In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group\u2122 Excellence at Work podcast, host David Forry sits down with Jeff Abbott, former CEO of Ivanti, and David Nason, founder and CEO of HireBrain, to explore what it truly takes to make hiring a strategic growth lever. Drawing on Jeff’s experience scaling Ivanti from $400M to $1B in revenue across 40,000 customers and 140 countries, and David’s science-backed approach to hiring enablement, the conversation challenges the notion that hiring is simply an HR function. In today’s remote-first, AI-driven business environment, you simply cannot afford to get it wrong.<\/p>\n
Jeff shares candid lessons from Ivanti’s rapid growth, including the real cost of regrettable hires and how one bad executive placement can quietly devastate team morale and slow business momentum. David Nason brings the science, explaining how fear and anxiety-based decision making during interviews leads hiring managers to prioritize perceived likability over business relevance, and how HireBrain’s guided pathways shift that framework entirely. The conversation also looks ahead to the growing role of AI in talent acquisition, where it holds real promise, where it is already falling short, and how to pilot it with the right governance and human judgment alongside it.<\/p>\n
Key Topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group\u2122 Excellence at Work podcast, host David Forry sits down with Jeff Abbott, former CEO of Ivanti, and David Nason, founder and CEO of HireBrain, to explore what it truly takes to make hiring a strategic growth lever. Drawing on Jeff’s experience scaling Ivanti from $400M to $1B in revenue across 40,000 customers and 140 countries, and David’s science-backed approach to hiring enablement, the conversation challenges the notion that hiring is simply an HR function. In today’s remote-first, AI-driven business environment, you simply cannot afford to get it wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":39750,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[3086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39739","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-resources-today"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n