The TechWolf Podcast

TechWolf

Artificial Intelligence

Skills

Skills-Based Organization

Workday

Internal Mobility

Techwolf

Skills Data

Workforce Intelligence

Genesys

HSBC

Atlas Copco Group

Skills-Led Workforce Planning

Strategic Workforce Management

Talent Marketplace

Cotality

Job Architecture

Advent Health

Bristol Myers Squibb

Task-Based Intelligence

Skills-Based Hiring

Technology in HR is booming, yet confusing. Many vendors claim to include AI (agents), skills, seamless integrations, and other technologies in their product offerings. In practice, product promises often differ from reality. In this podcast, our host, Julius Schelstraete, holds no-nonsense conversations with business practitioners and thought leaders on everything related to "the skills-based org... more

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Publishes	Twice monthly	Episodes	33	Founded	2 years ago
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“Nothing’s being asked of HR that hasn’t been asked before.” | Deloitte's Kyle Forrest on zero-based work, spotting fake AI agents, and what the CHRO job becomes by 2030

Every vendor at every conference is selling you an agent. Most of them are selling you a workflow with a chat window. Kyle Forrest runs Deloitte’s Future of HR practice and its Next Generation CHRO Academy, and he spends his weeks in the room with CH... more

22 Jul 2026 • 51 min

“What took us months now takes minutes.” | Cotality CHRO Kendra Angier on building a skills engine, engaging the C-suite, and her 12-24mo strategy

Most skills programs never make it out of the spreadsheet. Cotality's CHRO spent nine months trying to hand-build a skills taxonomy before she killed it and started over.

In this episode, Kendra Angier explains how she rebuilt the workforce-intelli... more

26 Jun 2026 • 41 min • Most popular

AstraZeneca’s 4-year Odyssey with skills intelligence | Lara Martinez, Global Director of Talent Intelligence, on why agility beats the SBO label

Everyone wants a “skills-based organization.” Almost no one has built one.

At AstraZeneca, Global Director of Talent Intelligence Lara Martinez Gonzalez has spent four years connecting a tangle of recruitment systems, development platforms, and job... more

17 Jun 2026 • 38 min

"Tell me about your strategy. Skills can wait." | Sandoz's Workforce Intelligence Lead on the one move that flips SWP from push to pull

Most strategic workforce plans never make it past the CHRO's desk. The horizon is five years, the work is detailed, and the business leader you need in the room would rather talk about anything else.

Felipe Hessel runs Workforce Intelligence at San... more

25 May 2026 • 38 min

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Recent Guests

Kendra Angier

CHRO, Cotality (former CoreLogic)

Cotality

Episode: “What took us months now takes minutes.” | Cotality CHRO Kendra Angier on building a skills engine, engaging the C-suite, and her 12-24mo strategy

Lara Martinez Gonzalez

Global Director, Talent Intelligence at AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca

Episode: AstraZeneca’s 4-year Odyssey with skills intelligence | Lara Martinez, Global Director of Talent Intelligence, on why agility beats the SBO label

Felipe Hessel

Leads Workforce Intelligence at Sandoz

Sandoz

Episode: "Tell me about your strategy. Skills can wait." | Sandoz's Workforce Intelligence Lead on the one move that flips SWP from push to pull

Josh Tarr

Director of Skill-Based Organizations at Workday

Workday

Episode: "Sellers close deals 14% faster." | Special Episode: Workday’s Josh Tarr & TechWolf CEO Andreas De Neve on Revenue-Linked Skills Strategy.

Sven Smit

Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co; Co-Chair of McKinsey Global Institute

McKinsey & Company

Episode: "There would actually be a people shortage" | McKinsey’s Sven Smit & Anu Madgavkar on AI, Agents, Robots, and the $100-Trillion Economy.

Anu Madgavkar

Partner at McKinsey Global Institute

McKinsey & Company

Episode: "There would actually be a people shortage" | McKinsey’s Sven Smit & Anu Madgavkar on AI, Agents, Robots, and the $100-Trillion Economy.

Preethi Gowda

Global People Insights HR Data & Innovation Lead at FM Global

FM Global

Episode: "Skills are just a lazy proxy for work." | A transparent debate with FM’s Mike Manning & Preethi Gowda on why business problems must dictate talent data.

Michael Manning

VP HR Data & Innovation

FM Global

Episode: "Skills are just a lazy proxy for work." | A transparent debate with FM’s Mike Manning & Preethi Gowda on why business problems must dictate talent data.

Josh Newman

Vice President, Workforce Skills and Talent Readiness

ServiceNow

Episode: "Stop pushing skills validation on everyone." | Why ServiceNow uses 'pull' talent strategies to find critical engineers.

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Julius Schelstraete

Host of The TechWolf Podcast

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Apple Podcasts	#88	Italy/Technology
Apple Podcasts	#40	United Arab Emirates/Technology

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AstraZeneca’s 4-year Odyssey with skills intelligence | Lara Martinez, Global Director of Talent Intelligence, on why agility beats the SBO label

Q: What's the one claim in the skills, AI and workforce space that business leaders should push back on?

The claim that you should become a 'skills-based organization' as the end goal. The emphasis should be on becoming AI-enabled organizations that use skills as data points to inform decisions, rather than chasing an ideal of a skills-centric structure.

"Stop pushing skills validation on everyone." | Why ServiceNow uses 'pull' talent strategies to find critical engineers.

Q: Can you walk through the decision process in ServiceNow for selecting external technology partners like TechWolf?

ServiceNow's approach includes an RFP/selection experience, weighing vendors on alignment of capabilities, and valuing a partner whose technology—particularly the skills and work intelligence stack—can knit data across skills, tasks, performance, and learning to drive actionable insights.

"Stop pushing skills validation on everyone." | Why ServiceNow uses 'pull' talent strategies to find critical engineers.

Q: What was the decision process to go for external technologies to support this journey, and how do you pick what works for you?

The decision process involves a competitive landscape of vendors with overlapping capabilities, a preference for partners with deep specialisms, and valuing TechWolf's skills engine for powering the talent signature and the integration capabilities that feed ServiceNow's data lake, enabling the UX layer to act on the data.

"There would actually be a people shortage" | McKinsey’s Sven Smit & Anu Madgavkar on AI, Agents, Robots, and the $100-Trillion Economy.

Q: Which entry-level and feeder roles would you automate and which would you deliberately protect?

The view is that most entry-level roles rely on tacit knowledge and that the focus should be on right-sizing those roles and accelerating growth in tacit judgment, rather than simply eliminating jobs. The conversation emphasizes developing people quickly to take on higher judgment tasks as AI is introduced, rather than wholesale cuts in entry-level hiring.

Fixing Skills Data with AI | Creating Insights from Skills | Lessons from Data Science with Robert Gibby

Q: How ready was the organization for a skill-based model when you started?

There was strong excitement once the value became clear; the emphasis shifted to culture-building and demonstrating how skills could amplify opportunities and trust across the organization.

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What is The TechWolf Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

The show consistently centers on skills-based HR, workforce planning, and AI-enabled talent strategies, with practitioners and C-suite HR leaders sharing pragmatic insights rather than hype. Across episodes, listeners learn how large organizations pilot, scale, and govern skills-led transformations, including governance, data quality, and change management. Notable threads include building business cases for skills initiatives, leveraging data to tie workforce capability to strategic outcomes, and navigating organizational culture and cross-functional alignment during AI adoption. A standout aspect is the blend of practitioner stories with strategic guidance from high-profile HR tech and consulting leaders, making it helpful for listeners e... more

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5. Sven Smit
6. Anu Madgavkar
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