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Building Internal Mobility at Scale — with Thom Staight
51 minutes Posted Jul 22, 2026 at 3:00 pm.
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Internal mobility is having a moment. Johnny sits down with Thom Staight, who spent 11 years at Microsoft, most recently as General Manager of Global Talent Acquisition for EMEA and Asia, to unpack how the company built a scaled internal mobility system from the ground up. Thom explains why the biggest barriers weren't technology but culture, how a shared skills taxonomy became the common language that made everything else work, and why a hard business case, not an HR case, is what finally got leaders on board.

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