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Jeff Diana Former CHRO at Calendly & Atlassian, shares how HR leaders can shape AI transformation by starting with tasks, building internal support, and building partnership with the CIO.

As AI reshapes the workforce, pioneering leaders are merging HR and IT into a new leadership model. Learn how executives at Moderna, ServiceNow, and ZoomInfo are designing hybrid human–AI

AI is reshaping jobs at every level, but not in the way most fear. Research from Cornell and MIT shows that while tasks are increasingly automated, human strengths like empathy, judgment, and creativity are rising in value.

Pinnacle welcomes three senior HR leaders, Shelby Wolpa, Jeff Diana, and Barb Bidan, as advisors. They ill work directly with Pinnacle's product and go-to-market teams, ensuring Pascal delivers value whether you're a fast-growth startup or global enterprise managing complexity at scale.

Over the past few months, I’ve hosted closed-door roundtables with HR leaders across industries. While AI was the starting point, the real conversation turned to culture, trust, and the pace of change. These 10 takeaways highlight how CHROs are navigating talent disruption, rethinking learning, reshaping leadership, and partnering across functions to make AI adoption work.

Pinnacle has completed its most recent SOC 2 examination, a rigorous third-party validation of our security practices by BARR Advisory. This milestone backs up the security principles we built Pascal on: no chat data sharing, no AI training on your data, and zero cross-user leakage.

Former CHRO Melinda Wolfe shares why traditional leadership training falls short and how AI-powered coaching can better support managers in real time. Drawing on her experience at Bloomberg, Pearson, and GLG, she outlines the risks of neglecting mid-level leaders and offers clear guidance on making the business case for AI, building internal buy-in, and getting early wins.

A disagreement between the CEOs of Anthropic and Nvidia highlights two opposing views on AI’s workforce impact. Dario Amodei (Anthropic) predicts AI will eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, pushing companies to restructure and flatten hierarchies. In contrast, Jensen Huang (Nvidia) argues that AI will create new roles instead, emphasizing the need for reskilling and continuous learning so humans can work alongside AI in emerging job categories.

Great leaders aren’t born—they’re made. But for too long, leadership development has been slow, expensive, and disconnected from the realities of day-to-day work and how adults learn. It’s time for a change. Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve raised a $2.5M Seed round led by eLab Ventures to fundamentally transform this industry.