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the Talent Sherpa podcast

Jackson O. Lynch

The Talent Sherpa Podcast is where senior leaders come to rethink how human capital really works.Hosted by Jackson Lynch and Scott Morris, this podcast cuts through the noise of traditional HR chatter and zeroes in on what actually drives business performance.No fluff. No filler. Just hard-hitting insights, dry humor, and tactical guidance for leaders who are tired of HR metrics that measure motion instead of impact.Each episode challenges outdated thinking and replaces it with a sharper, more

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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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11:55

When HR Lost the Map

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2025/10/27

Send us a text In this episode of The Talent Sherpa Podcast, Jackson O. Lynch explores a new reality for HR leaders. More companies now trust AI to run entire hiring processes from start to finish than they trust their own recruiters. What began as simple task automation has evolved into full-scale workstream control. Jackson explains that when AI takes over end-to-end processes, it no longer just supports decisions. It makes them. Without a clear understanding of the system’s design logic, H...

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30:50

Surviving the CEO Swap

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2025/10/23

Send us a text More than half of all CHROs are replaced within twelve months of a new CEO taking the helm. That is not just turnover. It is a signal. In this episode of The Talent Sherpa Podcast, host Jackson O. Lynch and co-host Scott Morris explore why the CHRO seat has become the most volatile role in the C-suite and what sitting HR leaders can do to survive the transition. They start with a blunt truth. A new CEO is not only a leadership change but a mandate change. If HR keeps pushing ye...

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12:53

The Three-Sentence Test Every CHRO Should Pass

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2025/10/20

Send us a textMost CEOs will ask it eventually.That gut-punch question that silences the room: “Are our people good enough?”In this episode of The Talent Sherpa Podcast, Jackson O. Lynch breaks down why that question rarely gets a straight answer and why the real problem isn’t about turnover, engagement, or even outcomes. It’s about the absence of a performance philosophy.Most companies mistake outputs for performance. They chase sales targets, project deadlines, and green dashboards without

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32:08

How CHROs Win in Cutthroat Rooms

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2025/10/14

Send us a text Most executive teams like to say they are aligned. The truth is, most are not. What looks like unity is often a polite fiction hiding competing agendas, resource battles, and the quiet scramble for CEO attention. In this episode, Jackson and Scott pull back the curtain on how a CHRO builds peer relationships when collaboration feels more like competition. They dig into why alignment and trust are not the same thing. You can agree on the goal and still fight over how to get ther...

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00:10:45

The Loud Cost of the Wrong Voices

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2025/10/10

Executive teams often inherit a bloated structure: too many chiefs, not enough decision-makers. In Episode 77 of the Talent Sherpa Podcast, Jackson Lynch explores the hidden cost of letting the wrong people in the room and how it quietly kills speed, execution, and accountability.Through real-life stories, he shows how meetings devolve into status updates and turf wars instead of driving the big calls that actually shape a business. The true expense isn’t the compensation line: it’s the “time tax”

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00:25:51

Make Excellence Unmistakable

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2025/10/08

In this episode, Jackson Lynch and co-host Scott Morris dig into a hard truth: high performance starts with unambiguous outcomes. When leaders assume “smart people will figure it out,” they create hidden drag on speed, trust, and accountability. The conversation separates roles with precision. The CEO must demand clarity. Line managers must deliver it in day-to-day execution. The CHRO must build systems that make clarity consistent and measurable across the org.The episode explores how ambiguity

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00:10:43

Work Isn't Supposed to Be Comfortable

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2025/10/03

Is work supposed to be a safe space or a performance space? That was the debate at the SHRM Executive Network Visionaries Conference when Jackson Lynch sat down with SHRM CEO Johnny Taylor. In this episode of the Talent Sherpa Podcast, Jackson takes that conversation deeper, unpacking why leaders have confused psychological safety with comfort, and why that mistake is quietly eroding performance.Real safety matters. Every employee deserves freedom from harassment, retaliation, and bias. But when

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00:34:06

Comfort is Killing Performance

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2025/10/01

In Episode 74 of the Talent Sherpa Podcast, Jackson O. Lynch and co-host Scott Morris take on a common misconception at work: safety has come to mean comfort. They reframe the idea by arguing that high performance requires psychological safety and honest, often uncomfortable conversations. Using Pete Carroll’s “Tell the Truth Monday” as a model, they show how clarity and consequences can coexist with respect and belonging.The discussion gets tactical. Jackson and Scott outline how leaders set

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00:31:47

Time-Box Your Patience

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2025/09/25

In Episode 73, The Talent Sherpa Podcast tackles a common but costly myth: that performance management can fix an executive mis-hire. Host Jackson O. Lynch and co-host Scott Morris outline a pragmatic decision flow for CHROs under pressure: confirm the selection, clarify expectations, test whether the role is actually doable, and time-box sprints for role clarification or redesign. If those moves fail, values or judgment gaps call for a fast exit.They dig into why CEOs delay tough calls, how CHROs

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00:10:48

From Slide Wars to Shared Outcomes

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2025/09/23

In episode 72 of The Talent Sherpa Podcast, the spotlight is on the disconnect between finance and talent and what happens when those two conversations finally converge.Executives often hear two different stories: the CFO’s numbers on margin, cash flow, and forecasts, followed by HR’s updates on engagement, retention, and hiring. Both are accurate, but without integration the company misses the bigger picture.The discussion reframes talent as capital, not cost. By bringing forward metrics like

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