GREG PRYOR is an experienced talent management leader and co-founder of the Connected Commons, a community of business and academic leaders providing the social network science research and resources required to effectively operate in the NEXT world of work. Greg’s articles and work on the growing importance of positive and productive connections at work have been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review and Organization Dynamics. Greg’s HBR Cover Story article on How to Succeed in a New Role has been selected as one of the 10 definitive management ideas of the year from Harvard Business Review. Until December of 2021, Greg served as the Senior Vice President and People & Performance Evangelist at Workday, where he helped the company achieve extraordinary growth while being recognized as one of the world’s best places to work. The Great Place to Work Institute recognized Greg’s pioneering work on employee experience and culture with their Innovator of the Year Award in 2019. Before Workday, Greg served as Juniper Networks’ Vice President of Talent where he helped create Juniper’s Talent Matters Practice that has been featured as a pioneering performance management practice by the Corporate Executive Board, Mercer and Strategy & Business. Greg also served as Head of Talent Management for Merrill Lynch’s Global Technology and Operations function and was a Partner in Accenture’s Human Performance Practice.