Clarity in the Middle

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Episodes

1. Episode 7October 13, 2026, 8 min

   Your People Are Worried About AI. Is Anyone Talking to Them?

   Gallup's latest numbers show 27% of U.S. workers now worry technology will make their job obsolete, the highest since they started asking.

2. Episode 6October 6, 2026, 9 min

   Canada had an AI Plan, then the world changed.

   In 2021, the Standards Council of Canada published a roadmap for how this country should govern data and AI. People from government, industry, academia and Indigenous organizations spent two years on it.

3. Episode 5October 1, 2026, 8 min

   The AI Did the Work. Who Owns It?

   A Canadian distributor with 150 people loses its controller of eleven years, can't fill the seat, and buys an AI tool that promises to cover a big chunk of the work. Nobody's being careless.

4. Episode 4October 1, 2026, 7 min

   Your Hiring Filters Are Screening Out the People You Need

   A few years ago, Harvard Business School and Accenture went looking for the people employers keep saying they can't find, and counted more than 27 million of them in the US alone.

5. Episode 3October 1, 2026, 8 min

   Unmanaged AI Is the Risk

   A manager asks the company's AI assistant for a salary range and gets real numbers, pulled from executive HR files she was never supposed to see. Nobody hacked anything and nobody broke a rule on purpose.

6. Episode 2October 2, 2026, 8 min

   When AI Goes Wrong, HR Gets the Bill

   Most organizations build AI governance backwards. Legal and IT write the rules, someone drafts a policy, and HR gets a call at the end to train people or collect signatures.

7. Episode 1September 30, 2026, 2 min

   Trailer

   Straight talk on HR and AI for leaders of organizations with 50 to 500 people, where the specialist is usually you.

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