What can your digital footprint reveal about how work really gets done?

In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green sits down with Brydie Lear, VP of People Analytics & Insights at Expedia Group, to explore how her team is harnessing people data at scale to understand performance, influence, and organisational effectiveness in real time.

Tune in as they discuss:

• The key differences in how industries approach people analytics
• Why influence, not just insight, is the real game-changer in people analytics
• How Expedia uses digital signals and ONA to track how work flows
• The art of prioritising what really matters in a sea of data

This episode, sponsored by Worklytics, is packed with lessons for anyone building, leading, or rethinking people analytics in a digital-first world.

Worklytics helps leaders understand how work actually happens with data-driven insights into collaboration, productivity, and AI adoption.

By analysing real work patterns - from meetings to tool usage - they empower teams to work smarter, not harder.

And here’s something special: Worklytics is offering Digital HR Leaders listeners a complimentary AI adoption assessment to understand how your teams are really using AI - and where untapped potential lies. But don’t wait - spots are limited.

Learn more at worklytics.co/ai

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If people really are our greatest asset, why is wellbeing still treated like a perk instead of a priority?

In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green explores this very question with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Professor of Economics and Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at University of Oxford, co-editor of the World Happiness Report, and co-author of Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters.

Tune in as Jan shares eye-opening insights from a massive global dataset of over 25 million workers, revealing why employee wellbeing is a business-critical priority.

You’ll hear:

• The real drivers of happiness at work (and why most companies get it wrong)

• How employee wellbeing directly impacts performance, retention and recruitment

• The role of AI in shaping the future of meaningful, human-centered work

This is a must-listen for HR and business leaders ready to shift from wellbeing-as-an-initiative to wellbeing-as-a-strategy.

This episode is sponsored by Mercer.

To thrive in an AI-augmented world, organisations must rethink how work gets done. Mercer’s Work Design solution uses AI to deconstruct jobs, redeploy tasks, and redesign work for greater agility, productivity, and impact.

Unlock your team’s full potential. Learn more at mercer.com/wfdemo

Links to resources:

World Happiness Report

Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters

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If you're looking for honest lessons from the frontline of skills transformation, this episode is for you.

Picking up from last week’s strategic deep-dive with Ravin Jesuthasan and Brian Fisher at Mercer, this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast takes a practical turn, exploring what it really looks like to bring a skills-powered strategy to life inside a global organisation.

Joining host David Green is Amy Baxendale, Global Future of Workforce Director at Arcadis, who has spent the past three years leading a bold transformation to embed skills-based thinking across the company.

From reimagining workforce planning to enabling talent mobility and cultural change, Amy shares a rare, unfiltered view into the challenges and breakthroughs that define real progress.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• What triggered Arcadis' shift to a skills-first model, and how they got started

• How to navigate early implementation hurdles and complex change dynamics

• Approaches to gaining executive buy-in and aligning with business strategy

• Why governance and structure are key to sustainable transformation

• Ways to track progress - beyond ROI - to include engagement and agility

• Unexpected lessons and eye-opening moments from the journey

• What the future holds as skill demands continue to evolve rapidly

Whether you’re planning, piloting, or scaling a skills-based approach, this episode is packed with insight, inspiration, and grounded advice from someone who’s done the work.

This episode is sponsored by Mercer.

To thrive in an AI-augmented world, organisations must rethink how work gets done. Mercer’s Work Design solution uses AI to deconstruct jobs, redeploy tasks, and redesign work for greater agility, productivity, and impact.

Unlock your team’s full potential. Learn more at mercer.com/wfdemo

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