What Leadership Looks Like when Rule Change w/ Keith Ferazzi

Episode notes

This is not a conversation about the future of HR. It’s a conversation about what is already happening inside executive teams, inside HR organizations, and inside companies being reshaped by AI faster than most leaders are willing to admit. In this episode, I sit down with Keith Ferrazzi for a raw, unscripted conversation about power, voice, and transformation at the highest levels of leadership. Keith shares what he’s seeing right now: HR organizations being cut dramatically as “people ops” gets automated, and the CHRO role being forced into a new standard, less compliance and consensus, more disruption, and enterprise leadership. We dig into why HR doesn’t earn influence - it has to take it. We unpack why the real transformation center is shifting to the CHRO - CIO partnership, and why many companies are still treating that relationship like an afterthought. Keith also breaks down the next operating model he’s studying: human - agent pairs. Not teams in the traditional sense but humans working alongside AI agents across procurement, supply chain, and core functions, and what HR must become to support that reality. This episode isn’t theoretical.

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