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...

Hi Reader, For the last few months, I’ve had many conversations with HR leaders and executives about what an AI strategy for their organization should look like. And there’s a paradox running through all of them. Very few CEOs and C-suite leaders rely on their most senior HR leader to unlock the value of agentic AI, even though HR is usually the heaviest user of AI in the building, automating recruitment, onboarding, reporting, and compliance. I wrote about that paradox for the Forbes Coaches...