World’s #1 CEO Coach on Becoming a Leader Everyone Wants to Follow with Mark Thompson
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
Release Date: 04/28/2025
What an Entrepreneur, a Scientist, and a Security Chief Teach About Future-Ready Leadership
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
The world of work didn't just change, it fundamentally broke the old rules. Forget just 'adapting'—this episode is your essential guide to understanding the radical shifts currently squeezing CHROs and how to build a team that can truly withstand them. In this special episode, we revisit three of our most important conversations from the past year. Entrepreneur and author Mark Matson reframes the American Dream for the modern workplace, revealing how distorted mindsets—entitlement, resentment, and “juicy victimhood”—are limiting performance more than circumstances ever could, and...
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AI Is Complicating Hiring, Remote Work Has a Price, and Careers Are Breaking Down
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
December 24, 2025: The systems we’ve relied on to organize work are starting to crack. In this episode of Future Ready Today, we unpack four stories that reveal how deeply work is being reshaped — often in ways leaders aren’t prepared for. AI was supposed to make hiring fairer and faster, but instead it’s flooding employers with indistinguishable candidates and eroding trust in the hiring process. Workers are debating whether flexibility is worth a massive pay cut, exposing a deeper shift in how people value time, money, and quality of life. LinkedIn’s CEO argues that five-year...
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Remote Work as Privilege, AI at Work, and Why Sundays Are Becoming Workdays
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
December 23, 2025: AI is moving from experiment to expectation at record speed, but employees say leadership hasn’t built the systems needed to support it. Remote work is quietly becoming a privilege instead of a right. And a growing number of professionals are reclaiming Sundays as deep-work days because weekdays have become fragmented and unproductive. In this episode, we examine four stories that reveal a powerful shift underway: the future of work is no longer about where or when people work — it’s about who has leverage, who controls their time, and which organizations can...
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Inside the AI and Innovation Transformation of a 200 Year Old Railroad Company
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
For many leaders, “transformation at scale” feels like an impossible task—especially when employees are overwhelmed, technology is accelerating, and expectations about the future of work keep shifting. But Norfolk Southern has done this successfully in one of the toughest environments imaginable: a 200-year-old freight railroad with a safety-sensitive, unionized workforce. And in this episode, you’ll hear how. Annie Adams, CHRO and former Chief Transformation Officer, shows what operational excellence powered by AI really looks like in practice....
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DEI Faces a Reckoning, The Workforce Is Hesitating, and Degrees Are Losing Value
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
December 19, 2025: Workers are hesitating before changing jobs. Parents are questioning whether college is still worth the cost. Talent shortages persist even as hiring slows. And U.S. regulators are signaling a major shift in how companies approach DEI. In this episode, we explore six key future-of-work stories shaping how people think about careers, education, productivity, and fairness at work. From new data on job mobility and workforce policy to early recession signals and changing attitudes toward vocational paths, these stories reveal a workforce moving from confidence to...
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AI Job Loss Panic Is Wrong—Here’s What the Data Actually Shows
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
December 18, 2025: Is artificial intelligence already replacing jobs—or is that narrative getting ahead of the data? This episode examines new research from Vanguard’s 2026 Economic and Market Outlook, which analyzes U.S. employment and wage data to understand how AI exposure is actually affecting work today. Contrary to widespread fears, the findings show that jobs most exposed to AI—including analysts, accountants, HR professionals, and other knowledge workers—are not disappearing. They are growing. And real wages in those roles are rising faster than in jobs with lower AI...
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This Is Not the Future of Work We Were Promised
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
December 17, 2025: Gartner’s 2026 HR trends reveal how AI adoption is outpacing people systems and managerial readiness; Ford scales back parts of its electric vehicle strategy as regulatory pressure, legacy infrastructure, and workforce realities collide; white-collar job markets tighten while demand grows for skilled, non-automatable work; rising job anxiety spreads across professional roles as career certainty erodes; companies accelerate skills-based hiring as college degrees lose signaling power; and the UK passes a major Employment Rights Bill aimed at reducing job precarity by...
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How to Embrace Generative AI Without Automating the "Soul" of Work
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
AI is failing most companies, trapping employees in digital exhaustion. The real problem isn't the technology, but the organization itself. Forget fixing your models—the path to true transformation is redesigning your workflows, structure, and human collaboration to finally work with AI. In this episode, Rebecca Hinds, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, unpacks insights from the Work Transformation 100 study, revealing what 100+ leaders, technologists, and researchers are doing differently to make AI actually work. You’ll learn how AI needs to be embedded in the...
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GPT-5.2 Reshapes Work, Gen Z Job Struggles, and Why HR Is Becoming an AI Control Center
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
December 12, 2025: Recent data shows unemployment for new college graduates is now higher than the overall workforce — an unusual and troubling signal that entry-level work is breaking down. At the same time, OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 marks a shift from AI as a helper to AI as a task owner, reshaping how professional work gets done and raising hard questions about jobs, accountability, and career paths. We also explore why AI is dramatically expanding the role of the CHRO, turning HR leaders into architects of human-AI collaboration, and how “ghostworking” is emerging as outdated productivity...
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AI Managers, Neurorights, Employee Distrust, AT&T’s Culture Wake-Up, and Disney’s Bold OpenAI Deal
Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan
December 11, 2025: In today’s episode, I break down five major stories reshaping the future of work and leadership. I start with the growing crisis of trust as employees hesitate to adopt new AI tools, then dive into the global debate around “neurorights” and the push to protect cognitive privacy in an era of emerging neurotechnology. I unpack AT&T’s candid admission that cultural fixes came far too late, explore how AI managers are beginning to automate managerial busywork and influence organizational design, and examine Disney’s landmark partnership with OpenAI and what it...
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What does it really take to rise to the highest levels of leadership, and stay there? In this episode, I sit down with Mark Thompson, world’s #1 CEO coach and author of CEO Ready, to explore what to become a CEO-ready leader. We’ll look at the deeper work of top-most leadership: developing functional fluency, mastering seven leadership languages, and aligning your ambitions with the reality of what leadership demands. Mark shares the mindset and methods used by the world’s most successful executives, why building trust with your boss is a make-or-break move, and how to balance confident humility with productive paranoia. We dig deeper into the sacrifices leaders make, the importance of building credibility before asking for responsibility, and how to cultivate stakeholder alignment across functions, not just within your silo. If you're eyeing the next big step in your career, this episode will help prepare you to lead at the top.
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