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Podcast: Who has the Best People Analytics Team? And what does the Future hold for Alexis?

Oct 8, 2025 | HR Analytics, People Analytics

In this podcast episode, host Cole Napper interviews Alexis Fink, former leader at Meta, Microsoft, and Intel, about her “post-corporate season,” where she now runs the People Analytics Board for I4CP, collaborates with USC’s Center for Effective Organizations, writes, teaches, and helps organizations navigate AI and the future of work. She also discusses the upcoming SIOP Leading Edge Consortium, the evolution of people analytics beyond dashboards, and the importance of balancing I/O psychology with data science and business acumen to drive meaningful organizational value.

Uncertain Times Call for Analytics

Sep 2, 2025 | HR Analytics, People Analytics

We are living through a tornado of change in organizations. When things change, our old practices often don’t work as well – or, we’re worried that they won’t work as well. So, we change them – often on pretty shaky evidence. But most of the time when we do this, we are looking at a symptom – not at the root cause. Like a Sisyphean game of whack-a-mole, that root cause keeps throwing up problems in new places.

Hope Springs Eternal, But It is Still Not a Strategy

Jun 27, 2025 | Employee Engagement, Employee Equity, Employee Resource Groups, HR Analytics, Leadership, People Analytics

We started eePulse in 1996 to transform how companies use employee survey data and to commercialize the work I was doing on employee energy, which required a more frequent measurement process because it is the fluctuation of energy, not measurement at one point in...

Podcast: Workforce Analytics: A Global Perspective

Jun 14, 2025 | Employee Engagement, HR Analytics, People Analytics, Strategic HR

Dr. Mark Huselid and Dr. Alec Levenson join the Directionally Correct podcast to discuss their book Workforce Analytics: A Global Perspective, diving into the value of measuring employee variance, the impact of High Performance Work Systems on firm performance, the importance of systems thinking in people analytics-all in one engaging episode.

Benjamin Schneider Lauded for Excellence in Organizational Psychology

Nov 19, 2024 | HR Analytics, People Analytics

Benjamin Schneider has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Using systems diagnostics to drive process improvement and change

Aug 30, 2024 | HR Analytics, Operating Model, Organization Capability, Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, People Analytics, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution, Transformation

This article is the first in a two-part series on applying systems diagnostics to understand the sources of organizational underperformance (this article) and why transformations often fail to deliver (next article). It is based in part on Alec Levenson’s Strategic Analytics book. The issues addressed in the series will be covered in depth in the upcoming virtual workshop Driving Organizational Change with Data.

Webinar: Driving Change with Data and Diagnostics

Jun 25, 2024 | Change Management, Digital Transformation, HR Analytics, People Analytics, Transformation

Join us to learn how data and diagnostics can be leveraged to facilitate strategic change across all layers of your organization, ensuring a cohesive and scalable transformation.

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Building capabilities and changing the organization

Jun 20, 2024 | HR Analytics, Leadership, Organization Capability, Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, People Analytics, Transformation

Executing a (new) strategy means two things. You have to build new capability required for the strategy. And the organization has to change from the old capability to the new. Capability building and change. Simple enough, and easy to say. So why do most strategy executions fail?

A killer app with huge upsides and dangerous downsides: Applying AI to People Analytics

Feb 23, 2024 | AI (Artificial Intelligence), Future of HR, HR Analytics, People Analytics

Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has sparked a significant surge of interest and investment in the realm of generative artificial intelligence (AI). The future trajectory of AI remains uncertain, but one application stands out with confidence: People Analytics (PA). AI’s integration into PA holds tangible potential, offering substantial benefits and immediate realizations. However, this comes with inherent risks that are challenging to mitigate. This article delves into the promising advantages of applying AI in People Analytics while also addressing strategies to navigate and prevent potential pitfalls.

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