Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
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Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
Are you ready to lead in the future of work? Most leaders aren't! Join 5x best-selling author & futurist Jacob Morgan as he interviews the world's top CEOs, best-selling authors, and leading thinkers to bring you the insights, strategies, and tools you need to become a future ready leader. Guests in...
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Walmart Partners with ChatGPT, GE Bets on Humans, and the Rise of AI Scapegoating
October 15, 2025: AI is no longer just automating work — it’s reorganizing it.
In today’s episode of Future Ready Today, Jacob Morgan explores...

How Barry-Wehmiller Grew from $18M to $4B by Treating Employees Like Family
What if business leaders cared for their employees the way loving parents care for their children? That simple, profound shift of treating employees l...

The AI Reckoning — Human Quotas, Ethical Bots, and Legal Risk in HR
October 10, 2025: A new era of Responsible Intelligence is emerging.
Governments are considering human-quota laws to keep people in the loop.

Google Pulls Back on Hybrid, Aflac Says We’re All Burned Out, & AI Reshapes Hiring
October 9, 2025: Burnout isn’t always burnout — sometimes it’s just work that’s lost its rhythm.
In today’s Future-Ready Today episode, Jacob Mo...

The Great AI Reality Check: Why Most Companies Are Losing Money, Meaning, and Momentum
AI was supposed to make work faster and smarter — but for many organizations, it’s doing the opposite.
In this episode, Jacob breaks down three...

Booking Holdings’ CHRO on Leading 24,000 Employees at the Crossroads of Culture and AI
CHROs today face a pressing mandate: how to build cultures of clarity and belonging while navigating hybrid work, rising employee expectations, and th...

Sparks: What 150 Executives Taught Me About Employee Experience (And How You Can Use It in Your Advantage)
We’ve all had that moment: working at a job we dislike, then moving to a nearly identical role at a different company, and suddenly loving it. The wor...

What Leaders Must Know About AI Workplaces and Timeless Human Skills
The future of work is unfolding faster than anyone expected, and leaders are scrambling to keep up. In this special Best of the Quarter episode, we re...

Sparks: Bad Leaders Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: Why (And How) Great Leadership Matters in the Future of Work
Bad leadership doesn’t just hurt engagement. It can literally hurt people. Studies show that working under a poor leader is one of the leading causes...

Marriott’s CHRO on Tech, Humanity, and Building a Future-Ready Workforce
What does it take to lead 800,000 employees across nearly 10,000 hotels into the future of work? In this episode of Future Ready Leadership, I speak w...

Sparks: Make Work More Human: Breaking Assumptions About Work and How Employee Experience Can Make or Break Your Workforce
Work is supposed to be human, but too often it feels like the opposite. For decades, we’ve built organizations on outdated assumptions: managers as “s...

Patrick Lencioni Shares What Separates Great Leaders From the Rest
Leadership may come with titles, pay, and freedom, but it also demands sacrifice, and too often, leaders forget this truth. When they do, organization...

Sparks: 8 Attributes You Need to Be a Vulnerable Leader (According to Over 100 CEOs)
What makes vulnerability in leadership powerful, but also dangerous? Leaders often confuse vulnerability with simply admitting mistakes or showing emo...

What Mercer’s CEO Reveals About Work Ethic, Cultural Trends, and the Future of Work
What does it really take to reach the top of an organization? Beyond the glossy titles and corner offices lies a culture of sacrifice, long hours, and...

Sparks: Humans, Not Tools: How Employee Experience Can Unlock Engagement and Bring Humanity Back to the Workplace
We often talk about employee engagement, but before that comes something deeper: experience itself. Just like we invest our own time and money into pe...

Is The Future of Work Ready for AI? Balancing AI’s Potential and Risks with GoTo’s Chief Commercial Officer
AI is shaping the future of work, no doubt, but are organizations truly ready to harness its full potential? Beyond the hype, leaders are grappling wi...

Sparks: The Global Citizen Mindset: How Leaders Should Learn to Break Beyond and Expand their Borders
What if your leadership skills were truly borderless? Could you step into any culture, any team, anywhere in the world—and still thrive? That’s the ch...

What a Skydiving Hall of Famer Can Teach Leaders About Turning Risk Into Opportunity
In business and in life, the most dangerous risk you can take is avoiding risk altogether. Whether it’s leading a team, making strategic investments,...

Sparks: Lead the Future: Why Current Workplace Models and Mindsets are Outdated and How to Change Them
The way we manage people today is built on ideas from over 100 years ago—ideas designed for factory floors, not modern workplaces. Management was orig...

How to Handle Conflicts Without Losing Your Cool, Your Relationships, or Your Job
Why do we struggle with conflict even when we know it's important? In today’s polarized and high-stakes workplace, leaders are more afraid than ever t...

From Drudgery to Employee Experience: Five Trends That Will Shape the Future of Work
If aliens landed on Earth and observed how we work, they’d probably be baffled. We spend most of our lives doing this thing called “work,” yet so many...

Why Empathy, Trust, and Communication Are Every Leader’s Advantage in the Age of AI
Why are so many employees entering the workforce unsure of themselves, lacking confidence, and not quite ready to thrive? And with AI automating more...

Sparks: Want to Get and Retain Top Talent? You NEED to Watch This!
What if your employee perks are actually backfiring… making people disengage faster, not stay longer? The way we attract and retain talent is overdue...

How to Stop Leading from Fear and Start Taking Radical Responsibility at Work
So much of what holds leaders back isn’t strategy or skill. It’s the invisible mindset traps we don’t even realize we’re stuck in. Most leadership cha...

Sparks: The Employee Experience Equation: How Physical Space, Technology, and Culture Can Make or Break Teams
What if your office is making people miserable… and you don’t even see it? We now live in a world of hybrid work. The spaces we work in, the technolog...

The Leadership Mindset You Need in an AI-Driven World
AI is moving faster than any of us can keep up. Every week brings a new tool, every month a new disruption, and leaders everywhere are left scrambling...

Sparks: Be a Better Leader: Five Trends You Need to Embrace to Become Future Ready
The world of work is changing faster than ever! Globalization, mobility, millennials, technology, and new behaviors are transforming how we lead. In t...

The Right Way to Handle Tough Conversations Without Losing Your Team
Most leaders avoid tough conversations out of fear—of seeming harsh, being misunderstood, or facing backlash. But the conversations we dodge are often...

Sparks: Five Trends Reshaping the Future of Work: Why Challenging Convention is the New Normal
What can a world chess champion teach us about the future of work? More than you think. Just like Magnus Carlsen challenged convention to become the g...

How to Use The Six Sources of Influence to Create Behavior Change That Lasts
Great ideas often die, not because they’re wrong, but because no one knows how to influence others to act on them. In leading today’s complex organiza...

Sparks: How Recognition Shows Your Real Culture Beyond Engagement Scores
Most leaders manage culture with dashboards that measure what's easy, not what's true. In this episode of Leadership Spark, KeyAnna Schmiedl, Chief Hu...

What Every Leader Needs to Know About AI, CEO Readiness, and Getting Hybrid Work Right
The future of work is changing, and we can't afford to have our leaders evolve backward by sticking to outdated leadership styles. It's high time for...

Sparks: Five Trends Shaping the Future of Work and How Organizations Should Prepare for Them
The real game of the future of work is how to unstuck yourself from the past. As the workplace keeps changing, new expectations are reshaping what it...

The Shocking Truth Behind Empty Shelves and a Broken Global Trade System
We’ve built a world where products appear with a click and groceries restock like clockwork...until they don’t. When the pandemic hit, it wasn’t just...

Sparks: Recognition Matters: How Small Gestures Can Mean a Lot for Company Culture
What does real employee recognition look like, and why do so many leaders still get it wrong? In today’s Leadership Spark, I explore how one emotional...

How Kettering University Prepares Students for AI, Tech & Jobs of Tomorrow
Is college still worth it? As tuition rises and dropout rates soar, the big question everyone’s asking is: how do we prepare young people for a future...

Sparks: Five Trends Shaping the Future of Work… And How to Thrive In This Changing World
Imagine waking up one day and realizing the world changed, but you didn’t. That’s what it’s like for many organizations today, stuck on a decades-long...

The Black Box of AI: What the World’s Leading Expert Says We Still Don’t Know
AI is the most powerful tool humanity has ever created. Yet, it’s also a black box we barely understand. How do we build the future of work with a sys...

Sparks: How CHROs Can Lead Human Transformation and Shape the Future of Work
Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) are now responsible for shaping the future of work. But to do that, you can’t stay in the HR box. To HR leaders...

Workhuman’s Chief Human Experience Officer on Why Nice Leaders Create Weak Teams and How to Build a Resilient Culture
The workplace is evolving, but not without friction. AI, culture, and leadership expectations are colliding, and while some leaders scramble to keep u...