Ximena Paul is the CEO and co-founder of Nala, an AI-powered HR platform focused on performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and workforce planning. We talk about how AI could make employee feedback more useful, why quiet high performers may become easier to see, and how the manager's job changes when AI takes over more of the process work.

As AI gets better at tracking performance and spotting patterns across a company, it may start changing who gets promoted at work. Ximena believes AI can help make talent decisions more data-informed, but the final call still needs to belong to people.

If you manage people, lead a team, or are thinking about what makes someone valuable at work now, this episode gives you a clearer way to think about what good leadership looks like as AI becomes part of the workplace.

In this conversation:

How AI can make employee reviews less dependent on one manager's opinion
Why high performers can get overlooked when visibility matters more than results
What managers need to get better at as AI handles more process work
Why Ximena believes AI should inform talent decisions, not make them
How companies are starting to plan for teams made up of people and AI agents
Why workforce planning is shifting from fixed roles toward skills

Connect with Ximena

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ximena-paul/

Learn more about Nala, the AI Powered Talent Management platform serving organizations across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe at Nalarocks.com

Mentioned in this episode

AI-powered performance reviews, People analytics, Workforce planning, Skills-based talent planning, AI agents in the workplace

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