Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
Kanaal Besonderhede
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
Are you ready to lead in the future of work? Most leaders aren't! Join 5x best-selling author & futurist Jacob Morgan as he interviews the world's top CEOs, best-selling authors, and leading thinkers to bring you the insights, strategies, and tools you need to become a future ready leader. Guests in...
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CEOs Tighten Control, Cities Regain Power, and Flexibility Faces Legal Limits
November 6, 2025: Five major stories reveal how the rules of work are being rewritten worldwide. Australia's landmark ruling makes remote work a legal...
Walmart's $620K Pay Strategy, Massive Layoffs, Gen Z's Career Crisis, and the Rise of Tech Anxiety
November 5, 2025: In today's episode of Future Ready Today, I explore five major shifts reshaping the modern workplace. Walmart is redefining loyalty...
Palantir's Anti-College Fellowship, KPMG's AI Agents, and the Death of the 9-to-5
November 4, 2025:
The traditional systems of education, work, and performance are being upended. Across industries, new signals are emerging th...
What Every CHRO Must Know About Building a Skill-Based Organization with AI
As companies race to adapt to the rapid AI takeover, many are discovering that their biggest challenge isn't technological change, but knowing what th...
AI Replacing Consultants, Gen Z's Leadership Wake-Up Call, and Why Big Tech's $400 Billion Still Isn't Enough
October 31, 2025: In today's Future Ready Today, PwC quietly abandons its global hiring target as AI begins replacing entry-level consultants and resh...
Experience Is Now a Liability? CEOs Turn Cautious, and AI Takes Over Reviews
October 30, 2025: Today's episode explores the shifting dynamics shaping business and leadership. Across industries, experience itself is being questi...
White-Collar Jobs Disappear, AI Targets Middle Managers, JPMorgan Doubles Down on Office Work
AI is tearing through corporate America — and this time, it's coming for white-collar jobs. Tens of thousands of office workers are being laid off as...
The Corporate Reset: Amazon's AI Mandate, UPS Job Cuts, Gen Z Reality Check, and the Return of Performance Culture
October 28, 2025: Companies are re-establishing discipline after years of expansion, excess, and employee-first drift. This episode explores five majo...
CHRO Rob Kowalski On How Novartis Is Reimagining HR With Human-Centered Experiences
The real challenge for today's HR leaders isn't adopting AI, but ensuring people still feel seen, heard, and valued in a world shaped by it. Today's C...
Amazon’s 600,000 Robots, OpenAI’s New Browser, and the Rebellion Inside EA
October 22, 2025: In this episode of Future Ready Today, Jacob Morgan unpacks five powerful stories defining the next era of leadership and work:
Vibe Working, Recruiting Crisis, Loyalty Shift, and Education Struggling to Keep Up With AI
October 20, 2025: In this episode of Future Ready Today, Jacob Morgan breaks down five major stories that show how leadership, learning, and loyalty a...
The Counterintuitive Hiring Secret That Built Royal Caribbean's $16B 'Culture of Wow'
What does it take to build a culture so strong that it powers 68 ships, 100,000 employees, and 12 million ecstatic guests each year? In this episode,...
Anti-DEI Speaker Sparks Outrage, Shadow AI, Gen Z Chooses AI Over Humans, & Only 40% of Jobs Are Quality
Friday October 17, 2025: In this episode of Future Ready Today...
The Wall Street Journal reports that SHRM's invitation to anti-DEI speaker Rob...
Amazon Cuts HR Jobs, Gen Z Turns to TikTok, and CEOs Predict a 3-Day Workweek
October 16, 2025: Amazon is cutting 15% of its HR team, signaling a shift from administrative people functions to data-driven, AI-powered HR. Younger...
Walmart Partners with ChatGPT, GE Bets on Humans, and the Rise of AI Scapegoating
October 15, 2025: AI is no longer just automating work — it's reorganizing it.
In today's episode of Future Ready Today, Jacob Morgan explores...
How Barry-Wehmiller Grew from $18M to $4B by Treating Employees Like Family
What if business leaders cared for their employees the way loving parents care for their children? That simple, profound shift of treating employees l...
The AI Reckoning — Human Quotas, Ethical Bots, and Legal Risk in HR
October 10, 2025: A new era of Responsible Intelligence is emerging.
Governments are considering human-quota laws to keep people in the loop.
Google Pulls Back on Hybrid, Aflac Says We’re All Burned Out, & AI Reshapes Hiring
October 9, 2025: Burnout isn't always burnout — sometimes it's just work that's lost its rhythm.
In today's Future-Ready Today episode, Jacob Mo...
The Great AI Reality Check: Why Most Companies Are Losing Money, Meaning, and Momentum
AI was supposed to make work faster and smarter — but for many organizations, it's doing the opposite.
In this episode, Jacob breaks down three...
Booking Holdings’ CHRO on Leading 24,000 Employees at the Crossroads of Culture and AI
CHROs today face a pressing mandate: how to build cultures of clarity and belonging while navigating hybrid work, rising employee expectations, and th...
Sparks: What 150 Executives Taught Me About Employee Experience (And How You Can Use It in Your Advantage)
We've all had that moment: working at a job we dislike, then moving to a nearly identical role at a different company, and suddenly loving it. The wor...
What Leaders Must Know About AI Workplaces and Timeless Human Skills
The future of work is unfolding faster than anyone expected, and leaders are scrambling to keep up. In this special Best of the Quarter episode, we re...
Sparks: Bad Leaders Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: Why (And How) Great Leadership Matters in the Future of Work
Bad leadership doesn't just hurt engagement. It can literally hurt people. Studies show that working under a poor leader is one of the leading causes...
Marriott’s CHRO on Tech, Humanity, and Building a Future-Ready Workforce
What does it take to lead 800,000 employees across nearly 10,000 hotels into the future of work? In this episode of Future Ready Leadership, I speak w...
Sparks: Make Work More Human: Breaking Assumptions About Work and How Employee Experience Can Make or Break Your Workforce
Work is supposed to be human, but too often it feels like the opposite. For decades, we've built organizations on outdated assumptions: managers as "s...
Patrick Lencioni Shares What Separates Great Leaders From the Rest
Leadership may come with titles, pay, and freedom, but it also demands sacrifice, and too often, leaders forget this truth. When they do, organization...
Sparks: 8 Attributes You Need to Be a Vulnerable Leader (According to Over 100 CEOs)
What makes vulnerability in leadership powerful, but also dangerous? Leaders often confuse vulnerability with simply admitting mistakes or showing emo...
What Mercer’s CEO Reveals About Work Ethic, Cultural Trends, and the Future of Work
What does it really take to reach the top of an organization? Beyond the glossy titles and corner offices lies a culture of sacrifice, long hours, and...
Sparks: Humans, Not Tools: How Employee Experience Can Unlock Engagement and Bring Humanity Back to the Workplace
We often talk about employee engagement, but before that comes something deeper: experience itself. Just like we invest our own time and money into pe...
Is The Future of Work Ready for AI? Balancing AI’s Potential and Risks with GoTo’s Chief Commercial Officer
AI is shaping the future of work, no doubt, but are organizations truly ready to harness its full potential? Beyond the hype, leaders are grappling wi...
Sparks: The Global Citizen Mindset: How Leaders Should Learn to Break Beyond and Expand their Borders
What if your leadership skills were truly borderless? Could you step into any culture, any team, anywhere in the world—and still thrive? That's the ch...
What a Skydiving Hall of Famer Can Teach Leaders About Turning Risk Into Opportunity
In business and in life, the most dangerous risk you can take is avoiding risk altogether. Whether it's leading a team, making strategic investments,...
Sparks: Lead the Future: Why Current Workplace Models and Mindsets are Outdated and How to Change Them
The way we manage people today is built on ideas from over 100 years ago—ideas designed for factory floors, not modern workplaces. Management was orig...
How to Handle Conflicts Without Losing Your Cool, Your Relationships, or Your Job
Why do we struggle with conflict even when we know it's important? In today's polarized and high-stakes workplace, leaders are more afraid than ever t...
From Drudgery to Employee Experience: Five Trends That Will Shape the Future of Work
If aliens landed on Earth and observed how we work, they'd probably be baffled. We spend most of our lives doing this thing called "work," yet so many...
Why Empathy, Trust, and Communication Are Every Leader’s Advantage in the Age of AI
Why are so many employees entering the workforce unsure of themselves, lacking confidence, and not quite ready to thrive? And with AI automating more...
Sparks: Want to Get and Retain Top Talent? You NEED to Watch This!
What if your employee perks are actually backfiring… making people disengage faster, not stay longer? The way we attract and retain talent is overdue...
How to Stop Leading from Fear and Start Taking Radical Responsibility at Work
So much of what holds leaders back isn't strategy or skill. It's the invisible mindset traps we don't even realize we're stuck in. Most leadership cha...
Sparks: The Employee Experience Equation: How Physical Space, Technology, and Culture Can Make or Break Teams
What if your office is making people miserable… and you don't even see it? We now live in a world of hybrid work. The spaces we work in, the technolog...
The Leadership Mindset You Need in an AI-Driven World
AI is moving faster than any of us can keep up. Every week brings a new tool, every month a new disruption, and leaders everywhere are left scrambling...