The Meg and Amy Show

Sarah White, founder of Lemon, has spent about twenty-five years in HR tech as a practitioner, an analyst and a strategist. She doesn't believe there's such a thing as an AI company, only companies that use AI to solve a real problem. She explains why what looks like buyers pulling back is really ri...

Steve Goldberg has been coming to HR Tech for about twenty years, as an analyst, an advisor and, in his words, a social butterfly. He thinks "native AI" won't mean much until someone builds a maturity model for it, and he'd rather talk about real use cases anyway. We get into org agility, and why HR...

Bonnie Tinder has been to 15 HR Tech conferences, and her company, Raven Intelligence, collects peer reviews of HR and ERP implementations, so she sees what actually happens after the contract is signed. Her data has two surprises in it.The first is that customers love their implementation partner m...

Lance Haun has walked the HR Tech expo floor since 2009, and this year he wrote that it was more overwhelming than ever because every vendor was saying the same thing about AI. His test is simple: put your thumb over the logo and see if you can still tell who's who. We talk about who the booths are ...

Every booth on the HR Tech expo floor this year was saying the same thing about AI, and the buyers walking those aisles wanted something a lot more practical. So we grabbed four of our favorite people, who live in Las Vegas, to find out what's actually changing. Lance Haun has a simple test for tell...

How do you prepare and deliver a great keynote? Meg Bear and Amy Wilson share their practical playbook for owning the stage — from audience prep to what to wear to what to do in the preceding 20 minutes. Former tech executives Meg and Amy break down keynote prep as a leadership skill: know your audi...

Why hasn't AI showed up in the P&L yet? Heidrick & Struggles CEO Tom Monahan joins Meg and Amy. His one question that reveals your real capability gap: If you just told your team to go do that, what wouldn't happen? Tom unpacks why the CEO job is now a two-way ambassador role, and why moving AI from...

What Every Executive Woman Should Know About Perimenopause with Dr. Jessica Kassis OB-GYN Dr. Jessica Kassis missed her own perimenopause for a year - until her primary care doctor caught it. She joins Meg and Amy to explain why high-performing women miss the signs at work, how to talk to your docto...

HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan shared a layoff memo for 660 employees. As longtime operators, Meg and Amy break down what she got right (and wrong) about leading with clarity, humanity, and accountability in a hard moment, and what other leaders can learn from it. What we cover: - Why this memo stood out...

AI won't fix a broken process — it makes outcomes worse. Stacey Harris shares new results from the 29th Annual HR Systems Survey on what actually drives better outcomes. Former tech executives Meg Bear and Amy Wilson sit down with Stacey Harris, Chief Research Officer at Sapien Insights Group, to br...