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People, work, and the decisions leaders make
Brett’s AppleOne conversations connect hiring and leadership to everyday decisions: how teams use new tools, change old systems, and bring people along.
Brett Howroyd
President, ActOne Group · ActOne Group · AppleOne
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The AppleOne Podcast
With Jordan Morrow
With Jordan Morrow, Brett moves the discussion from broad claims about AI to uses people can recognize: learning, planning, and working through a task. Morrow’s examples provide starting points for experimenting with tools, with privacy and tool selection part of the conversation.
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With Jordan Morrow, Brett moves the discussion from broad claims about AI to uses people can recognize: learning, planning, and working through a task. Morrow’s examples provide starting points for experimenting with tools, with privacy and tool selection part of the conversation.
Published articleJordan Morrow · Guest · Data and AI leader
Original on MarketScale ↗The AppleOne Podcast
With Admiral Brian Luther
Brett’s conversation with Admiral Brian Luther looks beyond replacing technology. Luther describes retraining and reassigning staff while modernizing Navy Mutual’s infrastructure, preserving institutional knowledge as the organization changed. It gives the technical transformation a parallel people agenda.
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Brett’s conversation with Admiral Brian Luther looks beyond replacing technology. Luther describes retraining and reassigning staff while modernizing Navy Mutual’s infrastructure, preserving institutional knowledge as the organization changed. It gives the technical transformation a parallel people agenda.
Published articleAdmiral Brian Luther · Guest · CEO
Original on MarketScale ↗AppleOne
With Shawna Alvarado
Brett talks with Shawna Alvarado about her move from cosmetology into construction, the routes into the industry and the role of education, experience and professional networks.
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Brett talks with Shawna Alvarado about her move from cosmetology into construction, the routes into the industry and the role of education, experience and professional networks.
Published articleBrett Howroyd · host / Shawna Alvarado · guest
Original on MarketScale ↗Apple One
With Jasmine Nachtigall-Fournier & Matthew Fournier
GovInvest co-founders Jasmine Nachtigall-Fournier and Matthew Fournier join Brett to compare specialist and general hiring, company alignment and the constraints of bootstrapping.
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GovInvest co-founders Jasmine Nachtigall-Fournier and Matthew Fournier join Brett to compare specialist and general hiring, company alignment and the constraints of bootstrapping.
Published articleBrett Howroyd · host / Jasmine Nachtigall-Fournier · guest / Matthew Fournier · guest
Original on MarketScale ↗Apple One
With Stephen Tucker & Peter Cammarata
Brett connects Buffalo’s industrial-site redevelopment with workforce training through Stephen Tucker of Northland Workforce Training Center and Peter Cammarata, formerly of BUDC.
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Brett connects Buffalo’s industrial-site redevelopment with workforce training through Stephen Tucker of Northland Workforce Training Center and Peter Cammarata, formerly of BUDC.
Published articleBrett Howroyd · host / Stephen Tucker · guest / Peter Cammarata · guest
Original on MarketScale ↗THE RECORD
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Plan the staff transition alongside the technology change
Admiral Brian Luther in conversation with Brett Howroyd
Admiral Brian Luther describes retraining, reskilling and reassigning staff while modernizing Navy Mutual. In Brett’s interview, institutional knowledge is something the transformation needs to retain. The work therefore includes deciding how people move into the new operation alongside the design, build and launch of the systems.
Discussion prompt
Which knowledge could disappear during the transition, and who needs a route into the new roles?
Test an AI assistant against a familiar task
Jordan Morrow in conversation with Brett Howroyd
Jordan Morrow gives Brett examples such as planning a trip, learning a subject or building a workout plan. Those specific tasks make the conversation easier to assess than a broad productivity promise. Morrow also discusses choosing among tools and considering privacy before putting information into them.
Discussion prompt
What small task could be tested without exposing private information?
One hiring process will not fit every startup role
Jasmine Nachtigall-Fournier and Matthew Fournier in conversation with Brett Howroyd
Jasmine Nachtigall-Fournier and Matthew Fournier distinguish specialist searches, such as recruiting actuaries, from hiring for more general roles. In Brett’s interview, they also weigh skills against the company’s direction and the constraints of bootstrapping. The useful starting point is the particular job the business needs done, rather than one recruiting formula for every vacancy.
Connect the investment in a place to the people who can work there
Stephen Tucker and Peter Cammarata in conversation with Brett Howroyd
Brett’s Buffalo conversation puts two efforts side by side: Peter Cammarata describes redeveloping former industrial sites, while Stephen Tucker explains training residents for advanced manufacturing and clean-energy work. The pairing makes workforce preparation part of the redevelopment story, so the account includes the people who could take the new jobs.
Ask how people work before assigning a generation
Editorial takeaway from Brett’s intergenerational workplace discussion
Brett brings Milton Perkins, Nicole McMurray and Zoe Laub together to compare workplace experiences across generations. Their discussion covers communication, leadership and the misconceptions attached to age groups. Read together, those topics suggest a more useful management conversation: understand what helps someone contribute, then adapt the working relationship. A generational label can open a discussion, but it cannot describe an individual employee’s needs.
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BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
About Brett.
President, ActOne Group
ActOne Group · AppleOne
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Brett Howroyd joined ActOne Group in 2007, working in Los Angeles and Canada before becoming its president. His work has included developing internship and career-readiness programs and the company’s Educational Career Partnerships Department. He studied history and business and earned an MBA at the University of Southern California.
His AppleOne interviews follow the routes people take into work and the decisions employers face when they grow. Shawna Alvarado brings a career change from cosmetology into construction. GovInvest’s founders explain why hiring an actuary differs from hiring an account executive. A Buffalo conversation connects the redevelopment of industrial land to training residents for the jobs that could follow.
The range makes room for both the applicant and the employer. Alongside career-entry stories, Brett’s conversations with Admiral Brian Luther and Jordan Morrow examine retraining, institutional knowledge and the practical use of AI.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- 2007
Joined ActOne Group
Worked in Los Angeles and Canada, learning the workforce business across markets.
- Education
University of Southern California
Undergraduate degrees in history and business; MBA.
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