HR Besties: Workhuman Live 2025 with KeyAnna Schmiedl
HR BESTIES
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4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
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Check your surroundings (and wait three more stops…)
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Cringe corporate speak: open the kimono (and special bonus: mowing someone else's lawn)
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Hot topic: all things AI - being human in the age of AI at work with special meeting crasher KeyAnna Schmiedl, Chief Human Experience Officer at Workhuman
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How will AI impact the workplace?
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Feeling in control in our roles
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Keeping the unique human touch while benefiting from AI efficiency
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AI tools can allow HR professionals to focus on the human aspects of their jobs
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Predicting how the workplace will be reshaped with AI
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Applying transparency, humility and authenticity to every role in the AI space
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| 1:01.5 | sponsored by WorkHuman. Hello, besties. Welcome to our recurring staff meeting. Are we excited, ladies? |
| 1:12.6 | Woo-woo! |
| 1:13.6 | Now, I would be remiss if I didn't take note that we have a meeting |
| 1:19.6 | Crasher with us today. |
| 1:21.6 | From the department down the hall, welcome Keanu Schmiddle. She is the chief human experience officer at work human and rocking it. |
| 1:35.3 | My opinion, but everybody else is too. |
| 1:38.3 | Welcome, Meeting Crasher. |
| 1:40.3 | Hello. |
| 1:41.3 | Thank you so much for allowing me to crash said meeting. Of course. Thank you. Did you bring snacks? |
| 1:47.1 | Well, in my pockets. Okay. Well, but I was told that they would crinkle with the microphone. |
| 1:52.4 | Okay. All right. We'll get them after. That's fine. That works. Okay. Oh, gosh. Well, it is so wonderful to have you, |
| 1:58.3 | our meeting today. Can you give us a brief intro, the little elevator speech, anything you want to share about yourself? |
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