Brandon Hall Group- Excellence at Work

Episode 339: Why Most Companies Can't Prove Their AI Is Working, and How Work Intelligence Closes the Gap

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host Dr. Marline C. Duroseau , Managing Director, HR and Leadership Development at Brandon Hall Group™, talks with Ivan Petrovic , founder and CEO of Insightful , about one of the most pressing challenges facing HR leaders today: proving that AI investment is actually translating into workforce productivity. Petrovic leads Insightful, a platform built around the emerging discipline of work intelligence, helping organizations move beyond simply tracking AI adoption to understanding how work actually gets done. He and Duroseau unpack why so many companies get stuck measuring the wrong things, how shadow AI can double as both a risk and a signal, and what separates organizations turning AI activity into real business outcomes from those still guessing.

Episode 333: Enabling the Frontline: Rethinking Workforce Technology for 2.7 Billion Workers

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host Dave Wentworth , Managing Director for Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group™, talks with Adam Thompson , Chief Product Officer for Confirm , formerly Learning Pool, about the frontline workforce and why the tools, systems and roles built for desk-based employees keep falling short for the 2.7 billion people who never sit at one.

Episode 338: Where Training Costs Really Hide, And Why API-First Platforms Win in the Age of AI

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host Michael Rochelle , Chief Strategy Officer and Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall Group™, talks with J ohn Peebles , CEO of Administrate , about the hidden operational costs buried inside classroom training and the case for judging training technology by how openly it exposes its own data and workflows.

Episode 337: Leadership in the Age of AI: What to Hold, What to Let Go

Rachel Cooke, COO at Brandon Hall Group™, hosts Nicole Gams, Vice President of Talent, Learning and Leadership for the Central Region at BTS, for Brandon Hall Group's Excellence at Work Podcast on what leadership requires now that knowledge and expertise are no longer the differentiator they once were.

Episode 336: HCM's Hall of Shame: Seven Mistakes That Won't Go Away

David Wentworth, Managing Director of Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group™, hosts Mahesh Kumar of TraineryHCM for a frank look at the mistakes that keep showing up in human capital management. Mahesh has spent 15 to 20 years consulting with organizations on HR technology and process, and he brings that experience to a list of seven entrenched problems that persist year after year, along with why they are so hard to break.

EPISODE 335: The Promise of AI in Learning and Development

Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer and Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group™, sits down with Bob Szostak of V2X Professional Services (VPS) for a candid look at where AI stands in learning and development today. Bob brings nearly three decades of industry experience to a conversation that moves past the hype cycle and into what organizations actually need to get right before they scale AI adoption.

Episode 334: Beyond the Scorecard: Why L&D Needs an Evidence System, Not Just Measurement

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work Podcast, host Michael Rochelle , Chief Strategy Officer and Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group™, talks with Steve Lange , General Manager of the Metrics That Matter business unit at Explorance , about a framework Lange unveiled at Explorance World 2026 .

Episode 331: Beyond the Platform: What It Actually Takes to Build a Skills-Driven Organization

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host David Wentworth , Managing Director of Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group™, talks with Melissa Loble , Chief Learning Officer at Instructure , about what it really takes to become a skills-driven organization. Every company says skills are a priority. Far fewer can say what a skill actually means inside their own walls, let alone how it connects to the outcomes leadership cares about. Loble makes the case that no platform, library or borrowed framework does that work for you. Becoming skills-driven is a matter of culture, definition and follow through, and Loble walks through what that looks like in practice, from the executive team down to the individual employee.

Episode 332: Forward Deployment Engineers: The Formula 1 Drivers of the AI Era

Episode 330: Closing the Financial Wellness Gap: What Employers Think They Offer vs. What Employees Actually Feel

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Officer of Brandon Hall Group, sits down with Heidi Grecsek, Managing Director of Human Capital Management at Brandon Hall Group, to unpack one of the most underrated workforce challenges: financial stress. New research points to a stark disconnect. Six in 10 employers believe they support employee financial wellness well. Fewer than three in 10 employees agree. Grecsek walks through why financial stress reaches far beyond absenteeism and productivity, who inside an organization should own the issue and a practical operating model for building a financial wellness strategy that actually changes behavior.