Talent Sherpa | Business-First CHRO and HR Leadership Podcast
The podcast that helps CHROs, Chief People Officers, and senior HR executives move beyond the support function and become business-first — the right hand your CEO can't run the company without.
Because the top chair isn't an HR job. It's a brand new identity.
Hosted by Jackson O. Lynch — founder of Talent Sherpa, four-time CHRO, and advisor to CHROs, CEOs and boards — with Scott Morris, former CHRO and founder of Propulsion AI. Two people who have sat in the seat, with the scar tissue to prove it.
Each week they name the structure behind the problem. Why you find out after the decision is made. Why your best work stays invisible to the people who fund it. Why nobody ever wrote down what this seat is for. No recycled frameworks. No engagement scores. No performative culture talk.
Episodes work the ground a sitting CHRO actually stands on: the CEO relationship, the board and the compensation committee, the mandate nobody put in writing, human capital as an asset class, talent strategy that shows up in revenue and margin, succession planning that survives a CEO change. Also AI redesigning work without you in the room, the emerging chief of work agenda, and what an exit clock does to people strategy and value creation inside a private-equity-backed company.
If you're in the top HR seat — or close enough to see it — this is for you.
Keep climbing.
Talent Sherpa | Business-First CHRO and HR Leadership Podcast
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