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How can business help solve society’s biggest challenges? Welcome to Take on Tomorrow, the award-winning podcast from PwC that examines the biggest problems facing society and the role business can—and should—play in solving them. Hosts Femi Oke and Lizzie O’Leary talk to industry innovators, tech trailblazers and visionary leaders from around the globe about timely topics: from the climate transition to AI and data; and from the future of food to how we build, move and power the world.
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AI isn’t just generating insights anymore—it’s acting on them. In this episode, I talk with Francisco Marin, CEO of Cognitive Talent Solutions, and Dan George, the company’s Chief Experience Officer, about how agentic AI is changing the game for HR. These aren’t your standard dashboards—they’re autonomous systems that detect workforce patterns in real time and proactively intervene, from mentoring and onboarding to retention and burnout prevention.
We get into what makes AI “agentic” in the first place, why consent and trust must sit at the core of any autonomous HR system, and how early pilots are already cutting onboarding time by 40%. If you’ve been wondering what comes after analytics and automation in HR—this is it.
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Chapters
1. How Agentic AI Is Changing Onboarding, Mentorship, and Retention (00:00:00)
2. What Makes Agents Agentic (00:00:43)
3. Consent, Trust, and Ethics (00:01:32)
4. From Dashboards to Autonomous Action (00:09:37)
5. Mentorship Matcher Gains Traction (00:12:25)
6. Onboarding as Social Activation (00:13:20)
7. How the Mentor Workflow Runs (00:14:58)
8. Measuring ROI and Outcomes (00:16:33)
9. Native Integrations and Scale (00:19:09)
10. Interest Beyond HR (00:20:29)
11. Data Needs and Infrastructure (00:21:31)
12. Lowering Resistance and Adoption (00:23:29)
13. Control, Governance, and Sharing (00:25:32)
14. The Next Wave of Agent Capabilities (00:26:37)
15. Network‑First Future of Work (00:27:40)
16. Where to Learn More (00:30:13)
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