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foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work
You’re leading people through constant change. Evolving expectations, AI disruption, and rising pressure to get culture and performance right.
If you’re an HR leader, People and Culture executive, or senior business leader shaping the future of work, foHRsight is for you.
foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work is a weekly podcast from future foHRward, hosted by Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman Colla. Each episode explores the most pressing issues facing HR and leadership today, including employee engagement, retention, flexible work, leadership effectiveness, and the real impact of AI on organizations.
Through candid conversations with CHROs, senior leaders, and forward-thinking experts, foHRsight delivers practical insight and strategic perspective you can apply immediately. The goal is simple: help you make better people decisions, build stronger organizations, and lead with confidence in an increasingly complex world of work.
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foHRsight: HR, Leadership & the Future of Work
What High Performing Teams Do Differently With Meetings with Rebecca Hinds
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Most leaders know meetings are broken. What’s harder to admit is that we keep reinforcing the system that makes them that way.
Calendars are full. Teams are exhausted. And yet, meetings continue to multiply. Not because they work, but because they signal work.
In this episode, Rebecca Hinds challenges the idea that meetings are just a scheduling problem. She reframes them as a deeper organizational issue rooted in visibility, status, and outdated ways of measuring value.
You’ll hear why meetings often aren’t the root problem, but the most visible symptom. Why hybrid work and AI haven’t fixed collaboration, and in many cases have made it worse. And what it actually looks like to design meetings and workflows with intention, not habit.
For HR leaders, this conversation is a wake-up call. Not just to reduce meetings, but to rethink how work itself is defined, measured, and experienced.
Because if we don’t change it deliberately, AI will simply help us do more of what isn’t working.
About our guest
Rebecca Hinds is a leading expert in organizational behavior who works with companies navigating the challenges of modern work. She founded the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean, where she bridges the gap between academic research and real organizational practice. Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She is also an instructor for CNBC's Make It Masterclass: How to Use AI to Be More Productive and Successful at Work, and the author of Your Best Meeting Ever.
Key Topics & Timestamps
[~12:50] Check-In: Rebecca's best meeting ever
[~19:40] Why meetings got worse after the pandemic
[~22:10] Visibility bias: why we equate busyness with value
[~24:45] The WWII sabotage manual
[~27:00] The $1.4 trillion problem
[~30:10] Meetings as your most expensive, overlooked product
[~35:45] "Process is a proxy"
[~36:00] Where AI helps and where it hurts meetings
[~38:30] The brainstorming debate: to AI or not to AI?
[~43:40] One tip for HR leaders: where to start
[~45:05] It's okay to cancel
Resources & Links
- 📘 Book: Your Best Meeting Ever by Rebecca Hinds
- 🌐 Website: rebeccahinds.com
- 🔬 Work AI Institute: workai.institute
- 💼 LinkedIn: Rebecca Hinds
- 📺 CNBC Make It Masterclass: How to Use AI to Be More Productive and Successful at Work
Stay connected with foHRsight
For more information on our private community for forward-thinking HR leaders, including how to join our next Manager-Director HR Leader cohort launching this spring, visit our website at futurefohrward.com/community. We are also currently welcoming new members in our CHRO and VP+ HRBP & Talent cohorts. Don't miss your chance to join the community you've been missing!
