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Dr. Shari Simpson Dr. Shari Simpson Senior Manager Thought Leadership | Paylocity

Shari Simpson, EdD, is the host of HR Mixtape and a senior thought leadership leader at Paylocity. With over two decades of experience across training, talent, payroll, and employee relations, she brings curiosity, candor, and real-world perspective to every episode. Shari holds a Doctor of Education in Leadership and Innovation, along with an MBA, MHRM, and SHRM-SCP certification. 

James Terry James Terry Head of US Revenue | IndeedFlex

James Terry is the Head of US Revenue at IndeedFlex, the contingent labor arm of Indeed. He specializes in helping businesses build more agile, flexible workforces, particularly in high-velocity industries like logistics, hospitality, and customer service. James brings a data-driven perspective to workforce strategy, championing the idea that HR professionals who speak the language of operations, and back it up with numbers, become some of the most valuable people in any organization.

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Flex or Break: Building the Agile Workforce Your Business Actually Needs

Staffing isn't an HR problem. It's a business survival problem.
Podcast
May 21, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Shari Simpson sits down with James Terry, Head of US Revenue at IndeedFlex, to talk about what it really means to build an agile, flexible workforce in today's labor market. James brings a frontline revenue perspective on how companies can stop treating staffing as a headache and start treating it as a growth lever. 

Here's what you'll take away:

  • Why workforce flexibility isn't a perk but an untapped labor pool waiting to be activated
  • How AI screening tools are helping recruiters review 80 interviews a day instead of 13, without losing the human element
  • The data-first playbook HR leaders use to run pilots that actually change how operations teams think about shift patterns
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