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The Leadership Growth PodcastHow to Use AI in Hiring Leaders“It’s not about kind of handing away our decision-making rights,” says Dr. Reece Akhtar. “It’s about using AI as a tool–emphasis on a tool–to help us become smarter humans, not the other way around.”Dr. Akhtar is the CEO of Deeper Signals, an end-to-end Soft Skills Intelligence platform designed to help organizations make smarter and fairer talent decisions. He is a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes and co-author of the book, The Future of Recruitment: Using the New Science of Talent Analytics to Get Your Hiring Right.In...
2025-11-1836 min
The Tech Leader's PlaybookWhy Soft Skills Are Now a Hard Requirement for Tech LeadersIn this episode of The Tech Leader's Playbook, Avetis Antaplyan sits down with Dr. Reece Akhtar, CEO and founder of Deeper Signals — a leading organizational psychologist and data scientist helping companies unlock human potential through AI-powered talent insights. Together, they explore how the future of leadership is being shaped by behavioral science, soft skills, and the rise of AI in the workplace.Dr. Akhtar breaks down what defines high-caliber leaders today, emphasizing the evergreen traits of cognitive aptitude, emotional intelligence, curiosity, and execution. He shares powerful stories about helping a scaling company move from 200 to...
2025-09-2452 min
The HR Hub by Andrea AdamsHow AI Will Really Impact Talent Management (Beyond the Hype)Is AI going to replace your entire workforce or transform how we perform talent management. To some degree? The answer is more nuanced than the extreme hype would suggest.Dr. Reece Akhtar, organizational psychologist and CEO of Deeper Signals, cut through the hype to talk about what's actually happening in talent management. As someone who teaches at NYU and writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review, Reece brings both academic rigor and practical experience.In this episode, we talked how AI will impact virtually every stage of the employee journey - from recruitment to development...
2025-09-0922 min
10x Your Team with Cam & OtisThe Science Behind Finding Your Perfect Hire - Dr. Reece Akhtar | 10x Your Team Ep. #428Ever wonder why that "perfect on paper" hire turned out to be a complete disaster? Dr. Reece Akhtar might just have the answer.In this episode, we dive deep with the CEO of Deeper Signals who's spent his career figuring out the science behind personality and how it affects workplace performance. "Cut me off if I go too far down the pointy head rabbit hole," Reece jokes, but his passion for personality assessment is exactly what makes this conversation so fascinating.From explaining why traditional hiring methods only account for about 15% of what makes someone...
2025-07-0854 min
A Better HR BusinessEpisode 279 - Growing An AI-Led Soft Skills Assessment Platform - with Reece Akthtar from Deeper SignalsWhy do soft skills matter more than ever?
As AI automates more tasks, human skills - like communication, creativity, and teamwork - are becoming the new gold standard, at work and beyond.
But how do we actually measure and develop these skills meaningfully and at scale?
Deeper Signals, a personality assessment platform built by psychologists, blends rigorous psychometrics with intuitive tech to democratize self-awareness.
Their AI doesn’t replace human judgment - it augments it. Think of it as a smart coach: offering personalized insights, guiding hiring, and shaping development.
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2025-04-2226 min
Future of HR “The Science of Personality” with Reece Akhtar, CEO and Co-Founder & Uri Ort, Co-Founder, Deeper Signals What is the science behind personality assessments?How can personality assessments improve how you select, onboard, and develop talent in your organization?My guests on this episode are Reece Akhtar, CEO and Co-Founder & Uri Ort, Co-Founder, Deeper SignalsDuring our conversation Reece, Uri, and I discuss:How certain personality factors can predict 30-40% of the variance in engagement scoresHow personality assessments can support onboarding, development, and career progressionWhy personality assessments should be one of several data points when making critical talent decisionsHow Generative AI...
2024-07-1641 min
Catching North StarsPersonality Assessments for AllSelf-awareness is missing in many of today’s workplaces and can make a big difference for leaders of organizations and team members. While personality assessments are an important tool to help people better understand themselves, most come at high price points. In addition, the results are packaged for human resources professionals and consultants, who act as gatekeepers for potentially transformative information. Enter Reece Akhtar, PhD, who founded the personality assessment Deeper Signals to make personality assessments accessible to people beyond the C-suite. In this episode of Catching North Stars, hear Reece explain how he developed Deeper Sig...
2024-06-0544 min
Heads In The Cloud086: Imposter Syndrome to Unconscious Bias with Nancy RidgeIn this episode, Star2Star's CRO and President, Michelle Accardi, interviews Nancy Ridge, Founder & President of Ridge Innovative. Listen to this enlightening episode and discover how these impressive women combat imposter syndrome in their own lives and hear their tips to overcome it. You'll learn the causes and effects of Imposter Syndrome as well as find out how to use criticism to make you better, not to hold you back. Lean in and continue exploring the discussion about how Imposter Syndrome is disproportionately affecting more high performers, especially women.Show LinksNancy Ridge on LinkedIn: https...
2021-08-0317 min
Culture of InnovationReece Akhtar, PhD: Building Self Awareness with AI | S1 Ep. 8Join Nancy Ridge Founder of Ridge Innovative and Reece Akhtar, PhD, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer of Deeper Signals, for a fascinating conversation on how you can help your employees work well together, deeply understand each other, and reach their full potential. Learn how innovative tech delivers meaningful talent insights at every level of your business, and more!
Dr. Reece Akhtar is a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Deeper Signals. He is an organizational psychologist and data scientist specializing in applied personality assessment and computational psychometrics. As a lecturer at NYU and UCL, he has published scientific articles on personality...
2021-05-1841 min
Fintech BeatCognitive diversity and the smart teamUri Ort and Reece Akhtar, co-founders of the AI psychometrics tool Deeper Signals, walk listeners through how differences in how people think and interpret the world impact how companies innovate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-09-0124 min
The Modern MannHow to Win at Shopping (Season 2, Ep 9)What makes you buy a product? The look? The smell? The layout of the store? In today's cut-throat business world, none of that is left to coincidence: behavioural science is influencing the design of high street shops, supermarkets and online emporiums alike. In this episode, Olly meets consumer psychologists Reece Akhtar and Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos from University College, London and learns how we consumers are manipulated into buying stuff we don't want or need because retailers are cleverly appealing to our fear of scarcity, desire to belong or our basest instincts. So, next time you go shopping, you'll know what...
2016-06-0147 min