HR Data Labs

Send us a text Summary: Karin Buchbinder manages the team of compensation consultants at Salary.com. She is also, as it turns out, an Excel wizard. Having developed and implemented solutions globally, she’s familiar with myriad compensation management tools, including Excel. The latest version of Excel may have powerful business tools for managing compensation data, but that doesn’t mean it should...

Send us a text Summary: Tim Sackett is an HR Technology Analyst, a Top 10 Global HR Influencer, and the President of HRU Technical Resources. Over his 20+ years as an HR and talent professional, Tim has worked both in recruitment roles and in various HR generalist roles, which have all helped him understand HR from every angle possible.  In this episode, Tim looks back at 2022 and looks forward to...

Send us a text Summary: Joe Phoenix is the Co-founder and CEO of Givinga, a Philantech (i.e., philanthropic technology) firm that designs customized giving solutions. Seven years ago, Joe saw that the culture around corporate giving was changing and that employees were holding their employers to a higher standard. He left his longtime employment as Head of Global Institutional Management at Putnam...

Send us a text Summary: Sapient Insights Group is a women-owned, research and advisory firm that is passionate about adding value to clients, partners, and the HR and Finance communities they work within. They are also the proud organizers behind a massive annual HR technology survey that seeks to shed light on HR professionals’ relationships with existing and emerging technologies. What’s more, t...

Send us a text Summary: Tara Furiani is an executive, a business team builder, an influencer, a board member, a writer, a speaker, and a people leader. What’s more, she’s also the creator, executive producer, and host of Not the HR Lady and Workcations!  She is an accomplished Chief People Officer and has worked across many industries & countries with companies of all sizes, both as the top “peopl...

Send us a text Summary: As Season 4 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 revisit their predictions from last seasons and bring some new predictions for the future of HR to the table.  Chapters: [0:00 - 5:55] Introduction Welcome… David and Dwight! Today’s Topic: Season 4 Recap [5:56 - 17:42] Looking...

Send us a text Summary: Amy Mosher is the Chief People Officer at isolved where she’s responsible for the overall people strategy. She has over 20 years of global human resources experience, and she has contributed to the success of several progressive multi-national companies in various industries including biotechnology, hardware, and software. She is a subject matter expert in organizational de...

Send us a text Summary: Gerry McDonough leads the Advanced Human Capital practice within Ankura, where he also developed the firm’s proprietary Human Equity Value methodology and Culture Key culture measurement system. Prior to joining Ankura, Gerry ran his own human capital consulting firm for 23 years, where he worked on everything from organizational design to executive development and successi...

Send us a text Summary: Dr. Adam McKinnon is the People Data and Analytics Lead at Reece Group in Australia. Over the course of his career, he’s focused on driving individual, team, and organizational performance through the development and implementation of tailored analytics frameworks and methodologies.  Martha Curioni is the Associate Director of HR at IQVIA in Italy. She leverages her technic...

Send us a text Summary: After a successful career that saw him in multiple CHRO roles for a variety of major companies, Dermot O’Brien now serves as a board member of multiple advisory boards. He’s passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI) and has extensive experience with using data analytics to help organizations successfully implement DEI plans and, in turn, improve ove...

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...