The HR Huddle

The HR Huddle

From Follower to Leader

Welcome to the HR Huddle, the ultimate resource for all things HR. Cause when the shit goes down, you've got to huddle up.

The HR Huddle is comprised of three unique mini-shows:


Spilling The Tea On HR Tech — Join Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson as they break down the latest happenings in HR and HR tech.


HR We Have a Problem — Join Cliff Stevenson as he tackles the messy stories everyone in human resources has, featuring industry guests working on solving these problems.


The Pivot Effect is where followers become leaders. Join Teri Zipper and Susan Richards for the stories, skills, and mindset shifts that get you there.

The Pivot Effect - How burnout, a pandemic, and a song about self-doubt led to a second career in leadership coaching.
The HR HuddleJune 18, 202600:38:43

The Pivot Effect - How burnout, a pandemic, and a song about self-doubt led to a second career in leadership coaching.

In this episode of The Pivot Effect, hosts Teri Zipper and Susan Richards welcome guest Amy Gerhartz, Founder & Lead Coach of A Higher Way Of Living, as they talk through what it actually looks like to leave a career you built from scratch - and why the hardest part of starting over is often convinc...

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How gaps in historical data are driving AI errors across women's healthcare, candidate screening, and HR tech decisions.
The HR HuddleJune 11, 202600:46:38

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How gaps in historical data are driving AI errors across women's healthcare, candidate screening, and HR tech decisions.

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson cover several notable moves in the HR tech market, including Betterworks acquiring Rypple and Rod Johnson joining UKG as Chief Revenue Officer, with broader observations about where the performance management and front...

HR, We Have a Problem - The agentic workforce is here and these are the questions HR leaders must ask before it goes rogue.
The HR HuddleJune 04, 202600:18:35

HR, We Have a Problem - The agentic workforce is here and these are the questions HR leaders must ask before it goes rogue.

In this episode of HR, We Have a Problem, Cliff Stenvenson and guest Sudeep Cherian, VP Product Marketing at Cornerstone dig into what it actually means to bring agentic AI into the workforce technology stack. Sudeep walks through how Cornerstone's updated platform architecture layers a context grap...

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - Why unpredictability in AI pricing unpredictability is a big threat to your HR tech budget and what vendors are doing about it.
The HR HuddleMay 28, 202600:54:40

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - Why unpredictability in AI pricing unpredictability is a big threat to your HR tech budget and what vendors are doing about it.

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Cliff Stevenson and Allison Williams, Director of Research Programs at Sapient Insights Group, Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless, the SDK and MCP server tooling company, and what that consolidation means for organizations building on agentic AI. The...

The Pivot Effect - How to evaluate a job offer using real worker outcome data and what 12 million workers reveal about how you actually get ahead.
The HR HuddleMay 21, 202600:32:21

The Pivot Effect - How to evaluate a job offer using real worker outcome data and what 12 million workers reveal about how you actually get ahead.

In this episode of The Pivot Effect, hosts Teri Zipper and Susan Richards welcome guest Rajiv Chandrasekaran from Where You Work Matters, an independent data project that analyzed real outcomes for 12 million workers across 1,750 employers over five years. Unlike traditional best-places-to-work surv...

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - A trove of market announcements and people moves and why the AI model you build on matters more than you think
The HR HuddleMay 14, 202601:00:06

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - A trove of market announcements and people moves and why the AI model you build on matters more than you think

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson pick up where they left off, working through a long list of market announcements that includes UKG's partnership with Google Gemini, Amazon's entry into agentic hiring with Connect Talent, and SAP's data acquisition st...

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How the shift from selling applications to selling outcomes is changing the way HR buys technology
The HR HuddleMay 08, 202600:49:10

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How the shift from selling applications to selling outcomes is changing the way HR buys technology

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson work through everything they saw and heard across Infor Analyst Day, HR Tech Europe, Oracle, Workday Innovation Summit, ICIMS, ADP, Workhuman, and Canva. The 29th annual HR Systems Survey is now open, and the hosts sha...

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - The 29th Annual HR Systems Survey is open and here is why your organization's data belongs in it.
The HR HuddleMay 01, 202600:19:01

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - The 29th Annual HR Systems Survey is open and here is why your organization's data belongs in it.

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Cliff Stevenson and Tammy Smith, Sapient’s senior manager of data science, mark the public launch of the 29th Annual HR Systems Survey, the most expansive and longest-running survey of its kind. Almost 10,000 professionals representing 4,670 organizati...

The Pivot Effect - The case for reinventing your career on your own terms before the pace of change does it for you.
The HR HuddleApril 23, 202600:18:02

The Pivot Effect - The case for reinventing your career on your own terms before the pace of change does it for you.

In this episode of The Pivot Effect, Teri Zipper and Susan Richards are launching something new. The Pivot Effect is a podcast built around the individual, where you are in your career, where you want to go, and what it takes to get there in a world of work that keeps shifting underneath you. In thi...

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How Oracle's massive layoffs, six conflicting AI studies, and a military targeting error share a common problem.
The HR HuddleApril 16, 202601:15:53

Spilling the Tea on HR Tech - How Oracle's massive layoffs, six conflicting AI studies, and a military targeting error share a common problem.

In this episode of Spilling the Tea on HR Tech, Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson dig into a news week in which the same question keeps surfacing: how much should you trust the data in front of you? Oracle laid off 30,000 employees, and the financial story behind that decision is more complicated th...