The HR Huddle

What happens after the company you built doesn’t need you anymore? In this episode of The Pivot Effect, Teri Zipper and Susan Richards sit down with Diane Weaver, COO at Baryons and a tech founder. Diane is a fifth-generation entrepreneur and educator who grew up working on her family’s farm and bei...

Episode description In this special edition of HR We Have a Problem, recorded live at HR Tech, Cliff Stevenson and Stacey Harris sat down with Cornerstone’s Chief Marketing Officer Mini Peiris and Guna Jayaraman, who leads product strategy and technology. They recorded from the top of Cornerstone’s ...

Throwback Thursday: We’re revisiting one of our favorite conversations from HR, We Have a Problem. Teri Zipper talks with Melissa Reeve, creator of the Hyper-Adaptive Model and author of Hyper-Adaptive: Rewiring the Enterprise to Become AI Native, about why successful AI integration means spending 7...

Recorded on the road, between hurricanes and a packed conference schedule, this quick-turnaround episode has Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson sharing the HR tech stories everyone will be talking about at HR Tech next week. Stacey calls in from Workday Rising with the latest on Sana, the new Sana Ag...

What happens when the job you build to solve a problem turns into your calling? On this episode of The Pivot Effect, Teri Zipper and Susan Richards talk with Denise Melton, pastoral counselor and Executive Director of Cumberland Children's House of Hope and the Threads of Hope Thrift Store.  De...

HR tech conference season is here, and this week's tea is piping hot. Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson of Sapient Insights Group cover the deals, the debates, and what it all means for your organization.  They start with a big round of deal news. Phoenix Education Partners agrees to acquire Fu...

In this special episode of HR We Have a Problem, Cliff Stevenson steps out of the studio and takes you to NAPEO 2026 in Marco Island, Florida, the annual conference of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations. There's no single guest this time, just unfiltered hallway and show...

Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson are back with more tea on the biggest HR tech stories of the last two weeks.  From a major AI security scare to a $166M investment shakeup, this episode covers a lot of ground on where the HR tech market (and the money) is heading.  In this episode:&n...

On this episode of The Pivot Effect, hosts Teri Zipper and Susan Richards sit down with Peter Novak, founder and CEO of Strictly Speaking Group, for a conversation that spans seven years in a Jesuit seminary, a rare doctorate in dramaturgy, twenty-two years teaching at the University of San Francisc...

Disengagement and burnout have barely budged in decades — Gallup still puts disengagement at 80%+. In this episode, host Cliff Stevenson sits down with mental fitness coach Todd Bertsch to talk about the early warning signs of burnout, why lasting change usually starts with an interruption rather th...