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The Science of Personality PodcastAuthor: Hogan Assessments
Personality affects the way we relate to the world and the people in it, how we work, who we love, and how other people see us. Although the study of personality is centuries old, our ability to understand and control such a complex and abstract concept is relatively new in the context of history. Featuring some of the worlds leading experts in personality psychology and business, this podcast explores the impact of personality on life, leadership, and organizational success. Language: en-us Genres: Business, Careers, Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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All Things AI with Allan Church
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
Allan Church, PhD, co-founder and managing partner of Maestro Consulting and a former PepsiCo talent executive, joins hosts Jackie Sahm and Blake Lepp to examine where AI can help talent management and where it risks amplifying weak practices. The conversation argues that organizations should clarify purpose, measurement content, tools, and decision use before automating, with particular caution around assessment, feedback, ranking, and career decisions. The three also examine where AI can and cannot support talent management, leadership assessment, and succession decisions. They argue that predictive models can reproduce historical survival and bias rather than reveal future potential, and that psychological expertise, critical thinking, and human judgment remain essential for setting strategy, validating measures, and governing how talent data is used.Connect with Allan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanchurch/ Chapters 00:00 Meet Allan Church, PhD05:05 Church’s AI adoption cycle: intrigue, hype, panic, reality08:45 Why automation reveals talent-process misalignment14:45 Where AI can support talent work, and where it should not lead20:08 AI across selection, development, succession, and onboarding25:39 Why algorithmic rankings can look scientific without valid content28:37 What AI misses in Hogan feedback and personality interpretation31:33 The 40-page AI report that contradicted expert assessment33:35 Why feedback depends on context, disconnects, and human judgment37:51 Match the tool and feedback approach to the purpose39:22 Easy-button AI risks: accuracy, credibility, and privacy40:33 Promotion prediction may measure organizational survival43:15 Why executive performance ratings can be contaminated45:30 Assess future capabilities, not just historical success49:00 Define and measure leadership content with expertise51:18 A digital-leadership model tests what leaders actually value54:58 Sycophantic AI and the need for value-based judgment56:56 Rethinking the nine-box approach to potential01:02:32 Peer influence can become a leadership derailment01:05:02 Why messy organizational data resists simple equations01:08:20 Where AI fits - and which roles still need human judgment01:09:32 The expertise paradox: automation can erase the talent bench01:12:19 AI-generated assessments and the risk of commoditized science01:17:27 How practitioners can tell research from pseudoscience01:21:45 Four principles for responsible AI in talent management01:23:54 Allan on introversion, practice, and building confidence
