How People Work

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan speaks with Jen Paxton, VP of People at Smile.io. Jen was the previous VP of People and Talent at Privy, an e-commerce marketing platform that helps small and growing brands get from $0 to $1 million in online sales. Jen works on building a company that employees and candidates love. Jen talks about her Master’s degree in opera, what that e...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan speaks with Chloe Lipp Wellman, the Associate Director of Culture Transformation at Sprinklr. Sprinklr is the world’s leading unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform. They help companies deliver a more unified and human experience to every customer, every time, at once-impossible scale. Headquartered in New York City w...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan speaks with Madison Murdock, HR Specialist with gigRonin. GigRonin is a company that provides a white-label app to staffing agencies to increase sales, promote recruiter efficiency and support client retention by deploying contingent workers' jobs to opportunities with an intuitive, user-friendly mobile experience. Madison talks about what...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan speaks with Tammy Bjelland, Founder and CEO of Workplaceless. Workplaceless is a training company that improves remote and hybrid team effectiveness by developing the capabilities that workers, managers and executives need to succeed in distributive environments. With a background in higher education, publishing, EdTech, e-learning and corp...

On this episode of The BragWorthy Podcast, Jordan speaks with Andy Racic, current Senior Director of Enterprise at Seismic and former Head of Sales at Tango Health. Tango Health is a leader in the employee benefits decision support and engagement space. Andy has 10 years of progressive sales experience within the HR realm, ranging from talent acquisition, headhunting, payroll and HCM, and decision...

On this episode of The BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Tim Flanagan Jr. and Amanda Kramer of MassMutual Carolinas. Tim took over as General Agent of MassMutual Carolinas in 2004, and Amanda supports the firm's purpose of helping people win in all aspects of life by creating an environment of success, trust and belonging. Tim and Amanda talk about the value of balance through COVID ti...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan speaks with Fay Manolios, the Head of Total Rewards for Capital One. Capital One is on a mission to help customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity and humanity back to banking. Fay has held a variety of leadership positions across HR at Capital One. She was named Head of Total Rewards in 2017, and her role includes compensation, r...

On this episode of the Bragworthy Culture Podcast, Jordan meets with Cassandra Rose, Partner at Meritarc and former Global Benefits Director at Sprinklr. Cassandra has held roles in multi-billion dollar global brands and unicorn startups, and she often speaks on the topics of benefits literacy and centering the BIPOC employee journey for transformative employee engagement.  Cassandra explains how...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Brandon Wood from Maestro Health. Brandon is the COO at Maestro and has over 20 years of experience in the benefits space. He joined Maestro to deliver a world-class experience through their self-funded solution. He has been in and around the benefits world for a long time and has been a leader at ADP, WageWorks and PayFlex. Bran...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan speaks with Lorie Boyd, CPO at Turo, the largest car-sharing marketplace. Lorie is in charge of everything people and places.  Lorie tells Jordan about the best ideas that came out of COVID when the company was forced to figure out many challenges, such as supporting people while working remotely. She talks about how meaningful and rewardin...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture podcast, Jordan talks with Erica McMannes, COO and Co-Founder of InstantTeams and the InstantTeams Academy. InstantTeams builds high-quality customer support and operation teams for companies with military-connected talent, located globally and in every time zone, enabling 24/7 support. Erica has been an active-duty Army spouse for 19 years and found the m...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Kimberly Morgan, the COO of LendUp. Kimberly’s mission is to evolve the company's operations to match the growing needs and goals of the organization. With over two decades of experience driving operational excellence, she is smashing barriers by building high-performing, diverse teams that focus on cultural awareness to increase...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Jennifer Garrison, Tinuiti’s Chief People Officer. Her talents lie in empowering culture and scaling organizations. Over the past 6 years, Jennifer has grown Tinuiti from a small agency of fewer than 100 employees to over 700.  Jordan and Jennifer discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the business and what ideas were produced during...

On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Paul Hughes, the Senior Director of Employee Engagement at Noble Network of Charter Schools. Noble is a non-profit organization that runs 17 charter public high schools and one middle school in Chicago.   Jordan and Paul discuss how the business learned how to function during COVID-19 and ideas that have come out of pandemic time...

On this episode of The BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan speaks with Karishma Patel Buford, the CPO at OppLoans. OppLoans powers banks to help middle-income, credit-challenged consumers gain access to credit. Karishma is responsible for setting up long-term visions, missions and an employee brand that will shape culture and fuel the next stage of business growth.   Jordan and Karishma talk about...

On the first episode of The BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with FarWell’s Head of Employee Experience, Nick Lombardino. Aside from employee experience, Nick has had multiple roles in marketing operations and client solutions, and he is also the co-founder of CultureCon.   Jordan and Nick talk about building and developing a positive company culture and environment, and how to thoughtfull...