How People Work

There is a fundamental difference in how the generations of the workforce see and experience the world because of the role technology has played in their lives. These generations can be split into two groups: native analogs and native digitals. Native analogs: Silent, Boomers, Gen X, and even some older Millennials remember a time before the Internet. They view technology one of two ways: (1) a he...

Employers and people leaders across industries are facing the same challenge at work. How do you lead a diverse workforce well? For the first time in history, there are five different generations in the workplace—Silent, Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z. And each generation has a fundamentally different experience of the world, leading to competing expectations of the employer. How can leaders...

Many of the concepts we have about work assume that it is a necessary evil. Work is bad and life is good, and therefore we should aim for minimal time spent working and maximal time at leisure. This is the assumption embedded in the “work-life balance” model. In this first episode of How People Work, Fringe co-founders Jordan Peace and Jason Murray challenge this way of thinking. They explore the...

Welcome to the How People Work podcast, where we explore the intersection of how humans think and act and how they apply themselves to their work. Every week, startup co-founders Jordan Peace and Jason Murray discuss topics ranging from human psychology and anthropology to leadership, business trends, people strategy & more. This podcast is for anyone who strives to be a compassionate and compelli...

On this episode, Cassandra Rose sits down with Jessica Marucci, VP of People and Places at Catalyst Software. Catalyst offers a customer success platform (CSP) that integrates with all the tools a company is already using to provide a single, centralized view of customer data. This can help organizations prevent churn and provide better customer outcomes. Jessica discusses how Catalyst went remote...

On this episode, Cassandra Rose speaks with David Yovanno, CEO and Board Director at impact.com. Impact.com helps businesses manage and optimize all kinds of partnerships, including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers and B2B. The company’s purpose-built platform makes it easy for companies to create, manage and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with brands an...

On this episode, Cassandra speaks with Rick Hammell, CEO at Atlas. Atlas helps innovative companies to employ whomever they want, wherever the talent exists. They help onboard talent, manage compliance and pay a global workforce without the need for a local entity or multiple third-party providers. They are currently in over 160 countries and offer a platform that improves user experience and prov...

On this episode, Cassandra speaks with Michael Katz, CEO and Co-Founder at mParticle. mParticle makes it easy to holistically manage customer data along the entire product and customer lifecycle. This helps organizations deliver great customer experiences and accelerate growth.   As Michael reflects on the changes in digital marketing in the last decade, particularly with the current emphasis on p...

On this episode, Cassandra Rose talks with Eveline Jaynes, Director of Talent Acquisition and Management at Laserfiche. Laserfiche provides intelligent content management and business process automation by using workflows, electronic forms, document management and analytics. Team members at Laserfiche empower customers and help them reimagine how technology can impact organizations and individuals...

On this episode, Cassandra Rose speaks with Lee Kirby, Chairman & Co-Founder at Salute Mission Critical. Salute Mission Critical is a data center services company that deploys, manages and decommissions data center sites with high-quality results and military precision. Salute is dedicated to pulling from a labor pool of veterans — a disciplined, adaptable and trainable group.   Lee shares details...

On this episode, Cassandra Rose speaks with Inna Kuznetsova, CEO at ToolsGroup. ToolsGroup helps organizations achieve their target service levels while optimizing inventory. In today’s world organizations need to predict more behaviors, protect against surprises and perform more efficiently. ToolsGroup helps companies like Absolut, BP and Harley-Davidson do all this and more.   Inna shares with u...

On this episode, Jordan talks with Savina Perez, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer at Hone. Hone is a market leader in offering remote live learning at scale to create behavior change, connection and personal development.    Long before the pandemic forced remote culture on many companies, Hone was remote-first, both as a company and product, giving them access to talent from multiple sources....

On this episode, Jordan talks with Ganesh Shankar, CEO and Co-Founder of RFPIO Inc., about start-ups and small businesses. RFPIO is the market leader in response management software to help create and manage sales proposals, and resolve inefficiencies rooted in decentralized and inaccessible content and knowledge.   Ganesh discusses the acquisitions of former competitors and how RFPIO is guided by...

On this episode, Cassandra Rose speaks with Kendall Holbrook, CEO at Dev Technology Group. Dev Technology offers mission-critical applications and systems to governmental organizations such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and State, as well as the National Guard and others. They offer full-stack application development, biometrics and identity management, cloud and infrastructure...

On this episode, Jordan speaks with Alex Frommeyer, Founder and CEO at Beam Benefits. Beam is all about modernizing employee benefits through its intuitive digital platform, self-service tools and AI-powered underwriting. That combination offers a simple experience for brokers, employers and members.   When Alex last appeared on The BragWorthy Culture, he discussed how Beam was setting itself apar...

On this episode, Cassandra talks with Lucas Haldeman, Founder and CEO at SmartRent. SmartRent offers smart home automation to property managers and renters. Whether you develop, own or manage multifamily communities, SmartRent can help you control all the smart devices in your properties through an app.   Lucas talks about how SmartRent developed, as so often happens in entrepreneurial stories, fr...

On this episode, Cassandra speaks with Vishal Sunak, Co-Founder and CEO at LinkSquares. LinkSquares uses AI to help legal teams manage contracts. This gives customers what they need to write better contracts, analyze existing ones and execute them quickly. Using AI, companies save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars by eliminating manual contract processes and reducing the need for outside...

On this episode, Jordan talks with Temy Mancusi-Ungaro, CEO at Reachdesk. Reachdesk helps companies deliver moments that matter throughout the entire customer lifecycle, at scale, globally. It does this through gifts and direct mail that build deeper connections with customers, prospects and employees at the click of a button.   Temy speaks about the power of physical gifts and how maximum impact...

On this episode, Jordan speaks with Sheri Kelleher, Senior Vice President, People Success at Incorta. Incorta provides unified data and analytics software that makes it fast and simple to unlock the full potential of data from multiple complex source systems. It makes data instantly ready for analysis by eliminating traditional data transformation, modeling and aggregation steps.   Sheri talks abo...

On this episode, host Cassandra Rose speaks with Roisin O’Hagan, Vice President of Human Resources at Unosquare. Unosquare provides custom software development in the fields of healthcare, financial services and tech. During Roisin’s time at Unosquare, the company has grown from 400 to 800 team members.   Roisin shares what she loves about the culture at Unosquare: company town halls that offer tr...

On this episode, Cassandra talks with Dr. Alex Gapud, Cultural Anthropologist at scarlettabbott, an employee engagement and communications consultancy that believes in purpose-driven and productive worlds of work. One way they help achieve this is to send someone like Dr. Gapud into an organization to obtain a map of the company culture. This is then used to help leadership see what’s working and...

On this episode, host Cassandra Rose sits down with Matt Oxley, Co-Founder at Opal. Opal offers a personal marketing platform that helps its users see their work through the eyes of their customers. Opal works with brands like Airbnb, Microsoft and even NASA.   Matt shares some of the changes that Opal made post-pandemic, including deciding to permanently close some offices and make its teams full...

On this episode, Cassandra sits down with Brian Litvack, CEO and Co-Founder at LeagueApps. LeagueApps is the operating system and community for youth and local sports leaders. It provides them with the technology and professional network they need to succeed.   Brian talks about changes in culture and company objectives as a result of the pandemic and the move to a hybrid work environment. He also...

On this episode Jordan talks with Vadim Yasinovsky, Co-Founder & CPO at airSlate / PDFfiller.com. AirSlate helps users design, integrate, and automate document workflows using a single, no-code platform.   Among other astonishing facts on the ground, Vadim shares how he and his team evacuated airSlate’s workforce from Ukraine. Roughly 70% of the team was located there in February 2022. Those same...

On this episode Jordan talks with Max Yoder, CEO & Co-Founder of Lessonly. Lessonly had been building training software to help teams learn, practice, and do better work until it was recently acquired by Seismic, another player in the same space. Max has also authored two books, including To See It, Be It, which is full of notes on business and life.   Max shares his philosophy on how companies ca...