Hacking HR

Interview with Emma Davies – Emma is the Group People and Culture Director at Masafi LLC. She helps build people focused organizations with thriving work spaces, by retaining the best people, using wellness, recognition and engagement to increase productivity, maximize profits and save costs.

Interview with Melinda Honcoop – Melinda is a Chief People Officer. She has built and led the overall vision, designed, and implemented change and transition strategies to enable global business growth, and coached and influenced senior executives. Her goal is supporting global business performance, designing integrated HR strategy, and driving organizational health.

Interview with Sarika Lamont – Sarika is the Global HR and Chief Talent Officer at EverCommerce.

Interview with Daniela Herrera – Daniela is the Director of Recruitment Operations and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at R/GA. She has developed global inclusive practices, training sessions, and guidelines for many companies. She specializes in analyzing, deconstructing, and synthesizing processes to identify biases and un-inclusive practices from different perspectives at every level of the org...

Interview with Aura Hout – Aura is the People and Culture Director at Lavallee Brensinger Architects. She is passionate about translating opportunities into action to drive results, strategy, process improvement, human experience, engagement, diversity, equity, inclusion, communication, training, financials, technology, and organizational mission.

Interview with Frank Gonzalez – Frank is the Senior Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Momentum Financial Services Group. He has twenty years of experience leading diversity. He believes in creating sustainable balance for stakeholders (external) and employees (internal) by leveraging inclusion and diversity and employee engagement.

Interview with Lela Topuria – Lela is the Head of Workforce Planning and Talent Acquisition at TBC Bank. She has over 10 years of experience in Human Resources Management with a demonstrated history of working in the Retail Management and financial services industry.

Interview with Sara Whitman – Sara is the Chief People Officer at Hot Paper Lantern. She is focused on leading the talent management and human resources function at the organization, as well as their employee engagement and internal communications business for their clients. She also founded At The Start, a coaching consultancy designed to support parents and teens through their major life transit...

Interview with Alexia Coghen – Alexia is the Senior People Strategist Operations at Nav Technologies, Inc.

Interview with Stacey Richey – Stacey is the VP of People at Corvus Insurance. She is an accomplished leader with a proven track record of success building high-growth tech companies by taking a data-driven and heart-led approach to people operations.

Interview with Nick Jesteadt – Nick is the Senior Director of People Analytics at TIBCO. Nick is driven and passionate about the use of data science to unlock the strategic potential of HR. He strives toward deciphering and interpreting hidden trends to guide data-driven decision making in fast paced, growing companies.

Interview with Jen Casimiro – Jen is Talent Director and Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at IDEO. She is passionate about designing inclusive programs and organizations that supports individuals and organizations in learning about systems of power, recognizing their impact, and making equitable decisions.

Interview with Sezin Ninic – Sezin is the Global Vice President of Talent Management at The Adecco Group. Her purpose is to unlock the human potential and to make the workplaces better place for people.

Interview with Rajeswari Ramanan – Raji is the Head of Talent, Performance and OE at United Health Services. Raji is a Strategic Global Human Capital Executive who delivers pragmatic solutions and impactful tool kits in strategy, business transformation, Leadership, Talent Management and Organizational Development. She is passionate about unlocking human potential and delivering transformative bus...

Interview with Jennifer Blue – Jennifer is the Chief People & Experience Officer and Head of Strategic Comms at Chrysalis Health. She is responsible for leading all facets of People Operations related to preserving a culture of positive engagement for over 1,000 employees, overseeing talent acquisition, talent management, learning and development, customer service delivery and policies and pro...

Interview with Lorie Corcuera – Lorie is the Head of HR of North America West at DNEG. She is a strategic people and culture executive with 25 years of experience in talent, culture and belonging strategy and implementation, executive coaching and leadership alignment, organizational development, diversity and inclusion, mental health, and well-being, learning and development, and elevating workpl...

Interview with Allison Sproul – Allison is the Director of People at connectRN. She specializes in building and scaling People Operations practices, particularly for rapidly growing startups and international teams. Allison has worked predominantly for companies which make a societal impact. She believes in a human-first approach, advocating for employee wellbeing and amplifying voices from underr...

Interview with Jasmine Francis – Jasmine is the VP of People and Culture at Thinx Inc.

Interview with Marie-Louise Ek – Marie-Louise is the Senior Director of HR in Africa, Middle East, and South Asia at PepsiCo. She is an HR leader with global experience. Marie-Louise works on creating high performing teams and influence stakeholders in complex matrix structures.

Interview with Horst Gallo – Horst is the Chief People Officer at Orion Innovation. He is an international leader with expertise in both mature and emerging markets. Horst has special expertise in building and leading high-performance teams, defining differentiated talent models and creating a culture of engagement, agility and innovation.

Interview with Jill Santercier – Jill is the VP of Global People Operations at Headspace Health. She believes in a people-first approach with a focus on retention and human flourishing in a psychologically safe space.

Interview with Colin Mincy – Colin is the Chief People Officer at Human Rights Watch. He has extensive experience in Talent Management (Leadership Development at executive and frontline management level), Employee Engagement, Communication, Change and Performance Management) also extensive Talent Acquisition and Retention, Total Rewards, Employee Relations, and Global Mobility.

Interview with Kelsey Schnittgen – Kelsey is the Chief People Officer at Mission Critical Solutions. She is a Forbes Human Resources Council Member and a Board Director at Girl. Gov Foundation.

Interview with Garvita Chaturvedi – Garvita is the Employee Experience Lead for the Americas at Merck. She is a senior Human Resources Professional with progressive experience in Fortune 100 companies.

Interview with Elaine Mason – Elaine is the VP of Global Head of Talent and Learning at Splunk. She is recognized for her partnership with C-level executives, guiding them on how to reboot their organization – from design, to people, to skills – all focused on enabling them to achieve their strategic purpose.