Glenn Martin

There is a growing narrative that “building AI agents” is the next step for progressive People teams, and that if you are not experimenting with agents you are somehow lagging behind. I’m hearing this in leadership conversations, it’s all over LinkedIn and it’s certainly filling vendors sales pipelines. I call this the Agent Illusion . The Agent Illusion is the belief that deploying AI agents will unlock productivity on its own, without redesigning workflows, cleaning up data, defining...

Why HR doesn’t have an AI tools problem, it has a judgement problem it cannot yet see. In a recent session with a Global Leadership team, I opened with a simple line: HR does not have an AI tools problem. HR has a capability visibility problem. The room went quiet, and not because it was controversial, but because it was uncomfortably accurate. Across enterprise and scaling People functions, AI adoption is now measurable. Dashboards exist, licences are activated, prompts are being shared, and...

Most organisations are having the same conversation about AI, just with different tools on the agenda. Which platform should we roll out? Which workflows should we automate? Which teams need training first? Those questions are not wrong, they are just incomplete. The harder question, and the one most People Leaders are quietly avoiding, is this: What human capabilities need to be strengthened so people can  work with  AI without surrendering judgement to it? That is where  brain skills  enter...