Category: HRDA Frankly Speaking

HRDA Frankly Speaking: GE Healthcare’s North Star of HR

During her session at SPARK Talent 2025, GE Healthcare’s Head of Talent Programs, Tabitha Wright, asked the audience, not only what they wanted to accomplish, but how. In a rapidly developing world, your business strategy is only as good as the quality of pieces it’s built from. Wright challenges the audience to define their business’ […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: Hyatt Hotel’s Care Over Quickness

During an interview with Carlee Wolfe, Associate Vice President of Leader Development and Organizational Effectiveness at Hyatt Hotels Corporation, she told HR Daily Advisor that the core of Hyatt Hotel’s development is to never move so fast you forget to make decisions with empathy. Before Wolfe’s presentation at SPARK Talent 2025, she hoped that if the […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: Hyatt’s Warning on AI’s Equity Trap

Carlee Wolfe, Associate Vice President of Leader Development and Organizational Effectiveness at Hyatt Hotels Corporation, is sounding the alarm: The future of talent management isn’t just about cool technology—it’s about care and courage. Wolfe argues that rolling out Artificial Intelligence (AI) can’t succeed if the only goal is efficiency. It must be built on a strong foundation […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: Strategy on A Budget According to ADM

In the HR world, there are plenty of professionals and strategists who are able to solve their myriad of issues with bountiful resources. But for most HR professionals, when issues float their way, you can’t cash the same check a Fortune 500 can. Instead, HR professionals can listen to the advice of Sarah Sheffer, Senior […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: AI and The Future of Planning

Behind in workforce planning due to cumbersome manual processes and rapidly changing talent needs? Try AI, Peter Louch advises, to help you with continuous workforce planning. Louch is the founder and CEO of Vemo, Inc., and speaker at SPARK TALENT 2025. Vemo is a leading supplier of cloud-based workforce planning and predictive analytics software and services. Planning who to […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: Stop Taking Orders, Start Building Value

The modern HR and Talent Acquisition leader has a clear, urgent mandate: stop being an order-taker and become a strategic architect of the workforce. The transition from transactional support to proactive business partner is no longer optional—it’s the key to proving HR’s irreplaceable value. This powerful call to action comes from Karen Guzicki, Director of Client Advisory Services […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: Cardinal Group CPO on Human Wisdom vs Artificial Intelligence

The rise of AI has inspired both hope and fear in the workplace. Its ever-changing abilities and the shifting legal landscape leave a lot of workers and HR professionals in a nervous state. While executive leaders search for ways to implement AI as effectively as possible, some still question whether the workforce will become less […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: Portillo’s CPO on Winning Executive Support

The most authentic brand story isn’t told by a marketing team. It’s told by the people who live it every day. That’s the core belief behind Portillo’s Internal Influencer Program, led by Chief People Officer Jill Waite. This new initiative empowers 15 team members to become brand storytellers, capturing genuine, behind-the-scenes content that fuels everything from social […]