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Hosted by Rebecca Taylor · business · EN
HR Voices is a scenario-based podcast for People Leaders who’ve actually had to make the call. Each episode brings experienced HR and People leaders into realistic, anonymized workplace scenarios—the kind you recognize immediately. Performance issues. Messy conflicts. Investigations that don’t fit neatly into a policy box. Instead of talking about their own companies, guests react to outside cases and walk through how they’d think it through in real time. There are no right answers here. What you’ll hear is judgment: how seasoned leaders balance risk, fairness, legal reality, and humanity when the stakes are high and the path isn’t obvious. HR Voices is for HR, People Ops, legal, and leaders who want to hear how other smart humans actually handle employee relations—without confidentiality breaches, hypotheticals that feel fake, or a lecture on “best practices.”
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Signup to Generate a PitchHR Voices is a scenario-based podcast for People Leaders who’ve actually had to make the call. Each episode brings experienced HR and People leaders into realistic, anonymized workplace scenarios, the kind you recognize immediately. Performance issues. Messy conflicts. Investigations that don’t fit neatly into a policy box.
HR Voices is hosted by Rebecca Taylor. The show has published 105 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Grief Leave Ran Out. The Manager Didn’t Tell HR." (27 October 2026, 39 minutes), "Salary Spreadsheet Leaked Company-Wide: HR’s First 24 Hours" (27 October 2026, 31 minutes), and "Proof Over Prestige: Why the Best Resume Isn’t Always the Best Hire" (13 October 2026, 31 minutes).
HR Voices publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 105 episodes.
Booking probability for HR Voices is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. HR Voices requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. HR Voices's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for HR Voices are Business & Management Consulting. HR Voices has a business audience.
Rebecca Taylor hosts HR Voices, a business podcast with 105 episodes published.
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HR Voices
(with guest Anne Buchanan, Chief People Officer, Guitar Center) An employee’s bereavement leave after his spouse’s death ends after five days, per policy, but he’s clearly not okay. His manager quietly covers for him...
HR Voices
(with guest Mhyrynde Noah, Director of Compliance & Benefits, Sojitz Corporation of America) A salary spreadsheet meant only for the comp committee goes out to the entire company. It’s live for four hours. Pay gaps by...
HR Voices
(with guest Heather Kruger, Chief People Officer at Engine) Two finalists. One spent three years at a household-name company, but joined after the IPO, once the hard part was over. The other spent three years living...
HR Voices
(with Adam Goldman, CHRO at Cacique Foods) Your step-count challenge got a standing ovation from the exec team. It also passed legal review as ADA compliant. And it’s quietly telling employees with disabilities to...
HR Voices
(with guest Jaime Akers, VP of Team Member Relations at Hilton Grand Vacations) For two years, an employee's performance reviews were drafted by AI and lightly edited by her manager, and she only found out because the...
HR Voices
(with guest Jeremy Edmonds, EVP of People & Culture at Snooze) An employee under a performance investigation has been secretly recording every one-on-one with his manager for eight months, in a two-party consent state...
HR Voices
(with guest Chris Corneen, CHRO at MSI) An employee reports financial irregularities in her department. The investigation confirms she was right, and also finds that she went along with some of the irregularities before...
HR Voices
(with guest Alissa Horn, Senior Director of Global Investigations and Employee Relations at Mattel) An employee files an ethics complaint about their manager's expense reports. One week later, that same manager puts...
HR Voices
(with guest Michelle Spencer Fourney, Global Director of Employee Relations at Zscaler) A manager tells HR she's "pretty sure" an employee has undiagnosed ADHD — based on nothing but his disorganization — and asks...
HR Voices
(with guest Maggie Lansdale, Global VP of People at Cannondale) An employee walks out the door and finally tells the truth: a director has been verbally abusive to junior staff for years. She never reported it while...
HR Voices
(with guest Earlieen Bethel, VP of Human Resources at Comcast) An employee resigns with two weeks' notice. Her manager, annoyed, tells her to leave that day — but never processes it as a termination, so she's paid...
HR Voices
with Ben Martin, VP of HR Strategy and Workforce Planning at Cengage An ops lead spends a year building the case management infrastructure a VP now uses to justify cutting a manager training budget — except the...
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with Sophia Sanchez, Employee Relations Leader at Infosys An employee says HR botched her harassment complaint — too slow, no updates, sided with her manager with no real explanation. She's not wrong about the process...
HR Voices
An employee submits a voicemail as proof her manager threatened her job over a weekend shift. It sounds exactly like him. He swears he never left it. Forensic voice analysis can't settle it either way — and both sides...
HR Voices
An anonymous ethics hotline report lands on your desk. Widespread favoritism on the sales team. No names. No dates. No incidents. Nothing you can act on. The VP of sales wants it closed as unactionable. So you pull comp...
HR Voices
A high performer goes quiet, and her manager decides she's quiet quitting and starts pushing her toward the door. What he doesn't know: she's caring for a parent with a terminal diagnosis. Host Rebecca Taylor and Cindy...
HR Voices
An HR analyst builds a $400/hour AI consulting practice on evenings and weekends. She never tells her employer. There's no moonlighting policy. Then her manager finds it on LinkedIn and raises concerns about loyalty...
HR Voices
The conversation delves into the complexities of workplace tensions arising from off-duty political expression and employee concerns. It explores the impact on company culture, the importance of employee dialogue, and...
Episode #89
Summary On HR Voices, host Rebecca Taylor sits down with Chad Thompson, Chief People Officer at LanzaTech, to work through a scenario every people leader will recognize: a manager discloses an employee's performance...
Episode #88
Summary On HR Voices, Rebecca Taylor and Kandi Gongora, Chief Transformation and People Officer at The Car Group, work through a forced ranking system that's falling apart: managers are required to put 10% of every team...
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