Ben Brennan, QSTAC CEO, author, and former IT exec at Yahoo and Verizon Media, is a world traveler, a musician, and a trained psychologist with passions for philosophy and psychotherapy. Not exactly the traditional background for an IT leader. Early roles at Pivotal Labs and Jawbone taught Ben that bringing humanity to technology is the future of work. He since published Badass IT Support and started QSTAC to measure the employee experience.

 

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What Ben learned managing 100 people and supporting 15,000 employees at YahooHow the culture at Pivotal Labs inspired Ben’s philosophy on quantifying the employee experienceHow Ben convinced a former Apple leader why QSTAC is better than NPSWhy CSAT scores don’t actually correlate with how satisfied employees are at workHow the principles of Design Thinking can be used to run ITWhat IT must do to avoid being “Uber-ed” like the taxi industryReferences in this episode…

 

Dion Hinchcliffe on AI and the Future of WorkTim Crawford on AI and the Future of WorkMatt K. Parker on AI and the Future of WorkO’Reilly’s 2021 AI adoption in the enterprise surveyQSTAC