So Drama

In this episode, we're joined by Anthony Onesto, who has seen HR through multiple transformations, from the early internet to mobile to social. Now as Principal of AI and People Solutions at Living HR, he's on a mission to convince HR that the AI wave belongs to them...but he also once built an HR policy chatbot that crashed and burned, and was an aspiring actor before he left the stage behind for...

In this episode, SVP People Jen Paxton explores the parallels between team building and ensemble-oriented leadership, the power of good feedback, and how chaos in theater teaches resilience in business. Jen also shares how she returned to performing after a 10-year hiatus (and how she ended up performing with her whole family!), what keeps her coming back to the stage while continuing to hold a de...

When it comes to the "theater kid to HR pro" persona, T. Tara Turk-Haynes spends equal time in both worlds. She's a playwright with an off-off-Broadway credit, a Van Lier Fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop, and a Lipkin Playwriting Award, and she's also spent decades doing transformative HR and DEI work in corporate spaces. For a long time, even as she juggled between them, she kept those wor...

🤩 Get ready, superstars, because Episode 2 of So Drama is LIVE and it's an unhinged, slightly chaotic, educational, and emotional rollercoaster. Of course it is, because it's Brittany Storie and I discussing: - HR onstage - HR as pit orchestra - HR's backstage personality - The musical SIX (with appropriate shoutouts to Milly Parker ) and how each of Henry VIII's wives is a different HR Archetype...

Kate Sargent joins So Drama for our first episode, where we cover everything from the magic of recruiting to adventures with beard glue, from learning to "yes and" to coaching executives, and from making home movies to writing your own story.