HR Data Labs

Send us a text Summary: Amy Leschke-Kahle is the Vice President of Performance Acceleration with the Marcus Buckingham Company, an ADP company. Initially a chemical engineer, she’s worked as a talent practitioner, a product builder, and most recently a world of work mythbuster who is passionate about helping organizations rethink and reinvent how to make work not suck. In this episode, Amy talks a...

Send us a text Summary: Cindy Foxworth is the CHRO at ADT Solar. She has built her career by working in many HR departments across multiple markets and industries, and she is passionate about using HR analytics to help employees improve their skills and build the careers they want. In this episode, Cindy talks about how executives use HR analytics to make business decisions.  Chapters: [0:00 -4:26...

Send us a text Summary: Ben Weber is the President and Co-founder of Humanyze. Ben is particularly passionate about the power of behavioral data and analytics and its ability to improve organizations and how people work in general. He has been featured in Wired, CNN, and The New York Times, among other outlets, and his work was selected for Harvard Business Review's List of Breakthrough Ideas and...

Send us a text Summary: Brittany Leonard is the Chief Corporate Counsel at Civix, a public sector technology company that provides services and software for government, transportation, and grants. Her experience, which includes advising and collaborating with Fortune 500 companies as an attorney, has given her a unique insight into HR’s interactions with an organization’s employees. In this episod...

Send us a text Summary: As Chief People Officer at Gallus Detox Centers, Louie Lugo loves helping people improve their lives by improving their workplace. Louie has 20 years of experience in the field, and he is driven by personal and professional growth. In this episode, Louie talks about driving business success through an inclusive workplace.  Chapters: [0:00 -3:03] Introduction •Welcome, Louie...

Send us a text Summary: Shubh Sidhu is the VP of Growth at ZayZoon, an employee financial wellness company whose core service offering is “wages on-demand” (i.e., what the industry now calls early wage access). ZayZoon was an opportunity that Shubh was passionate about both because it had a potential for significant growth and (more importantly) because it was an opportunity to give people a solut...

Send us a text Summary: As a strategic HR and technologies consultant, Neena Kovuru helps organizations gather insights from their data and design solutions that harness the power of technological innovations. Neena is passionate about analytics, data visualization, and emerging technology. In this episode, Neena talks about the role of data in the recruiting world. Chapters: [0:00 -3:18] Introduc...

Send us a text Summary: Jessica Miller-Merrell is an HR practitioner turned entrepreneur and the founder of Workology, a two-time Forbes recognized human resources, workplace, and recruiting resource established in 2005. Workology reaches 800,000 HR practitioners every single month and strives to help them elevate their businesses. Jessica is also the host of the Workology Podcast, which recently...

Send us a text Summary: This past June, at SHRM22, our very own Lenna Turner, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Salary.com, and David Turetsky had the opportunity to host a session on pay equity while presenting an overview of the Plunkett Pay Equity Framework. Lenna and David begin by addressing the importance of pay equity today and then lay out the six steps to achieving pay equit...

Send us a text Summary: Carlee Wolfe is an insightful people and culture business partner with deep, rich experience accelerating change, transforming cultures, and elevating performance to achieve business objectives in multiple industries. She has spent her career exploring her passion for inclusion, organizational development, leadership, change, and capability development. Most recently, Carle...

Send us a text Summary: Nadia Clifford is passionate about transforming and reinventing complex technology organizations through efficient processes and collaboration. Her entire career she’s been at the forefront of digital transformations, even before this term existed. Her penchant for taking on new challenges has propelled her into different industries throughout the years (e.g., biotech, HR &...

Send us a text Summary: While on the road at the ADP Pro Summit in Dallas, Dwight and David talked about Dwight’s past experience at Mayo Clinic working with quality analytics. This episode is a bit of a case study in process automation and how it can, in some cases, save lives.  Chapters: [0:00 -2:23] Introduction •Today’s Topic: Process Automation [2:24 -11:31] Examining processes and recognizin...

Send us a text Summary: Kevin Campbell, employee experience scientist with Qualtrics, is back again for another fascinating discussion with David and Dwight! Kevin creates and implements plans for strategic positioning with company executives and high-level leaders with the goal of improving the employee experience. Prior to his current role at Qualtrics, Kevin served as a Lead People Scientist fo...

Send us a text Summary: While on the road at the ADP Pro Summit in Dallas, Dwight and David talked about compensation benchmarking in hopes of demystifying it and breaking down how it works. They list some of the beneficial aspects of benchmarking and other areas that present opportunities for improvement.  Chapters: [0:00 -3:20] Introduction •Today’s Topic: Compensation benchmarking [3:21 -8:48]...

Send us a text Summary: Jeremy Feinstein is the managing director at Empsight International, LLC, a Human Resource consulting firm that specializes in compensation consulting and helps companies make strategic decisions involving their employees. Jeremy primarily focuses on conducting compensation surveys in niche markets, both domestically and internationally. Kevin Plunkett is the VP of Partners...

Send us a text Summary: Marc McBrearty is the North American Practice Leader, Rewards Data & Software at Willis Towers Watson. His years working in the financial services industry helped him hone his skills in HR consulting, executive pay, broad-based employee compensation, and compensation software. Kevin Plunkett is the VP of Partnership at Salary.com. He has 15+ years of human capital experienc...

Send us a text Belinda Roberts is the North America Survey Products Leader at Mercer. She’s passionate about HR and has some experience-backed insights into compensation data, it’s current state, and where it’s heading. Kevin Plunkett is the VP of Partnership at Salary.com. He has 15+ years of human capital experience in high-growth technical organizations and he specializes in staffing consulting...

Send us a text Summary: David Turetsky is a  passionate speaker and at this year’s WorldatWork ’22 conference, he gave a presentation titled, Talent Intelligence: The Evolution of People Analytics. For the first time in HR Data Labs history, we’re showcasing a presentation that was given at a major conference! As you’ll hear, the audience thoroughly enjoyed it, and we want to know your thoughts to...

Send us a text Garry Straker has more than 20 years of experience providing total rewards consulting services to a diverse list of clients from a variety of industries including technology, logistics, higher education, non-profit, healthcare, public sector, and more. Garry’s focuses on helping organizations achieve strategic goals by leveraging technology, data, and labor market insights to design...

Send us a text While on the road at the ADP Pro Summit, David sits down with colleague Dino Zincarini to talk about compensation strategies, how they’re being challenged, and how some companies are navigating the necessary change.  In this episode, Dino talks about compensation trends and insights from his latest projects. Chapters: [0:00 -1:41] Introduction •Welcome, Dino! •Today’s Topic: Compens...

Send us a text Summary: As Season 3 of the HR Data Labs Podcast comes to a close, David and Dwight take a look back at its episodes, its guests, and some key lessons. They also throw out some predictions for the future of HR.  Chapters: [0:00 - 5:05] Introduction Welcome… David and Dwight! Today’s Topic: Season 3 Recap [5:06 - 17:09] Looking back at Season 3 Revisiting episodes, topics, and common...

Send us a text Summary: Tim Freestone starting out initially as a financial analyst in a large smash repairs, believe it or not, but has since spent his career in analytics. He left the world of forecasting balance sheets & income statements to progress into commercial analytics and then eventually into data analytics, where he lead an analytics team in a travel tech company. Through his career Ti...

Send us a text Summary: Adriana DiNenno is a product manager for Infor People Solutions and has been with the company for 13 years. Day-to-day, she is a jack of all trades, working on a variety of applications within the HR Talent suite from Core HR to Health & Safety to Employee Relations.  About a year ago, Adriana founded a group at Infor called the “Infor People Wellbeing”. It’s an employee re...

Send us a text Summary: Greg Miller’s career has been focused on one of his greatest passions—tackling significant socioeconomic challenges like the digital skills gap. After starting his career at Oracle, Greg worked in senior leadership roles at leading tech companies such as PeopleSoft and, most recently, SAP where he was Chief Operating Officer. After his tenure at SAP, he raised social ventur...

Send us a text Summary: Garry Straker has more than 20 years of experience providing total rewards consulting services to a diverse list of clients from a variety of industries including technology, logistics, higher education, non-profit, healthcare, public sector, and more. Garry focuses on helping organizations achieve strategic goals by leveraging technology, data, and labor market insights to...