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Across podcasts and national business media, Scribd, Inc. executives have been shaping conversations defining the moment, from how AI is reshaping daily work to what flexibility actually requires to succeed. 

CEO Tony Grimminck for Fast Company: The AI Adoption Phase is Over‍

August 25, 2026

In his latest piece for Fast Company Impact Council, Tony Grimminck, CEO of Scribd, Inc. argues that the race to adopt AI is effectively settled, and that trust is the next real competitive advantage. 

“AI generates answers; accountable human knowledge is what lets your teams act on them”

• Data from Scribd’s inaugural Understanding Index found that human-authored expert documents earn a net trust score nearly four times higher than AI-generated summaries with 76% saying author expertise is highly important to whether they trust a source, and 72% say the same of citations.
• His prescription for leaders: build verification into the workflow itself, establishing checkpoints, source requirements, and review norms rather than leaving it to individual diligence. Reward accuracy and sourcing, not just speed - if your incentives only celebrate velocity, you’re training people to skip the step your best performers already consider non-negotiable. 

Read the full article in Fast Company.

Chief People Officer Patsy Mangan on the Modern People Leader Podcast

August 25, 2026

On the Modern People Leader, Patsy Mangan, CPO of Scribd, Inc. unpacks ScribdFlex and makes the case that flexibility is its own strategy that works only when paired with clarity and accountability. She also walks through the thinking behind GRIT, and why defining shared expectations is what allows a flexible model to hold up over time. 

“Don’t be afraid to break the rules. Learn them, understand the foundation. But give yourself permission to rewrite. When you understand why, you can understand how.”

• ScribdFlex, the company’s future of work plan, is deliberately not labeled “remote,” “hybrid,” or “in-office.” The idea is to give people freedom to do their best work wherever they do it best, with intentional in-person moments built in, and treat it as a benefit the company invests in rather than just a way of working.
• GRIT, Scribd, Inc.’s performance framework, is the interlocking piece with four distinct dimensions: goal-oriented, results-driven, innovative, team-focused. Every role carries expectations against each, and employees are rated on all four rather than one averaged out score. Together, the two programs are freedom plus clarity. 

Listen to the full episode of Modern People Leader. 

Chief Marketing Officer Gemma Craven on the Media Insights and BrandInc PR Podcasts

August 13, 2026, September 3rd, 2026

Gemma Craven, CMO of Scribd, Inc. has recently appeared on two podcasts: The Growth Stack’s Media Insights Podcast, on how organizations absorb the pace of AI disruption, and the BrandInc PR Podcast with host Dr. Brandi Sims, on reputation as a measurable business asset. 

“To adopt, roll out, and use AI effectively, you actually need more people rather than less.”

• During the Media Insights Podcast, Gemma discusses how AI increasingly handles the middle layer, the executional layer, which means the human layer on top of it is really about judgement, strategic thinking, and curation. That makes this a bigger organizational transformation versus a tool rollout, reshaping jobs from title down to roles and responsibilities. 
• During her conversation with Dr. Sims on the BrandInc PR podcast, they discuss how reputation is now formed before a person even reaches your brand. AI reads consumer reviews, your response times, older press coverage, etc. and arrives at an impression. That makes reputation something to build deliberately and measure - a number the board can see, with a cost attached when it goes untended. 

Watch the full episode of the Media Insights Podcast and listen to the full episode of the BrandInc PR Podcast.