Peggy Smedley Show

Technology is changing the way work is done. How can industries keep up with the demand of innovation? Peggy Smedley takes a stance, and holds leaders responsible for the task of skilling, reskilling…

Gregg Witt, partner and chief strategy officer, Engage Youth Co., and author of "The Gen Z Frequency: How Brands Tune In and Build Credibility", explains the similarities and differences between Baby…

Mike Walsh, global futurist and CEO of Tomorrow, and author of "The Algorithmic Leader", describes the different styles of organizations that are succeeding in digital transformation. He discusses th…

Robots are changing the market, and these changes  benefit companies. Peggy Smedley explains how cobots, collaborative robots, are enhancing human productivity. Company leaders continue to bring auto…

Peggy and Juliana Stancampiano, author, Radical Outcomes and entrepreneur and CEO of Oxygen, discuss how training or re-skilling of employees is really broken. She says we have strayed so far from th…

Peggy and Paul Vragel, president, 4aBetterBusiness, talk about how everybody in an organization needs re-skilling and process thinking needs to be pervasive. He says these are common misconceptions: …

Peggy Smedley says automation is turning industries upside down, narrowing in on customer service. She points to examples in hospitality and fast food and poises the question: How do we prepare worke…

Peggy and Arka Dhar, cofounder, Zinier, talk about how field service is at an inflection point, where manual processes need to become more predictive. He says AI (artificial intelligence) and the IoT…

Peggy and Jason Cohen, founder and CEO, Analytical Flavor Systems, talk about the impact of AI (artificial intelligence) on the food industry. He says 3D printing is making it easier to do small-scal…

Peggy Smedley explains that the industry is calling for a slowdown and that automation will allow workers to focus on more interesting and rewarding aspects of their jobs. She says some big names hav…

Peggy welcomes Brian Marcel, founder and chairman, Intl. Bar Code System Group and author, to the show to discuss his book and how it is a manual for entrepreneurs who want to change the world. He ex…

Sam George, director of Azure IoT, Microsoft, joins Peggy once again, this time to talk open source. He shares that one of the fundamental truths of the IoT (Internet of Things) is that it will trans…

Open source. Inner source. How do the two compare? Peggy Smedley discusses the two. She says some smaller open-source projects do not do thorough security vetting and she asks: what if shared respons…

Peggy and Claudette Rowley, CEO, Cultural Brilliance, and author of Cultural Brilliance, The DNA of Organizational Excellence, discuss brilliant cultures—and the biggest cultural challenges in compan…

Peggy and Tom Wheeler, visiting fellow, Brookings Institute, and book author, "From Gutenberg to Google, The History of Our Future", talk about how technology is evolutionary. It isn’t always two guy…

Peggy Smedley talks about the American AI Initiative and what the U.S. is doing to preserve its role in innovation. She explains that it is a multi-pronged approach to maintaining and accelerating Am…

Peggy and Bill Eckstrom and Sarah Wirth, co-authors of The Coaching Effect, talk about high-growth coaching activities. They explain that the most effective coaches are not running the team meeting a…

Peggy Smedley shares examples of how open source is bringing people together to address real-world problems and attracting the next generation of knowledge workers. She explains that trust is an esse…

Peggy Smedley celebrates episode 600 of the show by looking back at how the IoT (Internet of Things) community has evolved since the podcast first began. She explains that we are changing the world o…