Hi Reader, Last week we released an episode of Built by People Leaders with Greta Stahl, who runs organizational learning and development at Workday. She told me that most companies buy AI tools and then wait for the magic. And the magic doesn't come. And the reason is that "if you're just bolting on tools to old processes, it's not going to help you grow your business." There's research showing only about 27% of organizations have actually embedded AI into their core workflows. Everyone else...

Hi Reader! Daria's here. 93% of people say culture matters to their experience at work. But only 36% feel their culture is well-defined and actually drives anything. The gap widens by level. 77% of C-suite leaders call culture "very important." Among entry-level employees, it's 37%. Leaders are 2.5x more likely to describe their culture as well-defined. So it's not that leaders don't care. They care enormously. It's that culture, as they experience it, isn't reaching the people it's meant...

Hi Reader, When I started my career in L&D, the approach to people development was pretty straightforward. Everyone gets the same leadership course and the same online library. I remember scrolling through Harvard courses, tailor-made company courses of a variety of topics, and thought - how do people know what's really worth their time? Back then, I knew that real development is personal. The challenge was that personal is almost impossible to scale. Building a tailored growth plan for every...