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Author: Robert "Bo" Brabo and Luke Carignan

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Healthcare runs on people. The ASHHRA Podcast is where the leaders responsible for those people come to think out loud.

As the official podcast of ASHHRA (the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration), this show has built a library of 250+ episodes for one audience: the CHROs, CPOs, VPs, and directors leading the healthcare workforce.

Every week, hosts Bo Brabo and Luke Carignan sit down with the executives doing the hard work inside hospitals and health systems. Past guests include leaders from AdventHealth, Universal Health Services, Advocate Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and UC Health. These are unscripted, practitioner-to-practitioner conversations about what actually works, what didn't, and what they'd do differently.

WHAT WE COVER
Workforce shortages and retention. Leader and caregiver burnout. Culture and identity. Labor relations. Total rewards and benefits strategy. AI and HR technology. Policy and regulatory shifts. The people decisions that shape patient care.

TWO WAYS TO LISTEN
The Weekly News Drop: the week's most important healthcare HR headlines, what they mean for your organization, and what to do about them on Monday morning.
Guest Conversations: deep dives with the leaders solving real workforce problems right now.

MEET YOUR HOSTS
Bo Brabo is Vice President of People Solutions (Healthcare) at Lockton and a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer who served as a Soldier for ten years at the White House, including as a Presidential Communications Officer for two Presidents. Luke Carignan is Strategic Director of Healthcare at Phenom and brings the story behind the strategy. Together they're optimistic but honest, and warm but never soft.

If you lead HR for a health system, shape workforce strategy, or influence culture anywhere in healthcare, this is your briefing. No theory. No fluff. Just leaders in the arena, sharing what they've learned.

Subscribe, share it with your team, and join the conversation at ashhra.org.

263 Episodes
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Luke Carignan and ASHHRA CEO Jeremy Sadlier close out October with three costs health systems already pay without naming them. Each one eats margin and morale, and each ends on a decision that sits with HR. 💵 Pay Compression Is a Fairness Problem First Nurse.org's 2026 salary survey of 3,758 nurses: 93% say pay is not keeping up with inflation and workload, and 23% say they are underpaid compared with new hires. Mercer's 2026 planning data puts healthcare merit increases at 2.9%, tied for the...
Luke is on the road, so Bo sits down with ASHHRA Executive Director and CEO Jeremy Sadlier for a different kind of Weekly News Drop: the news is ASHHRA's own. Registration for ASHHRA27 is open, and the two of them walk through what the conference will feel like and how the ASHHRA Preferred Partner Program is built to lower what healthcare HR pays for everything it buys. 🤠 One Campus, Everybody You Meet Is ASHHRA ASHHRA27 runs May 16-18, 2027 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country, with s...
Featuring Romy Newman, VP of Talent Ecosystem, CLASP Disclosure: CLASP is a sponsor of The ASHHRA Podcast. Bo opens with a question from his Army years. What if every recruit paid for basic training up front and the Army just hoped they stayed? That is close to how the United States trains clinicians. Romy Newman co-founded Fairy Godboss, ran digital ad sales at the Wall Street Journal, and now leads talent ecosystem at CLASP, which connects health systems to clinical students before graduati...
Featuring Jeff Battinus, VP of Talent Attraction and Selection, ChenMed, and Yaniv Shimoni, Co-Founder, Take2 Disclosure: Take2 is a sponsor of The ASHHRA Podcast. Twenty-two years in healthcare recruiting, and Jeff Battinus says his career is changing in front of his face. He joins Bo with Take2 co-founder Yaniv Shimoni to separate real agentic AI from the version that is a sticker on an old process. 🤖 Agent or Bumper Sticker Battinus's test is blunt. Most of the big vendors, he argues, bolt...
Bo and Jeremy are back from the ASHHRA Executive Summit in Savannah, Luke held the fort, and the three of them land on one theme: the systems that win are not doing anything magical. They are deciding earlier than everyone else. 💊 The GLP-1 Decision You Cannot Keep Deferring One in eight American adults is on a GLP-1 right now, per KFF. IFEBP's June 2026 pulse survey puts employer coverage for weight loss at 36%, and 19% of employers have already dropped it. Jeremy's read from the summit: can...
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