{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The WorkOps Podcast","title":"Illumio names its HR agents and puts them on the org chart","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2872,"description":"Summary\nL. David Kingsley, Chief People Officer at Illumio, joins Jeet Mukherjee on The WorkOps Podcast to talk about what AI is doing to the People function from inside a zero trust cybersecurity company. David spent 13 years in management consulting at Accenture and Booz Allen before a single moment changed his path: he asked a disruptive HR business partner to leave his account planning meeting, then started wondering what HR would look like if it showed up differently. Salesforce called soon after, and he has led People teams ever since.\nThe conversation covers the anti pattern he sees in early career teams, a 14 slide deck produced in 17 minutes that skips the learning that comes from building it yourself, and his rule that AI work should never take longer to read than it took to make. David explains how Illumio governs AI inside its own Copilot instance, why HR has to move from necessary evil to trusted advisor to earn a voice on the future of work, and how recruiting coordination has changed almost overnight. He also describes the month every member of his people team built and named an AI agent, from LL Coolpay in compensation to Ingrid in people operations, and his plan to put those agents on the org chart. For CHROs, People Ops leaders and anyone deciding where agents belong in the HR operating model.\n\nChapters\n00:00 Cold open\n00:54 Welcome L. David Kingsley, Chief People Officer at Illumio\n02:53 The day he asked HR to leave the meeting\n07:57 AI slop and the learning early career people skip\n15:52 Process maps in minutes, not weeks\n18:50 AI governance inside a walled garden\n23:20 From necessary evil to trusted advisor\n31:16 The chief workforce officer and the new shape of HR\n36:51 AI agents with cheeky names on the org chart\n42:38 One front door for every employee\n\nTakeaways\n- AI can produce a polished 14 slide deck in 17 minutes, but early career people who skip the whiteboard to final draft process also skip the pattern matching that makes them...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Eh8J8csrLvAf-gfZx2fx-hND9gquazmC6b15qkZyyGA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMWNj/OTM3ZjEzMWFkMzQw/NjcwMzQyYTI4MTY3/MGRhMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}