foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work

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The Neuroscience of Leadership, Feedback & AI with Dr. David Rock

2026-11-0539:41

Dr. David Rock, co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute, explains the neuroscience behind the SCARF model and what it means for feedback, hybrid work and AI adoption. Feedback stings. Return-to-office mandates spark pushback. AI rollouts leave employees anxious about their jobs and their skills. What if these reactions aren’t resistance at all, but the brain doing exactly what it was built to do? In this episode of foHRsight, Naomi Titleman Colla speaks with David about his new book, Good...

Managing Up with Mohit Misra

2026-10-2934:37

Your relationship with your boss may be one of the most consequential relationships in your working life. Yet most of us are expected to figure out how to navigate it on our own. What happens when your boss avoids decisions? Micromanages everything? Makes a call you strongly disagree with? Or simply works in a way that clashes with yours? In this episode of foHRsight, Naomi Titleman Colla speaks with Mohit Misra about managing up as a skill, and why employees have more agency in the relations...

How to Redesign Work Around AI with Tom Mawhinney

2026-10-2239:46

Organizations are investing heavily in AI. Licenses are being purchased, usage is being tracked and employees are being encouraged to experiment. But has the work itself actually changed? In this episode of foHRsight, Mark Edgar speaks with leadership advisor and author Tom Mawhinney about the gap between adopting AI and genuinely redesigning work around what the technology makes possible. Tom argues that the biggest opportunity is not simply to automate existing tasks or reduce headcount. It...

The Leadership Shift AI Cannot Make for Us with Gary Bolles

2026-10-1531:10

HR leaders are being asked to help their organizations adapt to AI at extraordinary speed. But what happens when the technology is changing faster than the systems, leadership models and assumptions underneath the way we work? The opportunity is bigger than adopting better tools. In this episode of foHRsight, Naomi Titleman Colla speaks with returning guest Gary Bolles about what it takes to navigate continuous change without losing the humans at the centre of it. They explore why traditional...

HR's Role in AI Enablement with Dessalen Wood

2026-10-0838:56

Your organization is investing in AI. People are experimenting, training is happening, productivity tools are everywhere. But is any of it actually making work better? That’s the question at the centre of this episode of foHRsight, as Mark Edgar speaks with Dessalen “Dess” Wood about moving beyond AI activity and toward meaningful AI enablement. Dess argues that the first phase of workplace AI was inevitably messy: organizations were handed transformative technology without a clear playbook f...

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