The Future Of Work Podcast With Jacob Morgan | Futurist | Workplace | Careers | Employee Experience & Engagement |

Many managers today spend more time on paperwork and individual tasks than actually coaching their teams. This lack of true leadership hurts the employee experience and stops a business strategy from succeeding. In this episode, Emily Field and I talk about her strategic transition from a McKinsey partner to becoming a first-time Chief People Officer at LPL Financial. She shares her initial 30-day "learning tour" where she focused on listening to employees to understand the company's unique culture before building her people strategy. We also unpacked her "People Leader Operating System" and a "talent flywheel" designed to improve the talent lifecycle from hire to retire. We explore the 50/50 performance management split to measure both business outcomes and human values, as well as using AI as a "superpower" to assist work while keeping human judgment as the main partner. Emily also explains the "people P&L" dashboard to track leadership data, the "align-empower-reinforce" model for training 1,300 leader