
Exponential Talent
Join organizational psychologist, entrepreneur, and award-winning scientist-practitioner, Shreya Sarkar-Barney as she explores the scientific basis of human potential, performance, and flourishing in the workplace. In this podcast series on exponential talent, you will hear interviews with experts who reveal talent practices that have a multiplier effect. Shreya is the founder and CEO of Human Capital Growth, an evidence-based talent management firm. In 2019, Shreya was awarded the Scientist-Practitioner presidential recognition by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Shreya is the author of the book “The role of national culture in transfer of training” based on an empirical study covering 49 countries. She is on the editorial board of the SIOP Professional Practice Series. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Technology & People, Organizational Research Methods, and Personnel Assessment and Decisions. She has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and tenure track professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Shreya earned her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University. She is an alumnus of the University of California Entrepreneurship Academy. Shreya lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works globally.
Episodes
16 episodes
Supporting Women in the Workplace: What Men should know
You don’t have to look too far within a professional environment to see that there still exists a significant disparity between the opportunities offered to women and those provided to men. Many of those imbalances lay in employee wages, and ot...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:29:22

Turning Grief and Loss into Creative Inspiration
Humanity is experiencing an unprecedented level of loss and grief. More than 1.2 million deaths have occurred in the last 12 months due to Covid-19 alone. There's a good chance that each of us has within our close circle someone experiencing th...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:09:10

How Leaders can Create Psychological Safety by Encouraging Voice
Jim Detert is the John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. Dr. Detert's research focuses on workpla...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:41:55

An Evidence-based Perspective on the Future of Work
In this podcast, we discuss the topic of the future of work. We all want to know what jobs may go away in the future and what skills are likely to gain importance. While this topic has been gaining prominence in recent years, what’s missi...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:22:27

Evidence-based HR: Achieve Better Results Faster
This podcast was recorded during the HRWest 2020 conference held in Oakland, California. In this talk, Dr Shreya Sarkar-Barney skillfully leads her participants through a set of thought-provoking questions which reveals the value or lack thereo...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:10:49

The HR Value Chain: A Guide to aligning People, Performance, and Profits
In this podcast Dr. Subramony describes the HR Value chain and the benefits it brings to organizations. He discusses the importance of selecting the right set of practices and shares three key bundles of HR interventions that drive extra...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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38:48

Advances in Leader Development
In this podcast, we speak with acclaimed leadership researcher and expert, Dr. David Day. If your organization is looking for more effective ways of developing leaders, here are some innovative ideas based on the most recent evidence. Dr....
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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32:39

Feedback: What works and new frontiers
Prof. Avraham N. (Avi) Kluger is a faculty member at the Organizational Behavior Unit of the School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research on giving feedback demonstrated that it can be detr...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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30:18

Lessons on Leadership: Journey from Humble Beginnings to CEO of Polaris India
In our leadership series podcasts, we bring insights from leaders around the world. Our guest in this podcast was Mr. Pankaj Dubey, Managing Director & Country Head at Polaris India Pvt. Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of Polaris Industries Inc. Un...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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57:55

The Importance of Courage in Leading Breakthroughs
Our podcast with Dr. Ken Barr, an acclaimed researcher who has led several drug discovery teams around the world. He is an MIT-trained Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry with several patents to his credit. He is currently the executive ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:28

Leading Transformation in a Stressed Sector
Our guest in this podcast is a leader who exemplifies humility, courage, and the ability to envision. I first met Dr. Jim MacDonald in 2012. It was in the early days of him taking over the leadership of the San Francisco Theological Semin...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:07:00

Leading L&D Innovation using Evidence-based Practice
Hariraj Vijayakumar is a business leader turned chief learning officer and now an entrepreneur. I first met Hariraj when he was a learning leader at Cognizant. Hari saw the value of using analytics to improve learning outcomes much before...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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56:01

A Systems Approach to HR Analytics
In this podcast, our guest Dr. Alec Levenson discusses why organizations struggle to derive value from their HR analytics efforts and offers useful suggestions for improvement. He offers ideas that are non-intuitive but have demonstrated resul...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:10:35

Goal setting: Myths and Truths
Google ‘goal setting’ and you get close to 500 million search results. A popular business practice with many points of view, and some management gurus touting its inefficacy. What should leaders do – abandon setting goals and resort to “do your...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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59:38

Why do Humans Discriminate and What We Can Do About It
Worldwide, perception of discrimination have become widespread despite efforts to promote diversity. We asked Dr. Fiske if we humans are prone to discriminate against others. She describes how the motivational forces that help us survive also c...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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58:08

21st Century Skills for HR Professionals
In this podcast, Dr. Victoria Davis discusses the 21st-century skills needed for HR to drive business results and deliver positive employee experiences. Drawing upon her talent management experience at Marriott, Home Depot, and J.P. Morg...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:37
