Disambiguation · 2026-07-08 · 46 min
In this episode of the Disambiguation podcast, host Michael Fauscette talks with Jackson Lynch, Founder and President of Talent Sherpa, about why most organizations are not ready for AI agents, not because the technology is lacking but because the work itself was never properly designed. Jackson's thesis: AI does not make a system work, it just reflects how broken the system already was. Faster and at scale. Jackson started in industrial engineering at Boeing on the 777 program, then moved through HR leadership at International Paper, PepsiCo, Nestle, Clearwater Paper, and Sonoma Energy. Now he runs Talent Sherpa as a consigliere for CHROs and CEOs trying to treat human capital as infrastructure rather than overhead. The conversation covers why AI exposes lazy management (vague job descriptions and activity-based metrics worked because humans filled gaps, but agents cannot), activity-based vs.
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