Podcasts

Tom is a Principal in the Health practice and leads the voluntary benefits team at Buck, an integrated HR, pensions, and employee benefits consulting firm. For more than 20 years he has helped some of the country's largest and most respected employers design voluntary benefit programs that deliver on business objectives and drive greater employee engagement.

Usama Fayyad is Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI/ Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Previously he was the Chairman & Founder: Open Insights, LLC, San Francisco, CA, USA (established in Seattle, WA, 11/2008). Chief Data Officer: Group MD, Barclays, London(2013-2016). Chairman Oasis500: appointed Exec Chairman by King Abdullah II of Jordan (2010-2016). Chairman & CTO: Blue Kangaroo (2010-2013), Burlingame, CA. 2004-08: Yahoo! Chief Data Officer/EVP – 1st CDO in industry. Co-Founder/CEO: Open Insights ('08), DMX Group (acquired by Yahoo! '04), Audience Science/digiMine ('00). 1996-00: led Microsoft Research Group & data mining SQLServer products. 1989-96: NASA's JPL earning Caltech's top research excellence award & U.S. Government medal-NASA. 1991: Ph.D. U of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2 BSE's: EE & CSE; MSE: CSE & M.Sc. Math)

Ruth is a Principal in Engagement practice at Buck, an integrated HR, pensions, and employee benefits consulting firm. She has conducted extensive employee surveys and focus group research to assess employee needs, define business strategy, and guide program design.

Melissa Venable, PhD, is a principal writer and education advisor at BestColleges.

Your employment brand, whether it's positive, negative, or nonexistent, significantly impacts your ability to attract top talent. What makes your organization a great place to work?

Regina E. Herzlinger and Dr. Richard J. Boxer explain their solution to hospital bed capacity surges, which can lead up to 80,000 excess deaths.

An approaching recession means that employees need to be prepared for layoffs

Will Porteous, chief growth officer of Maven Clinic, looks back on his and his husband's path to parenthood, and outlines ways to make it easier.

Barika Williams is executive director of the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development.

Paulina Gonzalez-Brito is the CEO of Rise Economy, formerly the California Reinvestment Coalition, a member-led alliance focused on creating a more equitable society for Black, Indigenous and people of color. She is recognized as a leader in organizing economic justice campaigns to expand worker rights, immigrant rights and the rights of low-income and underrepresented communities of color.