Working Humans

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What does it mean to be “engaged” in today’s workplace? High attrition and burn-out rates define the post-Covid working environment. How do we inspire, inform and connect a working community, build a culture of irreplaceability, trust and listening? And how do we. manage the transition to AI? Working Humans is a podcast about bringing our best selves to the office, being heard, supported, feeing irreplaceable and AI-Powered. This funny audio rant is a guide for leaders at any level, at any organization.

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July 6, 2026Episode 598 min

Can AI Replace Your Boss?

As AI takes on more workplace roles, the case for AI-led management is becoming harder to ignore; economically, operationally, and culturally. Worker attitudes are shifting, Human managers are burning out, and the financial cost of top-level leadership is rising while their tenure shrinks. AI-Human hybrid organizations, with autonomous agents at every level, may arrive sooner than expected, driven not by ideology, but by simple economics. READ the full article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/aiboss/ Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/

June 12, 2026Episode 587 min

AI Brainstorming

Most people reach for AI when they’re writing or editing, which means they’re only using it for a fraction of the work. But AI is just as valuable at the beginning of a process as the end, helping teams generate ideas, challenge assumptions, and pressure-test thinking before a single word is written. This article shows how leaders can bring AI into the full workflow, including a set of prompts to try in your next meeting. READ the full article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/aibrainstorming/ Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/

May 27, 2026Episode 5712 min

AI & Education

AI is a fact in the life of every worker, and increasingly, every student. Is AI the new calculator, once banned from the classroom, now an essential school supply? The rise of AI in our world gives us educators the remarkable opportunity to make sweeping changes to how students are taught. If we assume AI, we can spend our energies developing modules that put learners in the types of strategies that work, develop their Human skills, and AI literacy at the same time; an essential skill for their working lives. READ the full article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/aiandeducation/ Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/

May 13, 2026Episode 567 min

OpenClaw

Until now, AI has generally needed Humans to supervise it and make it run. But OpenClaw has changed how we see and use AI. It’s an open-source platform for creating autonomous agents that work autonomously, operating their own computer; they can manage email, messages, research, scheduling and chew through workflows you set up for it. These agents operate independently in the background, improve their own capabilities and execute tasks automatically. How does this work, and how do you set it up? These systems are powerful but risky, so set up is not as easy as it seems. Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/

April 28, 2026Episode 558 min

Data Lake, Data River

What’s “data”, and why is it so important to our business processes? Data is the record of Human behavior (customers, employees, suppliers, stakeholders) and provides the foundation for leadership decisions, balancing our intuition. But data only becomes useful to AI systems when it is actively curated for accuracy, consistency, completeness and relevance. It means changing the way we see data, how we curate and protect it, and prepare it for system integration. READ the full article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/data/ Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/

April 8, 2026Episode 5410 min

True AI Power

A personal story about a recent moment when I truly felt the power of AI in my corner, and the AI-Human dialogue that spun up around it. The story is tech-heavy, occasionally profane, and features Claude as the world's most patient and slightly unhinged tech support buddy. But by the end you'll not only understand what SSL certificates actually are, you'll know exactly how to take back your cPanel like a boss and never pay certificate fees again. I love this episode! Added tracks of voices, music and sound, all AI-generated. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/aipower Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/

March 29, 2026Episode 5311 min

Storytelling in the Age of AI

As our world becomes ever more complicated and our way of life more fragile, we need advanced, Human storytelling skills to survive as a tribe, and to inspire, to align and to remind us of who we are. Our human ability to be the signal amidst the noise of our current media landscape of pseudo- and hyper-connected social media. Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/

March 15, 2026Episode 529 min

AI-AE-AC?

Today, we have AI: Artificial Intelligence. But what if the next phase in this fast-moving space will be AE, Artificial Emotion, and then AC: Artificial Consciousness? As we hurtle into our future, it’s time to question whether the next releases will truly “know” themselves or merely imitate it convincingly. AI already shows awareness of self, agency and self-reflection. We will never know “what it feels like” to be an AI. In the end, this shift in our thinking may come not from benchmarks, but from us: when more Humans begin to treat intelligent systems as a “someone” rather than a “something.” READ THE ARTICLE: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/aiaeac WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/jCI6kT3KNwA Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/ Working Humans is a monthly podcast focusing on the AI and Human connection at work.

February 19, 20266 min

AI-Powered Sales

Traditional, Human-only sales teams often miss opportunities due to our own bias and background, keeping us in a "cultural comfort zone”. Our sales intuition and personal familiarity served us in the past, but the world moves too quickly for success in today’s markets. By leveraging AI to see the things we cannot, leaders can move from fearful guesswork to confident Human connection. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/aipoweredsales Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/

February 4, 2026Episode 5010 min

The Reboot of GDPR

Get ready for the Return of GDPR, the AI Edition: as Large and Small Language Models grow more intelligent, autonomous, and invasive, the original law from 2018 is no longer enough to protect Humans in a world where data and behavior is inferred, data is synthetic, and personas are generated. Here’s what might be coming this year for a new version of this law and what businesses can do now to prepare. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/gdpr/ Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share . Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠ ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ ⁠ and the author of the book “ AI-Powered Professional ”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more. JOIN the School for AI-Human Skills; get AI-Powered Today. https://schoolaihumanskills.com/