How to Get Started with Agentic HR
The practical path to agentic HR, in 30 minutes — where to start, what to skip, and how to see value this quarter. Featuring Jeff Schwartz, Professor at Columbia Business School and Future of Work researcher, and Heather Yurko, VP Agentic HR Innovation at Gloat.
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Your speakers
Who you’ll hear from
Heather Yurko
VP Agentic HR Innovation, Gloat
Heather Yurko leads agentic HR innovation at Gloat, turning emerging AI capabilities into practical outcomes for HR teams. Heather’s career spans Cisco, Facebook, and Mastercard — most recently as VP of Digital Talent at Mastercard, leading a pioneering internal talent marketplace. Heather holds an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College.
Jeff Schwartz
Professor, Columbia Business School · Senior Advisor, Gloat
Jeff Schwartz is a global authority on the future of work and a senior advisor to Gloat. Across two decades as a principal at Deloitte, Jeff founded the Global Human Capital Trends report and led the firm’s U.S. future-of-work practice. Jeff is the author of Work Disrupted and co-author of Workforce Ecosystems, and teaches as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and Cornell Tech.
The HR ratio gap is already here.
Every HR leader feels the same squeeze: the HR-to-employee ratio keeps climbing — from one per 100 toward 1:500 at some companies. Gartner calls it a three-year shift; in practice, it’s already here.
The usual answer — becoming a “skills-based organization” — is stalling. Job architectures and static skills taxonomies are a maintenance treadmill that eats the very capacity they were meant to free up.
The path forward is a new playbook: Agentic HR — agents that reason over a connected model of your workforce and act in the flow of work. We’ll start with the lowest-friction step: a Profile Enrichment Agent that builds your workforce data as it runs, using the systems you already have.
What you’ll learn
Six things you’ll walk away with
Why the HR-to-employee ratio is climbing from 1:100 toward 1:500 — and what it means for your operating model.
Why the skills-based organization playbook stalls — the job architecture and taxonomy maintenance treadmill.
What Agentic HR actually is — agents that reason over a connected model of your workforce and act in the flow of work, not another database.
Myth vs. fact: why “our data’s a mess” is no reason to wait — the agents build the data for you.
The Profile Enrichment Agent: the lowest-friction place to start — a living, connected profile for every employee that unlocks mobility, succession, retention, and workforce planning.
How to get started right away — including a program built to help attendees launch this quarter.
Your HR capacity gap won’t wait for a data cleanup.
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