Talent Sherpa

About Talent Sherpa

You're in the top HR seat. You know the job is bigger than the one you're being asked to do. Has anyone actually shown you how? The Consequential CHRO helps Chief Human Resources Officers, Chief People Officers, and senior HR executives go beyond running the function and become business-first — the consequential leader your CEO builds the business with. Because the top chair isn't an HR job. It's a brand new identity. Because the top chair isn't an HR job. It's a brand new identity. Nobody tells you that. The chair changed, and the altitude it demands changed with it. So the work stays at the height it has always been done at, the strategy arrives after it is set, and your best thinking never reaches the people who fund it. That is what this show is for. We work the ground a sitting CHRO actually stands on: the CEO relationship, the board and the compensation committee, human capital as an asset class, talent strategy that shows up in revenue, margin, risk, and speed. Succession planning that survives a CEO change. Then we go higher: AI redesigning work without you in the room, the emerging chief of work agenda, and what an exit clock does to people strategy and value creation inside a private equity backed company. Every episode shows you what the work looks like from up there, then the first three or four moves toward it. No recycled frameworks. No engagement scores. No performative culture talk. Hosted by Jackson O. Lynch, founder of Talent Sherpa, four-time CHRO and advisor to CHROs, CEOs and boards, with Scott Morris, former CHRO and founder of Propulsion AI. Two people who have sat in the seat, with the scar tissue to prove it. New episodes every Monday and Thursday, 20 to 40 minutes, sometimes longer when the subject demands it. Start with Episode 160, Nobody Can Fail Your Performance Management System, with Marc Effron. Keep climbing.

Publisher

Jackson O. Lynch and Scott Morris

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Dec 2024

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

32 of 176 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   CHROs: Stop Treating Manager Overload Like an HR Problem

   Host [Host Name] interviews CHRO [Guest Name] about why managers' overload stems from workload, not skill, offering a business-first leadership perspective.

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   An AI Screen Nobody Checks Gets Faster at Being Wrong, So Business First HR Grades the Pick and Not the Speed

   Host Josh Davies interviews CHRO and Business-First HR Executive Leadership expert, [Guest Name], about evaluating AI screening tools for actual job performance, not just speed.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Business Acumen Won't Get a CHRO Into the Smaller Room, but a Business-First Call Made While the Decision Is Open Will

   Host [Host Name] interviews CHRO [Guest Name] on how a business-first call, not just acumen, secures critical people decisions before they are finalized.

Inside a recent episode

Business Acumen Won't Get a CHRO Into the Smaller Room, but a Business-First Call Made While the Decision Is Open Will

Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You get invited. You don't have to ask for the invitation. The decision has a piece in it that only you were carrying. So listen to the questions in the room. Your CFO is asking what the freeze does to the two reps. Your head of sales is asking what it would take to keep them through the end of the year. Those are questions that people bring to whoever owns part of the answer. Those aren't orders. Those are questions. And what comes out of that room is one decision, the segment decision and who carries it settled together in the same hour. There's no order four days later because there's nothing left to send you. […]

Who has been a guest on Talent Sherpa

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Marc Effron
• Jackson Lynch
• Scott Morris

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

3,823

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

34

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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