Everyone wants to know which AI tool to buy, but far fewer people are willing to talk honestly about what happened after they bought it. After 28 episodes of his previous podcast, Jason Averbook is beginning a new season with a new name and a sharper purpose: Now to Next: The Signal. It is designed to be an hour without the noise, built around candid conversations with executives, technology leaders, and practitioners who are already doing the work of transformation.

These conversations will go beyond polished case studies and easy slogans. Jason wants to understand how work actually changed, where organizations automated dysfunction, who was left behind, and what leaders still have not figured out. The goal is not to feed the fear or manufacture reassurance. It is to stay with the questions that matter, especially when the answers are not clear.

This season is for CIOs, CXOs, CHROs, CEOs, transformation leaders, and anyone curious about people, technology, and the way the world is changing. The premise is simple: AI is not the transformation. You are.

Episode Highlights

• What changes after 28 episodes when the conversation gets more focused?
• Why are so few people asking what actually changed after the AI arrived?
• When does automation become dysfunction moving faster?
• The most useful transformation conversations start where the easy answers end.
• What remains uniquely human when machines can do more of the work?
• The fear beneath the AI conversation may be the fear of becoming irrelevant.

About Jason Averbook

Jason Averbook has spent more than 30 years shaping HR technology and workforce transformation. His career includes leadership roles at PeopleSoft and Ceridian, co-founding and leading Knowledge Infusion from 2005 to 2012, serving as CEO of The Marcus Buckingham Company, and co-founding and leading Leapgen from 2018 to 2023. After serving as Mercer’s Global HR Transformation Leader, he co-founded Now to Next to help leaders prepare people and organizations for an AI-shaped world.

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