Hacking HR

Interview with Rod Lacey –  Rod is a Global HR professional with over 25 years of experience in multiple industries. He has an extensive experience in organization growth and change, with success in helping organizations create the structure and programs that enable them to scale. Rod is currently the Global Head of People at Talkdesk, Inc., a hyper-growth unicorn in the contact center softwa...

Interview with Andrew Spence – Andrew is a workforce futurist who specialises in building people-centric organisations by working with progressive leaders. A leading authority on transformation, he works at the intersection of technology, strategy and organisation development, successfully delivering over 25 global change programmes around the world.

Interview with Catalina Schveninger – Catalina joined FutureLearn from Vodafone where she most recently held the Global Head of Learning role, being responsible for the reskilling/upskilling and learning culture strategy for 100,000 employees across 25 countries. Previously, Catalina was HR Director of T Mobile in The Netherlands.

Interview with Scott Anthony –  Scott is a Senior Partner in Innosight’s Singapore office, where he helps leaders design new growth strategies, build innovation capabilities, navigate disruptive innovation, and manage strategic transformation. Scott has written eight books, including most recently Eat, Sleep, Innovate (2020) and Dual Transformation (2017), which describe how forward-thinking...

Interview with Larry McAllister – Larry is a strategic senior leader in the HRspace, with proven success in multi-billion-dollar businesses, such as: Equinix, Citibank & Philip Electronics as well as dynamic software companies. Currently, Larry is the Vice President of Global Talent at NetApp. He is currently enabling NetApp to build high performing teams through a growth mindset, ongoing conv...

Interview with Dr. Tracy Bower –  Dr. Brewer is a PhD sociologist studying the sociology of work and the changing nature of work, workers and workplace. She is the author of The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life. She is a contributor to Forbes.com and Fast Company.

Interview with Felipe Hessel – Felipe has over 17 years of experience of partnering with C-Level executives to deliver on business-critical People & Talent topics. He has spent the last 8 years helping Fortune 500 organizations conceptualize and implement global, large-scale HR and culture journeys. Felipe is a proponent of agile methodologies and passionate about the impact that HR can have i...

Interview with Amit Parmar –  Amit is a client centric results-oriented global HR leader specialized in developing and executing integrated global HR solutions for enterprise-wide business and transformational objectives. He founded Cliquify.me whose mission is to unleash the power of social networks to help people find meaningful work.

Interview with Soo Lee –  Soo Lee is the Sr. Director of Total Rewards at NextRoll. She has over 20 years of experience developing and executing compensation and benefits strategies. With a background in compensation consulting and an extensive resume spanning both public and private sectors, Soo has a passion for total rewards strategy.

Interview with Jan Jamrich – Jan founded Entromy in 2015 with the mission to accelerate leaders’ ability to drive change faster, better, and more effectively through the innovative use of cutting-edge software and analytics. Jan was previously a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group, first as a consultant and then as a founder of BCG’s Strategic Analytics team. Prior to BCG, Jan was a Product M...

Interview with Maureen Berkner Boyt – Maureen is the Founder of The Moxie Exchange. She’s spent over 25 years helping organizations grow by creating inclusive workplaces where talented people can thrive. She has leveraged the power of technology to build scalable, actionable, measurable inclusion tools,including the first-of-its-kind comprehensive diversity and inclusion app, Everyday Inclusion.

Interview with Luka Babic – Luka is the co-founder and CEO of the people analytics platform for growing startups, Orgnostic. He is the Ex-CHRO at a global unicorn, Infobip. Luka is on a professional mission to change the way businesses collect, interpret, and consume human capital data.

Interview with Christine Ramsay –  Christine’s life purpose is to create a unified world where all differences are seen, heard, valued, and celebrated so humanity can thrive. She is a 1st generation Armenian-American who is a Certified Coach in Leadership, Brain Based Skills Neuroscience of Inclusion, Social and Emotional Intelligence (EI), and a Certified Diversity Professional (CDP). She is...

Interview with Elizebeth Varghese – Elizebeth is a Futurist, People & Tech Strategist, Business Leader and Board Director. She is recognized as a global Top 100 Influencer in HR for 2020. Elizebeth is a senior Partner and the Global leader for HR Reinvention client services at IBM.

Interview with Gustavo Araujo – Gustavo is currently the Chief of Talent Acquisition at OSCE. He has a background in Clinical Psychology and in Public Health. He started his HR career at PwC managing interviews for 10 major US markets after working with psychological assessments and clinical trials. He has held UN positions including leading the Career Management portfolio at UNDP and working as a...

Interview with Jacqueline Brady – Jacqueline is a people leader passionate about helping fast growth companies scale. She has deep expertise in headcount planning, healthcare, diligence preparation, internal communications, succession planning, HCM implementation, performance management, leadership coaching, and training and development.

Interview with Tara Turk-Haynes – Tara is the VP, DEI & Talent Management at Leaf Group. Prior to that she was Director of Administration of Operations for Metacloud, a Cisco Company. She has worked in Editorial at Variety Magazine, at Ticketmaster, NBC Universal, Sundance Channel, and Penguin Putnam.

Interview with Gianna Driver –  Gianna is a seasoned HR leader, and she is passionate about helping organizations scale their People function while creating positive, high-performance cultures that are fun. Gianna has led HR at public and private companies in Silicon Valley and globally.

Interview with Kerry Brown – Kerry is the VP Workforce Adoption at SAP. She helps companies achieve organizational excellence to create value while becoming a best-run company. Kerry is an international speaker and advisor on future of work, workforce adoption, change management and learning, interacting with diverse global occupational cultures and industries.

Interview with David Jones – David is the Founder of The Talent Enterprise, a "Think" and "Do" Tank dedicated to elevating innovative and effective assessment and behavioural change practices. David has more than 30 years of strategic, consulting and line HR experience working across the entire employee lifecycle. He has published several books on the future talent landscape.

Interview with Lisa Zaythik – Lisa is the Chief People Officer on AppsFlyer. She believes in cultivating an unique Employee Experience to empower employees, managers, and teams to excel and succeed in every aspect of their life.

Interview with Matt Poepsel – Matt is the Vice President of Partner Growth at The Predictive Index where he is responsible for empowering PI Certified Partners and Associates to deliver the promise of talent optimization to their clients across the globe. Matt is also known as The Godfather of Talent Optimization—chief architect of this new discipline that aligns talent strategy with business stra...

Interview with Karina Galindo –  Karina is a professional with extensive experience in consulting, specializing in organizational change and talent in Latin America. From 2003 to 2010, she co-founded an information technology consulting firm, where she was responsible for assessing clients in change management. Since 2010, Karina has served in her current role as Director at Robert Half. In D...

Interview with Beth Chandler – Beth became CEO of YW Boston in 2018, with more than 20 years of experience in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. She has held roles at the Achievement Network, a national non-profit, Bank of America and the Urban Institute.

Interview with Niharika Hanglem – Niharika leads Research and Partnerships for GET Cities, where she leads research initiatives and develops the programmatic framework to be used for expansion nationally. Previously, she was a Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship consultant for the WorldBank, working on various social entrepreneurship and data innovation projects.