Oct 28, 202644 min
Jackie Barefield, Head of Future Capabilities and Operations at BAT, joins us to discuss how L&D is shifting from a traditional cost center to a value-adding, future-focused driver of change, requiring leaders and teams...
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Workplace Stories is a podcast for HR and people leaders who are tired of noise and need clarity that actually holds up. It is hosted by Stacia Garr and Dani Johnson of RedThread Research. Each episode features candid conversations with practitioners, thinkers, and executives who are navigating real decisions inside complex organizations. Not hypotheticals. Not vendor promises. Real tradeoffs, real experiments, and real lessons learned along the way. You’ll hear how leaders are making sense of skills, AI, organizational design, and culture when there’s no clear playbook and pressure to show progress is high. The focus is always the same: what’s actually working, what isn’t, and what leaders are doing next. Workplace Stories helps you make sense of complexity, build credibility with evidence, and move from ideas to action with more confidence. Want to be part of the conversation? Join our community for free and connect with others shaping the future of work. Learn more about RedThread Research here: https://redthreadresearch.com/home
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What is Workplace Stories by RedThread Research about?
Workplace Stories is a podcast for HR and people leaders who are tired of noise and need clarity that actually holds up. It is hosted by Stacia Garr and Dani Johnson of RedThread Research. Each episode features candid conversations with practitioners, thinkers, and executives who are navigating real decisions inside complex organizations. Not hypotheticals. Not vendor promises.
What has Workplace Stories by RedThread Research covered recently?
Recent episodes include "The Key Ingredients for Leadership in L&D’s Next Chapter: Jackie Barefield" (28 October 2026, 44 minutes), "Cisco’s Cross-Functional Approach to Learning and AI: Marci Paino & Lawrence Stevens" (14 October 2026, 64 minutes), and "ServiceNow's Approach to Skills and Workforce Readiness: Jayney Howson" (30 September 2026, 61 minutes).
How often does Workplace Stories by RedThread Research publish?
Workplace Stories by RedThread Research publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 55 minutes.
How hard is it to get booked on Workplace Stories by RedThread Research?
Booking probability for Workplace Stories by RedThread Research is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Workplace Stories by RedThread Research requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Workplace Stories by RedThread Research's contact route on record: verified email.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #135
Making Order Out of Chaos in L&D: Tracie Cantu
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Episode #134
Rethinking DEI Paradigms: Jennifer McCollum
Aug 19, 202648 minThis week on the podcast, we welcome Jennifer McCollum, President and CEO of Catalyst and author of the new book Men at Work: The Roadmap to Gender Partnership. Jennifer shares her perspective on whether true gender...
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Jul 8, 202658 minArtificial intelligence is transforming not just our workplaces, but the very nature of education and professional development. Our guest this week, Michael Noble, Vice President of Academic Program Development at...
Jun 24, 202659 minLearning and Development (L&D) is at a crossroads. As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates changes in the workplace, L&D’s traditional stronghold—the creation and curation of content—is rapidly losing its strategic...
Jun 10, 202652 minOrganizational change is now a constant rather than a phase. Few stories illustrate this better than Hearst Networks’ journey, as shared by Dean Possenniskie, CEO, and Lucy King, Chief People Officer, on this episode of...
May 27, 202658 minThis week on the podcast, we welcome Heather Stefanski, Chief Learning and Development Officer at McKinsey & Company. We explore how organizations like McKinsey are reimagining employee development for the age of AI...
May 13, 20261h 4mFrontline workers form the massive, beating heart of the global workforce, constituting up to 80% of all employees. But their enablement, experience, and upward mobility often remain quietly neglected. We sit down with...
Apr 29, 202650 minIn this episode, we sit down with John Barrand, CHRO for the State of Utah, to discuss an inspiring transformation in public sector performance management. John led a bold effort to overhaul Utah’s performance...
Episode #125
Designing Future Narratives in a Changing Workplace: Lisa Kay Solomon and Jeffrey Rogers
Apr 15, 202653 minIn this episode, we welcome Lisa Kay Solomon, designer-in-residence at Stanford's d.school and host of the "How We Future" podcast, and Jeffrey Rogers, principal of Learning and Facilitation at Radical and co-founder of...
Apr 1, 202656 minThis week, we’re sitting down with Ron Storn, Chief People and Culture Officer at Truckstop, to discuss culture—how it forms, who owns it, and how it scales in growing organizations. We explore the relationships between...
Mar 18, 202647 minOn this episode, we’re with Jenna Filipkowski, the Head of Learning and Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. With a background in organizational psychology and research, Jenna brings a fresh, outsider...
Episode #122
Strategic Workforce Planning: David Edwards
Mar 4, 202650 minStrategic workforce planning is back, and not in a nostalgic “this trend is back around” kind of way. It is back because the old staffing model, react late, hire fast, hope the market delivers, is failing more often...
Feb 17, 202658 minFrom overcoming initial anxieties through hackathons and playful experiments, to setting an ambitious organizational roadmap for AI, Dessalen Wood shares how Syntax is embedding artificial intelligence across...
Episode #120
Five Levels of Becoming AI Native: Melissa Reeve
Feb 4, 202650 minThe way organizations think about artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace has shifted dramatically over the past few years. While early conversations centered on isolated experiments and technological hype...
Episode #119
Reimagining Work at Scale: Manuel Smukalla on Skills, Dynamic Shared Ownership, and the Future of Bayer
Jan 21, 202659 minManuel Smukalla, Global Talent Impact, Skills Intelligence, and Systems Lead at Bayer, joins Workplace Stories to unpack one of the most ambitious organizational transformations underway today. As Bayer confronts...
Recent guests
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Jayney Howson
Senior Vice President and Head of Global Learning & Development, ServiceNow
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Tracie Cantu
Chief Learning Strategist, Your CLO
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Jennifer McCollum
CEO & Author of "In Her Own Voice - A Woman's Rise to CEO", Linkage, Inc.
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Dr. Benjamin Granger
organizational psychologist and author of A Leader Worth Following, Qualtrics Experience Management Institute
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