If you’re planning a conference or leadership event for 2027, you’re probably trying to solve one of two problems. Your people are worn out and stuck, or your managers don’t know how to keep good people from leaving. I have a keynote for each. Laurie Ruettimann Keynote Speeches 2027 “Ready for More” is the talk…
People ask me all the time what I actually believe about work. I’ve spent more than two decades in and around HR, written a book, coached a lot of people through layoffs and career messes, and changed my own career more times than I can count. So I sat down and wrote out my principles.…
I’ve loved Rage Against the Machine for a long time. I was a punk rock kid before I went corporate, and Rage was my soundtrack. They have thousands of my dollars. But Tom Morello is officially off my list. Morello told Rolling Stone he “certainly did not” vote for Kamala Harris in 2024. He said…
Early in my recruiting career, checking references was my job. A candidate would give me an old colleague who liked them. I’d call to ask if they enjoyed working with so-and-so, and we’d have a really dull, rote conversation. It’s how I learned to understand recruiting and hiring, and it’s also when I started to…
I’ve had a lot on my mind because people keep telling me that AI agents are taking over. And I’m like, sure, but what’s next? When an agent takes a job, the taxes on that paycheck disappear too. Over the last four posts, I followed that money. The paycheck has a second job, which is…
In my last piece, I asked where HR goes when HR disappears. It’s really a question that applies to all of us when agents do more of the work. My answer is that we need to build a floor to even have this conversation in a responsible and ethical way. Universal Basic Income (UBI) could…
At the end of my last piece, I asked a question I’ve been thinking about for a while. If HR keeps shrinking inside companies, who thinks critically about the future of work? Who is worried about both the organization’s future viability and the people who did the work? Who cares about money and humanity? Where…
Last time, I asked a simple question. If AI agents don’t pay withholding, what do you tax instead? A lot of smart people have landed on the same answer. Tax the tokens. Tokens are how AI companies measure and bill the work their models do, so every time an agent answers a question or drafts…
I’ve said for years that HR sits at the intersection of work, power, politics, and money. We defined work as something a person does in exchange for cash. Power was what bosses and leaders had over people. Politics were something only partisan hacks cared about. And money was measured in dollars. All that has changed.…
When I worked in HR, nobody asked me about the server room. It was a closet near IT with a loud fan and a sign on the door, and the only time it came up was when somebody wanted to move their desk away from the noise. Back then, computers, data, and all the strategy…
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