The conversation in public

Podcast and media appearances

Distinct conversations about the behavioral reality of AI-enabled work, organized by the questions each host brought to the discussion.

PMO Strategies Podcast

Ep 369 - AI Is Exposing How Work Really Gets Done with David Dean

With Laura Barnard

David Dean joins Laura Barnard on the PMO Strategies Podcast to discuss why AI will not fix a broken operating model, and how it exposes the informal coordination, adaptation, decisions, and gaps that already shape how work gets done.

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Delivering Marketing Joy with Kirby Hasseman

Episode 608 - An Inbox Between Us

With Kirby Hasseman

David Dean joins Kirby Hasseman on Delivering Marketing Joy to discuss An Inbox Between Us, undocumented workplace behavior, and why job titles are often labels for collections of behaviors.

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Tim Stating the Obvious

AI Uncovers Secret Workplace Behaviors

With Tim Staton

David Dean joins Tim Staton on Tim Stating the Obvious to discuss An Inbox Between Us, spreadsheets as behavioral evidence, and how AI can reveal the hidden operating system of work.

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The Book Leads with John Jaramillo

Episode 183: David Dean & His Book, An Inbox Between Us

With John M. Jaramillo

David Dean joins John M. Jaramillo on The Book Leads Podcast to discuss An Inbox Between Us, the path that led to the book, and why the most important AI conversation is often about human behavior rather than technology.

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Future Factory Podcast

How AI Reveals What Is Really Happening Inside Your Business

With Anthony Amunategui

David Dean joins Future Factory to explain how behavioral records reveal bottlenecks, trust gaps, hidden work, and the risk of industrializing dysfunction.

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Product Coffee

Product Lessons From Publishing An Inbox Between Us

With Jason Brett and Allison Herbert

Publishing An Inbox Between Us becomes a product-management case study in market discovery, audience focus, scope, budget, packaging, launch decisions, validation, and iteration.

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The Manager Track

AI in the Workplace: The Problem No One Names

With Ramona Shaw

David Dean and Ramona Shaw examine the unwritten contract of work, behavioral signals, lived consequence, AI as a third presence, adoption messaging, and self-service versus controlled AI.

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People Business with O'Brien McMahon

How Work Gets Done—and How It Evolves for AI

With O'Brien McMahon

David Dean and O’Brien McMahon explore hidden workplace systems, process drift, lived experience, self-service versus controlled AI, and discovery before organizational change.

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SalesPOP! Expert Insight Interview

How to Future-Proof Your Job in the AI Era

With John Golden

David Dean explains how people can future-proof their work through lived experience, judgment, accountability, behavioral awareness, and a deliberate relationship with AI.

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Qonversations with Brian Gorman

Practical AI, Authenticity, and the Third Presence at Work

With Brian Gorman

A conversation about AI as a third presence in workplace communication, organizational self-realization, authenticity, and behavioral literacy.

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People Strategy Forum Powered by CompTeam

AI in the Workplace: What's Really Happening

With Sam Reeve

David Dean and Sam Reeve examine the documented and undocumented systems of work, the inbox as a behavioral record, AI as a third presence, and why human judgment and lived consequence remain essential.

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Most People Don't... But You Do!

The Truth About How You Work—AI Just Exposes It

With Bart Berkey

David Dean and Bart Berkey explore self-realization, the unwritten contract of work, the inbox as behavioral evidence, human–AI symbiosis, and why lived consequence keeps people essential.

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Transform Now — SS&C Blue Prism

Human Connections in a Digital World

With Michael Marchuk

David Dean discusses the unwritten contract of work, self-service and controlled AI, trust, bottlenecks, and the human relationship with automation.

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