The Agentic Exec brings you another board-level deep dive into the realities of AI adoption - this time from the people side of the house.

In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Barry-Bayliss, award-winning FTSE Chief People Officer and executive performance advisor, to tear down one of the biggest myths in enterprise transformation: AI is not a tech problem. It’s an operating-model problem, and a people problem - and most legacy organisations are nowhere near ready.

Jordan reveals what’s really coming for HR, culture, leadership, and organisational design as enterprises move toward synthetic organisations where humans and AI agents work side-by-side. Expect straight talk on:

What Enterprise Leaders Will Learn

• Why legacy operating models are already collapsing under AI pressure
• How to redesign your organisation into an ecosystem, not a hierarchy
• Why efficiency gains alone are a race to the bottom
• The cultural landmines: fear, resistance, status, disengagement
• Why C-suite leaders must become AI-enabled first — not last
• How to balance efficiency wins with workforce trust
• Why HR must transform itself before it can transform the business
• How to build AI-ready roles, teams, and leadership behaviours
• The future of people functions: strategic partners, not policy police
• Why the companies who listen will massively outperform the ones who dictate

Jordan doesn’t sugar-coat anything. She breaks down what’s actually required to move a brownfield, politically charged, change-averse enterprise into a flexible, adaptive, AI-enabled organisation - without nuking culture or losing your best people.