Exponential Talent
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin organizational psychologist, entrepreneur, and award-winning scientist-practitioner, Shreya Sarkar-Barney as she explores the scientific basis of human potential, performance, and flourishing in the workplace. In this podcast series on exponential talent, you will hear interviews with experts who reveal talent practices that have a multiplier effect. Shreya is the founder and CEO of Human Capital Growth, an evidence-based talent management firm. In 2019, Shreya was awarded the Scientist-Practitioner presidential recognition by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Shreya is the author of the book “The role of national culture in transfer of training” based on an empirical study covering 49 countries. She is on the editorial board of the SIOP Professional Practice Series. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Technology & People, Organizational Research Methods, and Personnel Assessment and Decisions. She has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and tenure track professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Shreya earned her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University. She is an alumnus of the University of California Entrepreneurship Academy. Shreya lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works globally.
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Supporting Women in the Workplace: What Men should know
October 26, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBYou don’t have to look too far within a professional environment to see that there still exists a significant disparity between the opportunities offered to women and those provided to men. Many of those imbalances lay in employee wages, and other differences lay in the accessibility to higher positions. Because women are at the center of this issue, many deem it just that; “a woman’s problem.” However, mentorship experts Dr. David Smith and Dr. Brad Johnson have shown through their extensiv...
Turning Grief and Loss into Creative Inspiration
December 02, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBHumanity is experiencing an unprecedented level of loss and grief. More than 1.2 million deaths have occurred in the last 12 months due to Covid-19 alone. There's a good chance that each of us has within our close circle someone experiencing these challenges. Yet, in the workplace, the topic of dealing with loss and grief remains a private matter. In this podcast, I speak with Dr. Charles Dhanaraj on his research looking at the cost of grief in the workplace and the resulting impact. This ...
How Leaders can Create Psychological Safety by Encouraging Voice
August 17, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 70 MBJim Detert is the John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. Dr. Detert's research focuses on workplace courage, improvement-oriented voice (why people speak up or stay silent at work), ethical decision-making and behavior, and other leadership-related topics. This research, as well as his consulting experiences, has been conducted across a variety of...
Comparing business execution practices in India vs. the United States
July 11, 2020 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBIn this podcast, our president, Dr. Shreya Sarkar-Barney speaks with Dr. Steve Hunt of SAP Success Factors on business practices in India. The recording was originally hosted on SAP’s Business Execution Radio. The podcast description appears below. Dr. Shreya Sarkar-Barney is the president of Human Capital Growth Inc., a global firm specializing in evidence-based talent management. Shreya’s work experience spans North America, Europe, and Asia. In recent years, Shreya’s work has been focus...
An Evidence-based Perspective on the Future of Work
June 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBIn this podcast, we discuss the topic of the future of work. We all want to know what jobs may go away in the future and what skills are likely to gain importance. While this topic has been gaining prominence in recent years, what’s missing is an organizing framework on how to think about the future of work in a way that’s actionable. Our guest, Dr. Fred Oswald, professor of Psychology at Rice University sheds light on all the influential contributing factors. He also provides a useful fra...
Evidence-based HR: Achieve Better Results Faster
May 15, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBThis podcast was recorded during the HRWest 2020 conference held in Oakland, California. In this talk, Dr Shreya Sarkar-Barney skillfully leads her participants through a set of thought-provoking questions which reveals the value or lack thereof, of many common HR practices. She then guides the audience through a new operating model that positions HR on the critical path to achieving business success. She presents a decision-making framework similar to those used by financial analysts, that ...
The HR Value Chain: A Guide to aligning People, Performance, and Profits
February 11, 2020 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBIn this podcast Dr. Subramony describes the HR Value chain and the benefits it brings to organizations. He discusses the importance of selecting the right set of practices and shares three key bundles of HR interventions that drive extraordinary outcomes. These are the talent bundle, the energy bundle, and the opportunity bundle. Listen to the podcast for advice on which one of these bundles is the most critical and has an amplifier effect. Dr. Mahesh Subramony, PhD is an associate profe...
Advances in Leader Development
January 14, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this podcast, we speak with acclaimed leadership researcher and expert, Dr. David Day. If your organization is looking for more effective ways of developing leaders, here are some innovative ideas based on the most recent evidence. Dr. Day weighs in on recent fads that claim to draw from the neuroscience of leadership and points to more promising areas that help prepare leaders to operate under increasing uncertainty. Dr. David V. Day is Winthrop Professor and Woodside Chair in Leadersh...
Lessons on Leadership: Journey from Humble Beginnings to CEO of Polaris India
January 14, 2020 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBIn our leadership series podcasts, we bring insights from leaders around the world. Our guest in this podcast was Mr. Pankaj Dubey, Managing Director & Country Head at Polaris India Pvt. Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of Polaris Industries Inc. Under his leadership, Polaris India successfully launched the Indian Motorcycle and Polaris Off-road vehicles in the local market. Mr. Dubey also serves as the CEO & whole-time Director at Eicher Polaris Pvt. Ltd. He has deep insights on the Indian marketpla...
Feedback: What works and new frontiers
January 14, 2020 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBProf. Avraham N. (Avi) Kluger is a faculty member at the Organizational Behavior Unit of the School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research on giving feedback demonstrated that it can be detrimental to performance and that even positive feedback can cause deterioration in performance. To explain the puzzle of the detrimental effects of positive feedback on performance, he proposed, with Dina Van-Dijk, that positive feedback reduces motivation ...
The Importance of Courage in Leading Breakthroughs
December 13, 2019 10:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBOur podcast with Dr. Ken Barr, an acclaimed researcher who has led several drug discovery teams around the world. He is an MIT-trained Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry with several patents to his credit. He is currently the executive director and head of R&D Strategic Global Operations at FORMA Therapeutics Inc. Previously, he was with Merck, Amplyx Pharmaceutical, Sunesis, and Abbott Labs. We had the privilege of partnering with Dr. Barr on a project that resulted in the successful ...
Leading Transformation in a Stressed Sector
December 13, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBOur guest in this podcast is a leader who exemplifies humility, courage, and the ability to envision. I first met Dr. Jim MacDonald in 2012. It was in the early days of him taking over the leadership of the San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS) and embarking on a major transformation effort. I was fortunate to partner with Jim and his team on some of the change initiatives. SFTS was struggling financially, the trustees lacked confidence that the institution could survive, and many of t...
Leading L&D Innovation using Evidence-based Practice
December 10, 2019 10:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBHariraj Vijayakumar is a business leader turned chief learning officer and now an entrepreneur. I first met Hariraj when he was a learning leader at Cognizant. Hari saw the value of using analytics to improve learning outcomes much before it was popular. With a deep interest in science, Hari has been a proponent of evidence-based practice and an influential advisor in the design of our evidence-based talent management curriculum. During his time as the chief learning officer at Cognizant, ...
A Systems Approach to HR Analytics
November 04, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBIn this podcast, our guest Dr. Alec Levenson discusses why organizations struggle to derive value from their HR analytics efforts and offers useful suggestions for improvement. He offers ideas that are non-intuitive but have demonstrated results. For example, start with the right questions and the data you have, do not fall into the trap of doing fancy analytics when sometimes simple descriptives are all you need and having analytics-driven insights does not guarantee accurate interpretatio...
Why do Humans Discriminate and What We Can Do About It
September 18, 2019 13:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBWorldwide, perception of discrimination have become widespread despite efforts to promote diversity. We asked Dr. Fiske if we humans are prone to discriminate against others. She describes how the motivational forces that help us survive also cause us to be biased and prejudiced, making it harder to control. In the course of our discussion, Dr. Fiske shared approaches to reducing discrimination that is more effective than diversity training. Some of the more interesting aspects of social cog...
Goal setting: Myths and Truths
September 18, 2019 13:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBGoogle ‘goal setting’ and you get close to 500 million search results. A popular business practice with many points of view, and some management gurus touting its inefficacy. What should leaders do – abandon setting goals and resort to “do your best”? This is the question we asked Dr. Gary Latham, the world’s foremost expert on the topic of goal setting. In this podcast, he shares the scientific-evidence on three types of goals: “do your best,” “specific and challenging,” and “primed” goals....
21st Century Skills for HR Professionals
August 20, 2019 10:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn this podcast, Dr. Victoria Davis discusses the 21st-century skills needed for HR to drive business results and deliver positive employee experiences. Drawing upon her talent management experience at Marriott, Home Depot, and J.P. Morgan Chase she lays out the new skills that are essential for HR to rise to the challenge. She discusses the options available for talent management professionals for advancing their skills. In particular, she compares the various HR and talent management ce...