The Pluralsight Podcast
Built for leaders, innovators, and continuous learners, the Pluralsight Podcast spotlights the people shaping the future of technology and skill development. Each bi-weekly episode features stories, lessons, and practical insights to put into action, preparing you for what’s next in tech.
Hosted by Josh Burkhead
Why do learning programs stall even after the licenses are bought? Alice Meredith, culture strategist and Pluralsight author of more than 40 courses, explains why the platform is not the problem: a leader drives learning, and L&D doesn't own those KPIs. She shares her GAS framework for low engagement, the case for LQ over IQ, and a reality-sorting exercise that turns emotional statements into fixable facts.
What happens when you ask three LLMs to check your work, then make them vote? Tim Warner, Principal Pluralsight Author and Microsoft MVP, shares what tech and L&D leaders get wrong in the AI gold rush, why shadow AI is the new shadow IT, and how to pair training with guardrails teams will actually use. Then he demos LLM-powered security scanning in GitHub, complete with quorum voting.
Two leaders, one bank, one AI transformation. SEB's Kimberly Lejonö (technology) and Gabriela Almonacid (L&D) reveal what happens when tech and learning compare notes: shipping AI agents inside a regulated bank, tripling manager engagement, and why 80 to 90 percent of transformation is people work, not technology.
Cloud architect and Pluralsight author Andru Estes has seen this movie before: the AI gold rush is repeating cloud adoption's mistakes. He breaks down why being certified doesn't mean being qualified, where costs quietly spiral, the coming vibe coding cleanup, and the hands-on habits that keep your skills relevant.
What happens when you try to run a company with zero humans? Matt Kropp, Senior Partner and Chief AI Officer at BCG X, is finding out with Vessica Labs, where AI agents set the strategy, write the code, and run the operations. We dig into what the experiment has revealed, from bias hiding in enterprise AI systems to the BCG research behind "AI brain fry."
Every company wants to be "AI-first," but what does that actually signal to your customers and employees? In this episode, business school professor and C-suite advisor Bipasha "B.G." Ghosh makes the case that "AI-first" is the wrong North Star, and that a strong learning culture is what separates organizations that adopt AI well from those that stall.