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Elevate Your AIQ

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Bob Pulver is helping each of us navigate our respective journeys with artificial intelligence (AI) effectively and responsibly. Bob chats with AI and Future of Work experts, talent and transformation leaders, and practitioners who provide diverse perspectives on how AI is solving real-world challenges and driving responsible innovation.

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Ep 113: Leading with Business Strategy to Deliver...

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2026/04/10

Charlene Li, analyst, author, and disruptive leadership expert, returns to Elevate Your AIQ to discuss with Bob her newly released book Winning with AI, co-authored with Dr. Katia Walsh. Charlene makes the case that most organizations are failing with AI because they treat it as a technology initiative rather than a strategic one — and lays out a 90-day, 12-step framework for building a foundation that creates real enterprise value. The conversation revisits themes from her Fall 2024 appearance,

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Ep 112: Architecting the Human-AI Partnership to Turn...

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2026/04/03

Bob Pulver reconnects with former IBM colleague Oded Dubovsky, founder of STRAIX (Strategy for AI Execution), an advisory practice helping organizations adopt AI thoughtfully and effectively. Oded shares a career journey spanning over two decades at IBM Research's Haifa Lab — where he led pioneering cognitive computing and computer vision projects — through applied AI work at Intel, and into independent consulting. The conversation explores why 95% of organizations struggle to move beyond AI

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Ep 111: Building and Managing AI Agents to Shape the...

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2026/03/27

Bob Pulver sits down with Jacob Bank, Co-founder and CEO of Relay.app, whose career arc — from Stanford's Multi-Agent Systems Lab to founding Timeful (acquired by Google in 2015) to leading Gmail and Google Calendar product teams — represents one of the most continuous threads in AI agent development. Jacob frames AI agents not as software to configure, but as employees to hire, coach, and manage, arguing that great people managers are naturally suited to the AI era. He maps out a three-tier AI

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Ep 110: Rewiring Organizations for Human-Centric AI...

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2026/03/20

Bob Pulver and Melissa Reeve explore AI transformation and organizational design through the lens of Melissa's Hyperadaptive framework. They unpack what it means to become AI native, why most enterprises stumble by neglecting human support structures, and how governance, AI activation hubs, and AI leads create always-on learning organizations. The conversation tackles the reinvestment dilemma — what to do with capacity freed by AI — and makes the case for durable skills, systems thinking, and career

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Ep 109: Championing Human Originality to Accelerate...

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2026/03/13

Jonathan Aberman — venture capitalist, entrepreneur, educator, and CEO of Hupside — joins Bob Pulver to explore why AI readiness is fundamentally a human potential problem. Hupside's Original Intelligence Quotient (OIQ) provides an objective measurement of human originality relative to AI output, giving organizations a clear signal of who can thrive in an AI-augmented environment, who needs development, and how to compose teams for transformation. Jonathan and Bob dig into the dangerous feedback

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Ep 108: Disrupting Insurance While Building...

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2026/03/06

Juan Garcia, co-founder of Tuio, a fully digital insurance company based in Spain, joins Bob to discuss how Tuio is reimagining personal lines insurance for digitally-native consumers long underserved by traditional carriers. Juan shares how Tuio evolved its AI strategy from chasing operational efficiency to making smarter decisions across marketing, underwriting, and claims. Tuio built a proprietary AI claims agent that surfaces next-best-action recommendations with confidence scores, always with a

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54:43

Ep 107: Measuring AI Maturity, ROI, and...

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2026/02/27

Bob Pulver sits down with Russ Fradin, Founder and CEO of Larridin, to explore what it really takes for organizations to move from AI experimentation to measurable impact. They unpack the tension between AI excitement and enterprise reality, focusing on ROI, workforce readiness, responsible adoption, and the cultural shifts required to unlock productivity gains. Russ outlines why measurement and visibility are the missing pieces in most AI strategies and makes the case that high-agency professionals

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Ep 106: Activating Network Intelligence to Unlock...

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2026/02/20

Bob Pulver is joined by Stephen Messer, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Collective[i] and Intelligence.com, to explore how collective intelligence, social analytics, and contextual AI are reshaping how business gets done. Stephen challenges the limitations of traditional SaaS and language models, arguing that true AI value comes from modeling real-world systems — especially how trust, relationships, and buying decisions actually unfold. The conversation dives into economic foundation models,

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Ep 105: Transforming High-Volume Hiring for Greater...

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2026/02/13

Bob sits down with Dave Vu, Co-founder of Ribbon, to explore how AI is reshaping high-volume hiring and the candidate experience. Drawing on his background in recruiting, venture capital, and scaling AI startups, Dave shares why the hiring funnel is breaking under application volume—and how AI interviews can help close the gap. They discuss human-in-the-loop design, responsible AI, regulatory trends, bias mitigation, and why transparency and feedback are critical to building trust in the future of

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Ep 104: Sustaining Human Performance and Wellbeing in...

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2026/02/06

Bob Pulver is joined by Tim Borys, a leader who wears many hats across executive coaching, workplace wellbeing, entrepreneurship, and podcasting. Drawing on Tim’s journey from elite athletics to advising leaders and organizations, the conversation explores sustainable human performance, burnout, adaptability, and leadership in times of constant change. Together, Bob and Tim examine why human-centric thinking is more critical than ever as AI reshapes work—and how individuals and organizations can

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Ep 103: Modernizing the Hospitality Experience to...

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2026/01/30

Bob Pulver welcomes Lance Thompson, President of VIVI, a hospitality-focused AI company formerly known as SAVI. Lance shares his journey from luxury hospitality to tech entrepreneurship, highlighting how VIVI is bringing human-centered design to voice AI. They discuss the evolution of guest experiences, the importance of multilingual support, and how AI is being responsibly deployed to reduce friction for both guests and staff. From room service to HR to golf tee times, VIVI’s solutions demonstrate

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Ep 102: Enabling an Intelligent, Efficient, and...

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2026/01/23

In this insightful and forward-looking conversation, Bob Pulver speaks with Adam Gordon, co-founder and CEO of Poetry, about the rise of hiring enablement and how AI can be used to create consistency, speed, and scalability in talent acquisition. Adam reflects on his entrepreneurial journey from Candidate.ID to Poetry, unpacks the MOLT framework (Marketing, Operations, Learning, Tools), and explains how Poetry integrates AI to support recruiters and hiring managers with streamlined processes and

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Ep 101: Reshaping the Workforce Through Sensemaking...

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2026/01/16

Bob Pulver talks with Vijay Swami, Co-Founder and CEO of Draup, a global leader in AI-powered talent intelligence. Vijay shares his journey from early roles in call center forecasting to founding a management consultancy and then TalentNeuron, later acquired by CEB. With deep roots in data science and a vision for empowering internal analytics teams, Vijay built Draup to tackle labor market complexity using advanced AI, unstructured data, and rich taxonomies. Vijay and Bob discuss building trusted,

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Ep 100: Pulverizing the Journey to Human-Centric AI...

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2026/01/09

In this milestone 100th episode of Elevate Your AIQ, host Bob Pulver reflects on the journey of the podcast, discussing key themes that have emerged over the past 18 months. He emphasizes the importance of human potential in the age of AI, the need for responsible AI practices, and the evolution of talent acquisition towards skills-based hiring. Bob also addresses concerns about job displacement due to automation and highlights the significance of community engagement in navigating these changes

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Ep 99: Advancing Human-Centered AI and Collaborative...

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2025/12/26

Bob Pulver sits down with Ross Dawson, world-renowned futurist, serial entrepreneur, and creator of the Humans + AI community. With decades of foresight expertise, Ross shares his evolving vision of human-AI collaboration — from systems-level transformation to individual cognitive augmentation. The conversation explores why organizations must reframe their approach to talent, capability, and value creation in the age of AI, and how human agency, trust, and fluid talent models will define the future

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Ep 98: Empowering an AI-Ready Generation to Learn,...

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2025/12/19

Bob Pulver speaks with Jeff Riley, former Massachusetts Commissioner of Education and Executive Director of Day of AI, a nonprofit launched out of MIT. They explore the urgent need for AI literacy in K-12 education, the responsibilities of educators, parents, and policymakers in the AI era, and how Day of AI is building tools, curricula, and experiences that empower students to engage with AI critically and creatively. Jeff shares both inspiring examples and sobering warnings about the risks and

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Ep 97: Challenging the AI Narrative and Redefining...

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2025/12/12

Bob sits down with Jeff Pennington, former Chief Research Informatics Officer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and author of You Teach the Machines, and his daughter Mary Jane (MJ) Pennington, a recent Colby College graduate working in rural healthcare analytics. Jeff and MJ reflect on the real-time impact of AI across generations—from how Gen Z is navigating AI’s influence on learning and careers, to how large institutions are integrating AI technologies. They dig into themes of

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Ep 96: Building Learning Communities for a...

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2025/12/05

Bob Pulver sits down with community builder and HR influencer Enrique Rubio, founder of Hacking HR. Enrique shares his journey from engineering to HR, his time building multiple global communities, and why he ultimately returned “home” to Hacking HR to pursue its mission of democratizing access to high-quality learning. Bob and Enrique discuss the explosion of AI programs, the danger of superficial “prompting” education, the urgent need for governance and ethics, and the risks organizations face

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Ep 95: Confronting the Realities of Successful AI...

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2025/11/28

Bob Pulver and Sandra Loughlin explore why most narratives about AI-driven job loss miss the mark and why true productivity gains require deep changes to processes, data, and people—not just new tools. Sandra breaks down the realities of synthetic experts, digital twins, and the limits of current enterprise data maturity, while offering a grounded, hopeful view of how humans and AI will evolve together. With clarity and nuance, she explains the four pillars of AI literacy, the future of work, and

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Ep 94: Redefining Recruitment For a More...

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2025/11/21

Bob Pulver speaks with Keith Langbo, CEO and founder of Kelaca, about redefining recruitment in the AI era. Keith shares why he founded Kelaca to prioritize people over process, how core values like kindness and collaboration shape culture, and why trust and choice must be built into AI-powered recruiting tools. Bob and Keith explore evolving models of hiring, including fractional workforces, agentic systems, and data-informed decision-making — all rooted in a future where humans remain in control

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