Tony Buffum LIVE from Nashville: Conference Season Kickoff & The AI Productivity Promise Gap

SURPRISE!!!! Tony Buffum reports live from Nashville after attending the Conference Board's talent leaders event and hosting a Human Cloud executive dinner with 15+ CHROs from companies with 60,000+ employees. The conversations revealed a widening gap between AI's productivity promise and what organizations are actually experiencing. In this episode, Tony shares: - Why TA and recruiting teams are under intense pressure to implement AI fast — and why most are disappointed with the results - How the "productivity promise" of AI vendors rarely matches reality, and what buyers should demand instead - Why community, trust, and transparency — not vendor pitches — are the fastest path to confident workforce decisions Tony Buffum is Co-Founder & CSO at Human Cloud with 20+ years in global HR and talent transformation, former CHRO at FLIR Systems, and VP HR at Stanley Black & Decker. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by GreenLight.ai, the modern EOR for the modern workforce. --- About Human Cloud: We help companies find and deploy the right flexible talent solutions in minutes instead of months. We automate discovery, compliance, and orchestration across 1,000+ workforce platforms — so business teams move fast, procurement teams stay in control, and rogue contractor spend turns into a strategic advantage. --- HTML version for Megaphone:

Tony Buffum reports live from Nashville after attending the Conference Board's talent leaders event and hosting a Human Cloud executive dinner with 15+ CHROs from companies with 60,000+ employees. The conversations revealed a widening gap between AI's productivity promise and what organizations are actually experiencing.

In this episode, Tony shares:

• Why TA and recruiting teams are under intense pressure to implement AI fast — and why most are disappointed with the results
• How the "productivity promise" of AI vendors rarely matches reality, and what buyers should demand instead
• Why community, trust, and transparency — not vendor pitches — are the fastest path to confident workforce decisions

Tony Buffum is Co-Founder & CSO at Human Cloud with 20+ years in global HR and talent transformation, former CHRO at FLIR Systems, and VP HR at Stanley Black & Decker.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by GreenLight.ai, the modern EOR for the modern workforce.

About Human Cloud: We help companies find and deploy the right flexible talent solutions in minutes instead of months. We automate discovery, compliance, and orchestration across 1,000+ workforce platforms — so business teams move fast, procurement teams stay in control, and rogue contractor spend turns into a strategic advantage.