Welcome to IRRESISTIBLE 2026 at USC in beautiful Los Angeles! Today we welcome 450 of our closest friends and introduce The Josh Bersin Institute Global HR Excellence Certification (GHRE). This is all focused on preparing you for HR 2030, which we also introduced today. Additional Information Josh Bersin Institute Launch Video HR 2030 Launch Video Details On Launch And New Galileo Capabilities      

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This week we welcome 450 senior HR leaders to our fifth annual Irresistible Conference at the beautiful USC campus in Los Angeles. I want to highlight the big announcements we’re making. First, the launch of The Josh Bersin Institute and the Global HR Excellence Certification Program. Yes, we’ve taken all our research, case studies, maturity models, and vendor information and put it into an experiential, case study based Certification Program to teach you the world’s best practices in all areas of HR. It’s called the Global HR Excellence Certification, or GHRE. This is not only a training and certification program, but much much more. Developed in partnership with the USC Marshall School of Business, the GHRE (Global HR Excellence Certification) gives participants real-world, hands-on experience with complex problem solving issues in HR. Through business simulation and cohort-based learning you experience real situations, industry examples, and learn about our maturity models...

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As we prepare to launch the HR 2030 Initiative next week, I pose an important question. What IS the real role of Human Resources in a world of AI, automation, and business acceleration? As you’ll hear, we believe HR is no longer the policy police, recruiting, training, or pay department. In a world of Agents, a new role has emerged: Dynamic Enablement for Growth. Today I discuss the historic role HR has played over the years, why many people distrust or misunderstand HR, and how HR emerges with an even more important role in the future. And in a world where CEOs believe automation will eliminate many of their workers, HR’s job is not to fight the trend, but rather accelerate it. And the result will be business growth, new career opportunities, and plenty of new jobs. This coming week at Irresistible 2026 we launch HR 2030 and also The...

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One of the most interesting (and disruptive) aspects to enterprise AI is the simple fact that AI Agents and Superagents (read our HR 2030 architecture for more) are not “systems” or applications in the traditional sense. They are “your systems” that learn, grow, and “become your company.” In other words, an AI Agent that does recruitment, or training, or employee service delivery gets smarter and smarter about your company’s uniqueness over time. In an enterprise setting this has massive implications. Think about the “tacit knowledge” or historic experiences, policies, and practices you have. These things, many of which are implicit but not written down, are your competitive advantage. Many of these include policies, cultural behaviors, rules, risk management processes, or just basic “how we do business.” What we’ve done with Microsoft is embedded our entire Galileo intelligence into MS Copilot, and the system “injested and retrained itself” on our intellectual...

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This week was pretty exciting: Microsoft unveiled its Frontier Fine Tuning along with a new hardware stack and developer tools, while NVIDIA launched its foray into PC powered AI. Two big themes here: first is reducing computing cost as data centers start driving up all our AI cost, and second to make AI ever more personal for you and your company. You’ll also see that we’ve optimized Galileo into the Microsoft Copilot and you can get early access below, with GA coming later this summer. Even if you’re not an AI or PC geek this information is important because the way you focus your attention on AI has to change. We launch HR 2030 and the Josh Bersin Institute next week, stay tuned! Additional Information AI Prices Are Going Up, Up, Up – And What This Means For Enterprise AI Satya Nadella Keynote at Build (go to 1:45 for Frontier...

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I’ve decided that the biggest challenge we have in AI is now keeping track of the new words being created. Words like harness, layer, mesh, vector, orchestrator, tools, surface, memory – they all mean very special things. And engineers and marketing people keep dreaming up new ones (spine? pattern? control plane? MCP? LangChain? headless? MCP? mesh? ontology?). In this podcast I do my best to explain what these words mean, and give you a non-technical understanding of how all this stuff works. If people like this I’ll keep you up to date on all these new words. Additional Information (Note that all our research and podcasts are in Galileo) AI Prices Are Going Up, Up, Up – And What This Means For Enterprise AI The Reinvention of Workday: From System of Record to Platform of Agents Could Microsoft Win The War For Enterprise AI? The AI vs. Labor Economy, Why Benefits...

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