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People Strategy Forum

著者: Sam Reeve
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Every great leader inspires, motivates and rewards their people for performance.

Welcome to the People Strategy Forum podcast, a show that guides leaders to elevate the workforce.

People are at the heart of successful organizations. Team members’ well-being and career development are essential. This show discusses practical and effective leadership strategies for top executives, senior professionals, and talent managers.

Aligning employer and employee objectives is a must. Every team member needs to feel fulfilled and satisfied in order to be fully productive and accountable. This show helps leaders create an engaged workforce that is happily accomplishing daily responsibilities and committed to the organization’s future success. Episodes focus on innovative and integrated talent management tools, including employee recognition, compensation, and development, as well as strategies for building a healthy workplace culture and improving the workforce experience.

On a deeper level, the podcast centers around attracting, growing and retaining top talent. It addresses employee motivation, communication, performance, productivity and the genuine human connections that are essential for every successful organization. Each team member brings their own unique strengths, talents, interests, and passions. By touching on these personal areas, leaders create an environment where employees perform at their best.

Sam Reeve, Howard Nizewitz, and Sumit Singla host the podcast.

Sam has 20-years of diverse compensation experience at leading firms. His time at Barclays, BlackRock, and Automatic Data Processing (ADP) allowed him to see companies evolve from the startup phase to rapidly growing to mature organizations

Sumit has over 15 years of talent management practice across different sectors. His expertise in organizational framework, design thinking, performance management, and business storytelling is unparalleled. He is a favorite speaker at talent management conferences and events across the country.

With these three forward-thinking, passionate people professionals at the helm of the podcast, talent-centric organizations can find relevant and helpful advice.

Special guest co-hosts thought-leaders impart essential tips for making every workplace inspiring and rewarding. Beyond theoretical ideas, these experts share experiences as business leaders that shed light on overcoming challenges and celebrating wins.

Even with generous budgets and advanced tools, having the right team in place is crucial to achieving goals and succeeding. By putting effective programs in place, leaders can expect deeper connections that result in healthy working relationships that spell success across the organization.

Join Sam Reeve, Howard Nizewitz, and Sumit Singla on the People Strategy Forum podcast and learn the keys to elevating the workforce.

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  • Recognition in the Age of AI - Alex Grande
    2026/09/02
    Recognition in the Age of AI: How Leaders Cut Through the Noise and Make Appreciation Matter

    AI has made workplace communication easier to produce, but not necessarily easier to trust.

    In this episode of the People/AI Strategy Forum, Sam Reeve, CEO of CompTeam, speaks with Alex Grande, CEO and Founder of Recognize, about how leaders can make recognition more meaningful as employees face more updates, alerts, automated messages, and AI-generated content.

    Alex brings together psychology, technology, and human behavior to explain why recognition works best when it is specific, connected to company values, and grounded in authentic human judgment.

    The conversation explores how managers can build stronger cultures of appreciation without overwhelming employees with more communication.

    In this episode, you will learn:

    • Why more communication does not always create more clarity

    • How generic AI-generated messages can weaken trust

    • Why recognition should be specific and tied to meaningful contributions

    • How recognition can reinforce company values and desired behaviors

    • Why managers are central to building a sustainable recognition culture

    • How peer-to-peer recognition can strengthen workplace connection

    • Why recognition works better when it is integrated into existing workflows

    • How meaningful experiences and development opportunities can strengthen traditional rewards

    • How AI can summarize recognition data, identify patterns, and support better performance conversations

    • How recognition data may help leaders identify early signs of disengagement

    The core message is simple: AI should help leaders notice and communicate what matters. It should not replace the authenticity that makes recognition meaningful.

    About Alex Grande

    Alex Grande is the CEO and Founder of Recognize, an employee recognition and rewards platform that helps organizations reinforce company values, improve employee engagement, and build stronger cultures of appreciation.

    Learn more:

    https://recognizeapp.com

    About the People/AI Strategy Forum

    The People/AI Strategy Forum, hosted by Sam Reeve, CEO of CompTeam, brings together executives, advisors, researchers, and business leaders to examine how AI, leadership, compensation, workforce strategy, and organizational systems are reshaping business performance.


    If you enjoyed this episode, follow the People/AI Strategy Forum on your preferred podcast platform and join the conversation!

    About the People/AI Strategy Forum
    The People/AI Strategy Forum explores how leaders navigate the intersection of people strategy, leadership, and artificial intelligence. Hosted by Sam Reeve, Founder & CEO of CompTeam, the Forum features conversations with executives, practitioners, and experts shaping the future of work.

    Learn more about CompTeam and the People/AI Strategy Forum at compteam.net.

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    35 分
  • The Most Expensive CEO Mistake - Tom Verboven
    2026/08/26
    The Most Expensive CEO Mistake: Why Boards Must Define What the Business Needs Before the Search Begins


    The most expensive CEO mistake often happens before the search starts.

    Boards begin discussing who they want before aligning on what the business actually needs from its next leader.

    In this episode of the People/AI Strategy Forum, Sam Reeve, CEO of CompTeam, speaks with Tom Verboven, Human Capital Leader at Mercer, about how boards can approach CEO succession with greater strategic clarity, rigor, and discipline.

    Tom explains why succession should begin with the future of the business, not a list of candidates. Before assessing who is right for the role, boards need to define the capabilities, behaviors, experiences, cultural alignment, and leadership relationships the next stage of growth will require.

    In this episode, you will learn:

    • Why CEO succession is a business design decision, not simply a hiring decision

    • How boards can build a clear CEO success profile before beginning the search

    • Why poor succession planning increases financial and organizational risk

    • How strategy, culture, and leadership behavior should shape candidate criteria

    • Why executive assessment should use multiple evidence points rather than intuition alone

    • How interviews, psychometrics, cognitive tools, simulations, and business cases can strengthen selection

    • When internal succession may be stronger than an external hire

    • Why external CEOs need more intentional onboarding and relationship-building

    • How the first 90 to 100 days can shape long-term CEO effectiveness

    • Why succession planning should be treated as an ongoing leadership process

    The central message is simple:

    Boards should define what the business needs before deciding who should lead it.

    A strong succession process starts with strategy, translates that strategy into a clear leadership profile, assesses candidates against that profile, and continues through onboarding, coaching, and board alignment after the hire.

    About Tom Verboven

    Tom Verboven is a Human Capital Leader at Mercer, where he advises clients on creating business value through effective human capital strategies.

    His work spans executive assessment, succession planning, high-potential programs, talent selection, executive coaching, organization structure, change management, and culture realignment.

    Tom has lived and worked across Belgium, the UAE, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, and the United States, bringing a global perspective to leadership, talent, and organizational effectiveness.

    About the People/AI Strategy Forum

    The People/AI Strategy Forum, hosted by Sam Reeve, CEO of CompTeam, brings together executives, advisors, researchers, and business leaders to examine how leadership, workforce strategy, AI, compensation, and organizational systems are shaping business performance.

    Each episode delivers practical insights for leaders navigating growth, transformation, succession, talent decisions, and the future of work.


    If you enjoyed this episode, follow the People/AI Strategy Forum on your preferred podcast platform and join the conversation!

    About the People/AI Strategy Forum
    The People/AI Strategy Forum explores how leaders navigate the intersection of people strategy, leadership, and artificial intelligence. Hosted by Sam Reeve, Founder & CEO of CompTeam, the Forum features conversations with executives, practitioners, and experts shaping the future of work.

    Learn more about CompTeam and the People/AI Strategy Forum at compteam.net.

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    32 分
  • David Dean - AI Is Already Inside Your Business
    2026/08/19

    AI Is Already Inside Your Business: What Leaders Need to Understand About How Work Really Gets Done

    AI is already changing how work happens inside organizations, but much of that change is taking place outside formal processes.

    In this episode of the People/AI Strategy Forum, Sam Reeve, CEO of CompTeam, speaks with the author of The Inbox Between Us about a critical challenge for business leaders: understanding the gap between how work is documented and how work actually gets done.

    Most organizations have a formal operating system. It lives in policies, workflows, approval structures, process maps, and standard procedures.

    But there is also an informal operating system.

    It lives in inboxes, chat messages, meeting transcripts, workarounds, informal handoffs, and the day-to-day decisions employees make to keep work moving.

    That hidden layer matters because AI can only improve work effectively when leaders understand the system people are actually operating inside.

    In this episode, you will learn:

    • Why formal workflows rarely capture the full reality of how work gets done

    • How emails, chats, meetings, and informal workarounds reveal hidden organizational behavior

    • Why AI adoption should begin with discovery before automation

    • How approval delays can expose deeper workload, communication, and process problems

    • Why informal AI use can signal unmet business needs

    • How leaders can use AI to identify bottlenecks, friction, and communication breakdowns

    • Why human judgment, accountability, and lived experience remain essential in an AI-enabled workplace

    • How AI can help leaders better understand communication patterns and organizational behavior

    • Why shared definitions and context are critical when applying AI to human workflows

    The central message is simple:

    Before investing in another AI platform or automating another process, leaders need to understand how the work actually happens today.

    Sometimes the answer is automation.

    Sometimes it is process redesign.

    Sometimes it is clearer accountability.

    And sometimes the most valuable solution is a better conversation between people.

    This episode offers a practical, human-centered perspective on AI adoption and the future of work, focused on helping leaders make better decisions about where technology can create real business value.

    About the People/AI Strategy Forum

    The People/AI Strategy Forum, hosted by Sam Reeve, CEO of CompTeam, brings together executives, advisors, researchers, and business leaders to examine how AI, leadership, workforce strategy, and organizational systems are reshaping business performance.

    Each episode provides practical insights for leaders navigating transformation, improving organizational effectiveness, and building workplaces prepared for the future of work.

    If you enjoyed this episode, follow the People/AI Strategy Forum on your preferred podcast platform and join the conversation!

    About the People/AI Strategy Forum
    The People/AI Strategy Forum explores how leaders navigate the intersection of people strategy, leadership, and artificial intelligence. Hosted by Sam Reeve, Founder & CEO of CompTeam, the Forum features conversations with executives, practitioners, and experts shaping the future of work.

    Learn more about CompTeam and the People/AI Strategy Forum at compteam.net.

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    30 分
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