Is your career going nowhere fast? Maybe the new CEO wants a new team or AI threatens to make people redundant. Experts say more people are struggling in this economy to climb the corporate ladder. Two top career experts discuss ways to get out of a career rut.

Is the multi-trillion dollar world of private equity undergoing a quiet revolution? An industry known for rapidly buying and flipping companies is now holding them longer—creating a whole new challenge around managing people. We talk to two experts about PE's new leadership playbook for 2024 and beyond.

"I have some difficult news." How top corporate players deliver difficult news to employees could be the difference between courageous leadership and going viral in all the wrong ways. With four in ten firms planning layoffs this year and over half of CEOs expecting economic gloom, we take a deep dive into how to get this critical communication just right.

Don't trust salespeople? Turns out you’re not alone—our data shows only 21% of corporate buyers engage sellers early in the selling process. That's a potential problem for companies—especially as high-level buyers tighten budgets. We speak to a sales team whisperer to learn what today's top corporate sellers are doing to win deals.

With new regulations requiring companies to post salaries ranges, firms are facing a lot of awkward conversations from workers who feel underpaid. Yet many companies still don't seem ready for this. In this Briefings podcast episode, a leading pay expert discusses what steps smart leaders can take.

The holiday season is upon us but the recent wave of retail crime in big cities has made shoppers and employees more jittery than jolly. Three retail experts tell us how retail leaders are addressing a peak season dilemma.

Does anybody understand this job market? Despite low unemployment, nearly half of Americans say the current job outlook is “bad.” But fear not! In this episode of Briefings podcast, we chat with two top experts on how to land a gig in the best and worst of times—and ask for more money.

Does Gen Z have what it takes to make it in the workplace? Three in four leaders say this new generation is “difficult” to work with—so much so that almost half of firms are offering them so-called “etiquette” classes. But is there something leaders are missing out about this group? We speak to a leadership expert on how to bridge a crucial generation gap.

When did office parties become such major snooze fests? Company social events are crucial for culture, but a recent poll found that 35% of employees can’t stand them. We chat with one of America’s top corporate event hosts and a Korn Ferry culture expert to learn what firms can do to bring back the fun.

By last count, there were almost 58,000 AI firms globally—enough to fill a football stadium. Each has some amazing tools that do everything from creating avatars for leaders to concocting entire marketing plans. But how does a company know which tool they can trust? We chat with a pair of AI experts on this mounting dilemma. For more information, check out www.kornferry.com/briefings-podcast  Follow us on www.instagram.com/kornferry/ 

What happens when a company is hacked? Turns out a little-known network of small firms quietly negotiates with the bad guys to get the data back for the company. We take a rare, behind-the-scenes look at ransomware, which one survey found is now the number one concern for the C-suite.   For more information, check out www.kornferry.com/briefings-podcast  Follow us on www.instagram.com/kornferry/ 

Dr. Lis Bellini, Senior Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair, Education and Inpatient Services, Department of Medicine, discusses the increasing prevalence of physician burnout and the need for improving physician wellbeing and engagement.

An interview with Eugene A. Woods, President and CEO of Atrium Health.

Kelly Hancock, Executive Chief Nursing Officer for The Cleveland Clinic and Chief Nursing Officer of the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, discusses Healthcare-specific challenges and action-oriented solutions for emerging through the pandemic and adapting to flourish in the new normal.

In a change to the usual format John Palumbo and Cynthia Stuckey catch up with a Goliath already taking a leaf from David’s playbook. Amy Benzinger head of projects at Cisco Hyper Innovation Living Labs (CHILL) talks about bringing start-up culture to the 70,000+ Cisco team. Discussing why championing agility, innovation and adaptability is key and how “shut up and build it” is what makes their 48-hour rapid prototyping model such a success. 

This week John and Cynthia meet Elad Wallach from Aidoc, an innovative healthcare AI start-up and one of Time Magazine's 50 Genius Companies. Elad discusses how he sees his company’s culture as its Operating System the foundation for everything they want to achieve. But he’s not afraid of failure. Only by accepting failure as part of the day-to-day can businesses empower people and help them grow within an organization, no matter their size.

Inventor, CEO and equality innovator Sarah Collins is best known as the creator of the Wonderbag, a globally conscious 1-for-1 social enterprise. Over the past 11 years over 1.5million Wonderbags have been activated in the Developed and Developing (majority) world.

Top-down hierarchies suck the fun and creativity out of organizations and a quick, bad decision is often better than a slow, good one. That’s the belief of Jason Trost the Founder and CEO of Smarkets, one of the world’s largest betting exchanges. He talks to John and Cynthia about the value of political capital, the necessity of risk, and how teaching people to teach themselves is at the core of his start-up’s culture.

Heather Hartnett of Human Ventures has made it her mission to invest in other exceptional founders. She not only believes the best and most successful companies grow out of pain points but that creativity thrives with constraints–“If you're not out of your comfort zone you're not growing." She gives John and Cynthia the low down on cognitive diversity and how partnering with external innovation shops can help larger organizations adopt some entrepreneurial DNA.

Heather Hartnett of Human Ventures has made it her mission to invest in other exceptional founders. She not only believes the best and most successful companies grow out of pain points but that creativity thrives with constraints–“If you're not out of your comfort zone you're not growing." She gives John and Cynthia the low down on cognitive diversity and how partnering with external innovation shops can help larger organizations adopt some entrepreneurial DNA.

A South African farm might seem an unlikely place for the birthplace of an idea that could save millions. But Sarah Collins used her experience growing up under apartheid in South Africa to create Wonderbag, a revolutionary way of cooking food. She is proud to call herself a poverty activist, a woman transforming the world for women. She talks to Cynthia and John about her commitment to collaboration, keeping people rooted in your purpose and how much she’s learned from her so-called...