2026 Trend Collection – Reading the Signals
September 15, 2026
Reading the Signals
In Partnership with Workhuman
The theme of this series is finding the signals in the noise around HR and workforce data. Most organizations are drowning in HR data and starving for insight. They are generating a glut of signals every day about productivity, alignment, organizational health, culture, and future — in how people collaborate, who gets recognized, where strengths sit, and where teams are disconnected from strategy. Most leaders never learn to read them.
This series brings senior leaders, CHROs, and practitioners together around a single question — what are the signals that best help us to measure and manage the modern workforce? Each episode can look at this from a different angle: talent development, culture resilience, leadership pipeline, AI adoption, workforce alignment. The connective tissue is the idea of finding the right signal sources to feed AI and make better decisions — with a particular focus on the power of recognition as that source of Human Intelligence.
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Are You Feeding AI the Wrong Data? The Leadership Signals You’re Missing
In this special HR Happy Hour episode, Steve and Trish welcome Tom Libretto, President of Workhuman, to explore why traditional HR data often tells only part of the story, and how recognition data can provide a more human, contextual view of skills, collaboration, influence, leadership potential, and organizational impact.
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How Work Gets Done Now, and the Signals for How to Measure It
In this episode of the HR Happy Hour, Steve and Trish welcome KeyAnna Schmeidl, Chief Human Experience Officer at Workhuman, for a conversation about what leaders can learn when they look beyond traditional reporting and start paying attention to the human signals inside everyday work.
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What Signals is Your Culture Sending Out into the World?
In this episode of the HR Happy Hour, Steve and Trish welcome Saima Rashid, Chief Marketing Officer at Workhuman, for a conversation about the evolving role of employer brand and how recognition data can provide a much more authentic view of workplace culture.
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