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Kate Sweeney
Human Capital Consulting Leader at Deloitte UK, specialising in workforce transformation, AI and the future of work.
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Aug 18, 2026
Full Episode for Thursday August 13, 2026
6:06
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Juju ChangCORRESPONDENT
out.Kate says she regained consciousness and moved to a bed, where she says he choked her again and said he wanted to film it this time.
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6:15Kate SweeneyGUEST
He got on top of me and put his hands around me like this, and stated that he wanted to watch me pass out.
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6:22Kate SweeneyGUEST
And that scared me a lot more, because I knew if I was in a choke hold, if I passed out, like, it'd be dead, dead weight, and I didn't think he'd be able to keep holding on.
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6:38Kate SweeneyGUEST
So I told him to just do it how he did it before and video it, just in case if, I mean, if he did kill me, there's video.
Juju ChangCORRESPONDENT
What was the message broadly that you delivered to s- the school officials? What did you tell them?
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8:55Kate SweeneyGUEST
We told them a part of what had happened, like the big events, and really just that we were scared.
Are Dietary Guidelines Helpful or Harmful For Recovery? | With Kate Sweeney
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36:36Talia CicchelliHOST
still making those responsible choices, you know, within the resources that they have
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36:43Kate SweeneyGUEST
Well, I think in order to make the best choices for them, it is about being aware.
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41:12Talia CicchelliHOST
yeah yeah and Kate one of the challenges that a lot of people have and when I was building the podcast I had a number of people ask about sort of the crossover between eating disorder recovery and also living with chronic diseases and I just wanted to bring that into this conversation because you are working within this crossover and yeah putting together a group So I just wanted to give you some space to talk about that because it's something I've come across before and I really think could be helpful for so many people.
Is the UK ready for AI? The series finale on transformation, trust and the infrastructure behind it all
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5:07Bruce DaisleyGUEST
But I think that's the current reality that just the cycle of news, the cycle of global politics is just making things a lot harder to predict.
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5:18Kate SweeneyGUEST
I completely agree with Bruce around the uncertainty, but I think as well, it's that sense that AI is here.
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5:23Kate SweeneyGUEST
It's kind of fundamentally, everybody knows they've got some really big competitive decisions they've got to make.
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5:32Kate SweeneyGUEST
So you've got on one side, people are really struggling, loads of experimentation, but very difficult to scale.
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5:37Kate SweeneyGUEST
So people don't have the confidence to say, we know this is the right way to go.
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5:42Kate SweeneyGUEST
And the flip side as well, huge investments, huge investments in technology and everybody's looking at kind of token consumption and token pricing and we're not sure how to model it.
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15:33Bruce DaisleyGUEST
Because if you're uncomfortable with breaking away from this sort of the rigid way that your work looks now, then I suspect you're not going to be prepared for these changes and these disruptions.
Are we planning enough for AI? With Bruce Daisley and Kate Sweeney
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Olly CarpenterHOST
It's interesting because there's definitely a sense that there are efficiencies to be had with the implementation of AI, but I think you're right in saying that some areas haven't quite been figured out yet, have they? And Kate, how are you approaching those conversations around AI with clients that you're working with? Because do they feel like it's a real opportunity or is there just pressure to implement and get it into their organisation?
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8:09Kate SweeneyGUEST
I think there's a sense of real opportunity and that pressure of we're not quite sure how to respond.
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8:15Kate SweeneyGUEST
But for me, I think your question about is it just a new technology is actually a brilliant question because I think one of the challenges is that organisations are treating it like it's just a new technology.
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8:26Kate SweeneyGUEST
If you think about the challenge we were saying, people aren't really adopting it, they're not using it.
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8:30Kate SweeneyGUEST
And I think we're we're pushing it out as if it was a new technology and we're all used to the next drop of software that comes and you just intuitively work it out.
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8:41Kate SweeneyGUEST
And actually AI isn't intuitive, it's a completely different way of working, it's a completely different way of thinking about how you do your daily tasks and until organisations start tackling that challenge I don't think we're going to see AI scaling beyond a little bit of personal productivity.
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Olly CarpenterHOST
So, I mean, Kate, firstly, what do we mean by this? And I suppose from your perspective, what's the answer to successful human and AI collaboration and AI implementation across firms? What does good look like?