What’s the value of employee experience if you can’t tie it to business performance results?

In this special bonus episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined Katarina Coppé and Jake Mealy, respectively Senior Partner and Chief Data Solutions Officer at Welliba.

Drawing on new research analysing over 25 million data points across the S&P 500, they unpack the direct link between employee experience and financial performance, showing why companies with stronger employee sentiment consistently outperform the market.

Join them to learn more about:

• Why traditional employee listening models are breaking down and what’s replacing them
• How external data can reveal competitive blind spots in attraction and retention
• The surprising link between employee experience and shareholder returns
• Why “fixing the floor” matters more than chasing high engagement scores
• How HR can bring employee experience into board-level and investor conversations
• Practical steps to move from insight to action - faster

Welliba, winner of the 2024 HR Unleash Global Startup Award, is redefining people, culture and organisational insights.

Using the latest AI technologies combined with behavioural science, their EXcelerate solution, instantly analyses all available public data, delivering deep insights into people and organisations - without the need for surveys. Discover how you can elevate your talent strategy, transform your workforce, and stay ahead of your competitors.

Learn more at offer.welliba.com/insight222-2026

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When your business is transforming, how do you make sure your people strategy is part of leading that change?

In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Mattijs Mol, VP of HR Technology, Strategy and Insights at Wärtsilä, to explore what it really takes to run a people analytics function inside a business undergoing fundamental change.

Join them, as they discuss:

• Why transformation creates new demands on people analytics and how to meet them
• What capabilities matter most when bringing workforce data sources together
• How to make wellbeing land with the business by connecting it directly to performance
• How AI is reshaping the people analytics function and the wider workforce
• Where the boundaries should be when AI starts influencing real workforce decisions
• What the people analytics function could look like in five years

This episode is sponsored by Visier.

Visier Workforce AI is your GPS for workforce decisions. Spot attrition risk, uncover pay gaps, measure leadership impact, and track skills shortages before they slow growth. Then act. Align talent to real business outcomes.

Across industries, HR and business leaders are using Visier Workforce AI to navigate the biggest workforce shifts of our time. Move from knowing to doing, faster.

See it in action at visier.com

Also, make sure to read to explore Visier’s latest research on strategic workforce planning in the AI era.

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AI, layoffs, reskilling - everyone’s reacting to the same headlines. The question is: are they making the right decisions because of them?

In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Kate O’Neill, Tech Humanist, keynote speaker, and author of What Matters Next, to explore how leaders can make more deliberate, context-aware decisions in a landscape shaped by constant change.

Join them, as they discuss:

• Why reacting to headlines can lead to poor decision-making
• How to take a more structured, long-term view of change
• The ultimate approach to prioritising in complex environments
• What meaningful upskilling looks like in the age of AI
• Why prompting reflects a deeper shift in how work gets done
• How to build trust and communicate change more effectively

This episode is sponsored by Visier.

Visier Workforce AI is your GPS for workforce decisions. Spot attrition risk, uncover pay gaps, measure leadership impact, and track skills shortages before they slow growth. Then act. Align talent to real business outcomes.

Across industries, HR and business leaders are using Visier Workforce AI to navigate the biggest workforce shifts of our time. Move from knowing to doing, faster.

See it in action at visier.com

Also, make sure to read to explore Visier’s latest research on strategic workforce planning in the AI era.

Resources:

What Matters Next: A Leader's Guide to Making Human-Friendly Tech Decisions

We can not leave meaning to machine - TED talk

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