Lars Schmidt
Talent/HR executive, author, and HR leadership educator; shares HR leadership playbooks, culture building, and future‑of‑work content.

Designing Joy Syndicate’s Second Capsule: Creative Growth
In my time between roles, I've been designing the second capsule drop for Joy Syndicate. 🖤 It's been a fun project to work on. I'm learning a lot. It's been an interesting, creative outlet to stretch my thinking in different ways. If you're curious or looking for some joyful minimalist tops and hats from Capsule One, link below. 📍 https://joy-syndicate.com
Jagged Career Paths Fuel Growth and Resilience
Today is my last day at Fruitist. 🫐 It's been a wild 0→1 build standing up a global talent function from the ground up at a $1B CPG company. I'll be embarking on one of the most important chapters of...

AI Transformation Accelerating Faster than Most Expect
It was a privilege sitting down with @servicenow's Chief People & AI Enablement Officer, Jacqui Canney, at Transform Monday. She shared real examples of what AI transformation and enablement look like at scale. My biggest takeaway from this and other...

Free Tool to Identify High-Leverage AI Recruiting Use Cases
Wondering how to approach AI automation in your recruiting efforts? Here's a free tool to help you diagnose some of the most high-leverage use cases. https://redefiningwork.substack.com/p/i-went-down-an-ai-rabbit-hole-and
AI Coaching Nullifies Behavioral Interviews; Use Live Scenarios
AI Made Your Behavioral Questions Useless Every candidate you’re interviewing has been coached by AI — and your behavioral questions can’t screen for that anymore. The shift the best hiring teams are making: ditch ‘tell me about a time’ and replace it...

Free HR Leadership Course From Top Global CHROs
💥 I just made my HR leadership course FREE. 20+ hours of content from world-class CHROs. 11 modules. Templates, frameworks, and real playbooks. Now completely open source. This course features leaders from Spotify, HubSpot, The Lego Group, Reddit, Asana, and more sharing...