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The Talent Sherpa Podcast

Jackson O. Lynch

Where Senior Leaders Come to Rethink How Human Capital Really WorksThis podcast is built for executives who are done with HR theater and ready to run talent like a business system. The conversations focus on decisions that show up in revenue, margin, speed, and accountability. No recycled frameworks. No vanity metrics. No performative culture talk.Each episode breaks down how real organizations build talent density, set clear expectations, reward the right outcomes, and fix what quietly kills

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14:54

Why Smart CHROs Lose Credibility for Doing Good Work

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2026/01/19

Send us a text Most CHROs lose credibility not because they fail, but because they succeed at the wrong things. They deliver what was asked, show up prepared, complete the work. And still, when critical conversations happen, the CEO routes elsewhere. This isn't a relationship problem. This is a forecast problem. Jackson Lynch breaks down three ways CHROs train CEOs to discount their judgment—and five plays that create predictable accuracy. What You'll Learn The forecast problem: CEO deciding...

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51:38

Why Performance Beats Pedigree with Lou Adler

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2026/01/15

Send us a text Most companies say trust matters, but when they run interviews, they only evaluate skills and polish. They focus on what candidates have rather than how they operate. And when you hire that way, you get predictably unpredictable results. Lou Adler has spent over 50 years studying the difference between people who elevate an organization and the people leaders end up managing around. He's examined thousands of hires across roles, industries, and eras, and he keeps seeing the sam...

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11:45

Servant Leadership, Debunked

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2026/01/12

Send us a text You cannot bolt a "serve first" identity onto someone who has spent 20 years operating on achievement, control, and self-preservation. No seminar is going to rewrite that. Pretending otherwise is how companies end up with inspirational quotes and mediocre execution. Jackson Lynch breaks down why servant leadership, as it's popularly sold, is one of the biggest myths in leadership—and what actually works: engineering leadership context instead of trying to reprogram person...

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11:02

When AI Hits Fog, It Scales the Fog

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2026/01/06

Send us a text Ready for the sting that actually helps? We pull back the curtain on why AI fails in organizations that can’t define outcomes and introduce the clarity ratio, a simple metric that exposes whether your team is truly ready to scale AI or just good at shipping slide decks. If your top workflows can’t be expressed in one sentence—Do X so that Y—you’re at risk of scaling confusion instead of value. We start with the 2026 reality: CEOs want adoption, boards want ROI, and...

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13:41

What 2025 Proved About Talent Strategy Under Pressure

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2025/12/31

Send us a text In the final episode of the year, Jackson Lynch revisits ten workforce predictions made at the start of 2025 and scores them against what actually happened. Using real data and observable outcomes, the conversation walks through headcount reductions, early-career hiring collapse, AI adoption, merit-based systems, board oversight, and the widening divide in the labor market. The episode matters because it separates narrative from reality. Growth masked inefficiency for yea...

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9:26

When You Realize You Are the Right CHRO for the Wrong...

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2025/12/29

Send us a text If your CEO has ever said, “Let us get back to nuts and bolts HR,” you are not hearing clarity. You are hearing a leadership alarm bell. That phrase sounds responsible, but it is really code for something far less strategic. It means the CEO wants relief, not growth. It means they want HR to remove complexity instead of building capability. And it means the organization is about to drift backward. In this episode, Jackson breaks down why strong CHROs get trapped when CEOs rever...

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32:01

Skills First Sounds Great Until You Meet Your Managers

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2025/12/18

Send us a textSkills based hiring sounds like the future. The research is glowing, the consultants are excited, and every conference panel is certain that skills first is how CHRO strategy wins the next decade. There is only one problem. Most companies cannot get managers to turn in performance reviews on time, let alone maintain a living skills architecture.In this episode, Scott and Jackson go head to head on one of the buzziest ideas in HR leadership. Scott plays the evangelist and argues that

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9:37

The Leadership Loneliness Nobody Admits

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2025/12/15

Send us a text This episode of the Talent Sherpa Podcast unpacks one of the least discussed realities of senior HR leadership: the structural loneliness of the CHRO role. Using Notre Dame Coach Marcus Freeman’s quote, “I do not have anybody to talk to sometimes,” as the anchor, Jackson explains why the CHRO becomes the emotional center of the organization with almost no place to put the weight they absorb. Listeners learn how the CHRO becomes the confidante for executives, employees, an...

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40:03

Your Invisible Workflows Are Broken

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2025/12/11

Send us a text Most leaders blame people when performance stalls; this episode argues the real culprit is the invisible system wrapped around them. In this Talent Sherpa conversation, Jackson O. Lynch and Scott Morris sit down with Dave Foley, founder and CEO of Vendi, to talk about a problem every CHRO and senior operator feels but rarely names: you cannot manage what you cannot see, and right now most companies cannot see how work actually moves. AI is speeding everything up, but your opera...

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12:17

Side Meetings Are the Leadership Audit You Failed

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2025/12/08

Send us a text Every senior leader has seen it. Some pretend they have not. If your CEO is running a quiet little “after meeting” once everyone leaves the room, the team has already failed. And the performance hit is bigger than executives like to admit. In this episode, Jackson breaks down one of the most uncomfortable leadership truths: when decisions migrate out of the room, power does too. That is the silent audit. And most leadership teams fail it long before they notice the consequences...

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30:38

The Boardroom Talent Report

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2025/12/04

Send us a text Most executive teams can quote their strategy and rattle off values. Ask what they believe about talent and you’ll get a different answer from every leader in the room. That’s not a system, and you need a system. In this episode, Jackson and Scott unpack the hidden operating code behind every promotion, pay call, and hiring trade-off: your talent philosophy. You already have one. The question is whether it’s explicit and consistent, or manager-by-manager improvisation. Wh...

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10:58

Leadership in the Age of Intelligent Work

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2025/12/02

Send us a text Most leaders talk about AI with the confidence of someone who skimmed a headline and called it research. They love the idea of transformation, but not the part where they must change how they lead. That is the tension we dig into in this episode: AI is replacing excuses. It makes work visible. It exposes gaps leaders have glossed over for years. And it audits leadership in real time. In this conversation, Jackson breaks down why AI surfaces something deeper than productivity. I...

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8:15

Gratitude as an Operating System

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2025/11/24

Send us a text Gratitude shows up every November, usually squeezed between pie logistics and Q4 panic. Most leaders treat it like decoration. Nice sentiment, zero business value. The truth is the opposite. Gratitude is one of the simplest and most reliable performance systems you have, and most organizations barely use it. In this episode, Jackson reframes gratitude as operational fuel, not seasonal fluff. When people feel seen, they contribute at a higher level. When they do not, performance...

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30:12

Writing the Talent Rules That Run Your Company

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2025/11/20

Send us a text Most executive teams can quote their strategy and rattle off values. Ask what they believe about talent and you’ll get a different answer from every leader in the room. That’s not a system. In this episode, Jackson and Scott unpack the hidden operating code behind every promotion, pay call, and hiring trade-off: your talent philosophy. You already have one. The question is whether it’s explicit and consistent, or manager-by-manager improvisation. When you make your belief...

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17:06

The Lie HR Keeps Telling Itself

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2025/11/17

Send us a text Every CHRO loves a good aspiration. Build an engaged culture. Be the employer of choice. Create a world-class talent strategy. The only problem? None of those are measurable—and none of them move the P&L. In this episode of The Talent Sherpa Podcast, Jackson Lynch goes straight at one of HR’s most expensive bad habits: the addiction to aspirational goals. These lofty slogans sound good in PowerPoint, but they don’t allocate capital, lift margin, or speed up execution. Jacks...

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29:34

Financial Fluency is Necessary but Insufficient

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2025/11/13

Send us a text Most advice to CHROs stops at “speak finance.” Useful, but incomplete. Financial fluency earns your seat. Integrated business fluency earns your voice. In this episode, Jackson and Scott make a sharper case: the modern CHRO cannot be a junior CFO. They must be a complete operator who connects capital, capability, and culture to competitive advantage. We break down a four-front campaign that turns credibility into authority: build a real CFO partnership by modeling ROI and...

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17:06

HR’s Sugar High

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2025/11/10

Send us a text Every HR leader loves a good slogan—Build an engaged culture. Be the employer of choice. Create a world-class talent strategy. They sound great in a slide deck. They also sound exactly the same at every underperforming company. In this episode of The Talent Sherpa Podcast, host Jackson O. Lynch goes straight after one of the costliest habits in human capital: our addiction to aspirational goals. Jackson breaks down why HR keeps reaching for inspiration when the business is star...

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45:05

Values Posters are Bad Corporate Poetry

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2025/11/06

Send us a text Senior leaders love values until they cost something. In this episode, Jackson O. Lynch and co-host Scott Morris put a hard edge on a soft topic and ask the only question that matters to a CEO or CHRO strategy leader: do your values change decisions under pressure, or are they just branding? Guest expert Ann Melinger, CEO of Bink, makes the case that values are only real when they shape rewards and consequences. Together, the group breaks down the difference between permission-...

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13:34

Your Calendar is a Crime Scene

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2025/11/03

Send us a text Most executives don’t fail because they lack ideas. They fail because they can’t find the time to think. In this episode of The Talent Sherpa Podcast, Jackson O. Lynch takes aim at the quiet killer of strategic leadership: the overcrowded calendar. He argues that most leaders have confused being available with being aligned, and the result is a company that is busy instead of effective. He tells the story of an executive team that filled ten hours a day with meetings and still ...

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33:55

Can HR and Finance Co-Exist?

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2025/10/30

Send us a text Senior leaders say HR and Finance are partners until budget season exposes the truth. In this episode of The Talent Sherpa Podcast, Jackson Lynch and co-host Scott Morris tackle the uneasy marriage between the CHRO and the CFO. Finance measures what is. HR argues for what could be. Between those two truths, the business either scales or stalls. Jackson makes a simple point with sharp edges. If there are three leaders in the triangle the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO and two are al...

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