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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.

Dr. Rebecca Hinds Head of Work AI Institute | Glean

Rebecca Hinds is the author of YOUR BEST MEETING EVER, a leading expert on organizational behavior and the future of work, founder of the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean. She holds a BS, MS, and PhD from Stanford University. Her research is consistently featured in top-tier publications like Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired, and more.

Human Resources

Meeting Makeover: Treating Your Meetings Like a Product

Your meetings are the most expensive form of collaboration in your org. Are you treating them like it?

Podcast

June 23, 2026

Most organizations treat meetings as the default answer to everything, but that's costing you more than you think. Rebecca Hinds, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, researcher, and author of YOUR BEST MEETING EVER, brings a product design mindset to the most expensive form of collaboration in your org. She shares how to spot meeting dysfunction, use AI to audit your calendar, and make intentional changes that actually stick.

Key takeaways:

Why meetings have become the 'junk drawer' of organizational communication, and how visibility bias keeps the habit alive.
How to use return on time investment (ROTI) scoring, meeting minimalism, and shared language to redesign your meeting culture.
The role AI and data play in building the business case for calendar reform, especially with a skeptical C-suite.

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