Intuition and Experience with US Army's Kris Saling

In an AI driven world, the role of intuition and experience can be hard to define. Kris Saling, Chief Analytics Officer for the Army Talent Management Task Force and Director of People Analytics in the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army M&RA joins Tech Transforms to give insight on talent management within government agencies. Episode Table of Contents[00:41] The Analytic and Technology of Talent Management [07:35] Ensuring Unbiased Data Talent Management [16:28] Talent Management Prediction Vectors [22:21] Quality of Life [31:58] Talent Management in AI Analytics [38:39] How Do We Ensure Trust in Talent Management Episode Links and Resources The Analytic and Technology of Talent ManagementCarolyn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-saling-a8604b19/ (Kris Saling) is Deputy Director Army, People Analytics, and the Chief Analytics Officer for the Army Talent Management Task Force. She coordinates analytic and technology solutions, rights policy, and resources innovation to promote data-driven decision-making across the Army's people enterprise. Kris, welcome to Tech Transforms. Kris: Thanks so much, and I'm really happy to be here. This is going to be fun. Carolyn: So I want to start off with a two-part question. Let's start with the awesome poster behind you, of Sherlock Holmes. Tell us the story behind that. Kris: There are a bunch of stories behind that. The big one is people ask me why I went into data science out of all the things I could have gotten into. My usual answer for them is because I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was growing up. I just love the idea of sifting through all this information, finding clues, and solving problems, and that just persisted. That's up there for some motivation, but also a huge Robert Downey Jr. fan. He established a smart AI, a corporation that specializes in sustainability work through AI. It's called Footprints. He took the whole Tony Stark thing and decided he was going to make that his real life. Carolyn: I'm loving him even more.