The Breaking Views

Two seasoned HR leaders sit down twice a month to talk about what's actually happening at the intersection of HR, AI, and business. No scripted intros. No 10-minute bios. Just Theresa Fesinstine and Anthony Onesto pulling headlines, reacting to what's real, and breaking down what it means for people leaders trying to keep up.

Theresa is a 25-year HR Executive, and the founder of peoplepower.ai, an MIT-certified AI Strategist, and author of People Powered by AI. She spends her days training HR teams to build real fluency with AI tools and stop waiting for permission to lead.

Anthony is the creator of AI in HR Today, VP of Platform and Product Marketing at 15Five, and author of The New Employee Contract: How to Find, Keep, and Elevate Gen Z Talent. He's been a CPO, scaled teams from 40 to 3,000, founded an HR AI company before ChatGPT existed, and has lived through every major tech wave from dot-com to mobile to social.

Together, they bring a combined perspective that's hard to find anywhere else: deep HR experience, real fluency in AI and technology, and zero interest in sugarcoating the hard parts.

Each episode starts with what's in the feed - LinkedIn, the news, the latest lawsuit or product launch - and turns it into the kind of conversation HR leaders actually need. When the topic calls for it, they'll bring in specialists. But mostly, it's the two of them doing what they do best: making sense of the chaos, calling out the hype, and figuring out what actually works.

For CHROs, CPOs, HR leaders, and anyone in the people space who's tired of being told AI will change everything without anyone explaining what to do on Monday morning.

Contributors

Host

Anthony Onesto

Here's a short bio for Anthony:

Anthony Onesto is the VP of Platform and Product Marketing at 15Five, creator of the AI in HR Today newsletter, and author of The New Employee Contract: How to Find, Keep, and Elevate Gen Z Talent. He's spent 20+ years scaling organizations, including growing teams from 40 to 3,000 at FreshDirect and 30 to 300 at Suzy, and brings the rare combination of operator experience and AI fluency to every conversation about where technology actually fits in HR. He's also the creator of Ella the Engineer, an initiative designed to get young girls into STEM.

https://www.anthonyonesto.com

Host

Theresa Fesinstine

Theresa Fesinstine is the founder of peoplepower.ai, an MIT-certified AI Strategist, author of People Powered by AI, and adjunct professor at CUNY/CCNY. With 25+ years of HR leadership experience, she's built a practice around closing the gap between how capable people think they are with AI and how capable they actually are. She works with organizations from Bridgewater Associates to public school districts, training HR teams to stop waiting for permission and start building workflows they can use the next day.

https://www.peoplepower.ai