind on AI - it's staying silent

Uncategorized Aug 03, 2025

Here's what most CHROs are getting wrong (and how to fix it in 25 mins)

 


 

The wrong question:

“Where do we start with AI?”

The better question:

“What business problem are we trying to solve?”

 


Most CHROs I talk to don’t have a tech problem.
They have a clarity problem.

They’re being asked about AI at the executive table
 but haven’t been given the time or tools to go beyond “We’re exploring it.”


So what happens?

  • Panels and webinars stack up in your inbox

  • Demos blur together

  • Meanwhile, your peers start dropping phrases like “agentic AI” and “internal copilots” like they’ve had this figured out for months


"It feels like the early days of the pandemic again."
Lots of noise. Little clarity.
And no one’s handing you the playbook.


Which is exactly why I built this.


Here’s the truth:

↳ You don’t need to be technical.
↳ You do need to be fluent.


"Fluent in what’s possible. Fluent in the business implications. Fluent in how to guide a t...

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What CHROs Need to Know About AI (Before IT Leaves You Behind)

Uncategorized Jul 27, 2025

In this Mastermind session, Jessica and Chris McKay cut through the AI noise and show why HR—not IT—should be leading the conversation.

They didn’t just demo tools. They reframed what it means to be a strategic HR leader in the age of agentic AI—where digital coworkers are real, and the cost of intelligence is rapidly approaching zero.

Key takeaways:

  • Agentic AI is no longer theoretical. It’s already reshaping how businesses scale—without adding headcount.

  • CHROs must now manage both human and AI “employees”—from onboarding to offboarding.

  • The true differentiator in the AI era won’t be who has the smartest tools—it’s who has the most clarity around people, data, and business context.

  • AI fluency and governance are fast becoming HR's strategic edge.

  • Chris introduced the USAGE framework and a maturity model to help HR teams benchmark and guide adoption.

Why this matters now:
If HR isn't shaping how AI enters the workforce, someone else will. And chances are, they won't be thinki...

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