NOW of Work

THEN:  She became Miss North Dakota for a big reason: to use her voice as a young Black woman on a platform with influence and reach in a place not expecting to see someone like her. Rosie Nestingen tells Jess Von Bank, our Head of Marketing and Now of Work community host, about the day she arrived at a school assembly to share her inspirational youth message with grade school kids....

It's OFFICIALLY the 2nd half of 2021. Does your company still operate like it's 2019? A pandemic, unique labor market, and sweeping social movements all have the power to permanently alter human psyche. They can impact and forever change how we see people and work. Plain and simple, your organization shouldn't look the same as it did a year ago. How do you take steps to change things for GOOD? Tun...

What keeps every HR & People leader up at night should come as no surprise. Every organization continues to plot and prioritize post-pandemic pivots around DEI; the mental wellbeing of the workforce; optimizing tech and streamlining workflows for the digital and hybrid workplace; and leading people with more transparency, more empathy, and increased personalization and flexibility. We hav...

This is the most exciting time to be in this industry. Does that mean we're in peace time? No, we are in flipping war time! Last year we faced a RESET. Now, more than halfway into 2021, we are confronting the Great Recovery, which is competing against the Great Resignation. People want more and expect better. They also need to reestablish trust and connection in the #NowofWork. Employee Experience...

Join Steve Boese, HR Technology Conference Chair, and Jason Averbook, CEO & Founder of Leapgen, as they discuss ways HR can utilize technology to help employees achieve their goals, improve their skills, and enhance their career development.  Thanks for joining the conversation!

Jennings Wynn is a CUSTOMER champion for recruiting solutions that deliver results, but he's also a PEOPLE champion for equity, diversity, creating spaces for belonging, and inclusive workplaces. He has deep expertise in Employee Resource Groups and the real value they can bring the business, he talks about the use of pronouns and inclusive language and workplace practices, and he tells a rich sto...

Today's Digital Meetup is pretty inspiring. Jess and I are thrilled to welcome Lindsay Wrege to our broadcast. You may remember Lindsay from our #NowofWork podcast. In fact, her interview holds the top spot for our most listened to episode to-date. Lindsay's best friends in grade school were disabled. She grew up in their world with adaptive activities and inclusive classrooms. Afte...

We are excited about today's Digital Meetup, and we have two stellar guests on deck! How we tell the story of work changed completely when work changed completely. Jess and Jason are joined by Katrina Kibben, CEO of Three Ears Media. Katrina is a professional work storyteller with special expertise in writing job descriptions FOR the candidate, not ABOUT the employer. We talk about using inclusive...

"One thing that we've been looking at and starting to see is this blending of societal culture and organizational culture. We're starting to identify ourselves in very a left and right way...This is starting to get a little bit dangerous, in how we build organizational culture."  Fascinating chat with Dan Riley, Co-Founder of RADICL, and our Jess Von Bank. On our NowofWork podcast, they peel...

Happy Friday. It's always great to reconnect with a Leapgen friend, who is a big supporter of the #NowofWork community, and making waves in it! Jess and I are excited to welcome Lisa Sterling to today's Digital Meetup! Lisa is a people crusader, talent and culture advocate, angel investor, and digital CHRO, who is a mastermind at activating the most important asset in business: PEOPLE. Enjoy this...

"We didn't start off to create a business called Experience Happiness...We started it to save our lives," Nancy O'Brien shares with Jess Von Bank on our #NowofWork #podcast.  Happiness may be a simple topic, but it's not simplistic, especially when it comes to work. On this new episode Jess chats with Nancy and Rachelle Anderson, the founders of Experience Happiness and creators of The Happin...

As the notion of "returning to work" becomes a more popular term, it's important to keep the Now of Work in focus. We need to rethink work based on what works TODAY. Prioritizing people and employee experience matters more than ever. Hybrid work models are top of mind for many organizations. How does that change how PEOPLE and TEAMS operate? On today's Digital Meetup, Jess and Jason chat with Rob...

Thomas Otter joined Leapgen’s Digital Meetup last week, and an hour just wasn’t enough.  Thomas uses a brilliant analogy for the IT strategy of any organization (are you a sunflower, daisy, cactus, or dandelion?) and explains who the power couples should be when C-level executives collaborate to modernize their function and the business overall.  Sure, we’d love see to see HR and IT part...

How do you define self-care? More importantly, how do you approach and prioritize self-care alongside demands on time, physical space, schedule, health, and work?  Covid-19 has been especially harmful for working mothers, who were already carrying a disproportionate burden of teacher, housekeeper, babysitter, therapist, and all kinds of second shift duties. Working moms are dropping out of th...

How would you rate your Workforce Experience on a scale of one to 10? Would you give it a 10? Would you say, without hesitation, that it is REMARKABLE? That's the goal; an experience where both PEOPLE THRIVE and business moves forward. On today's Digital Meetup, we're excited to dig into the topic of DESIGNING A REMARKABLE WORKFORCE EXPERIENCE TO FUEL PEOPLE AND BUSINESS. JOIN Jess and I TODAY AT...

This week Oracle announced that they want IN to the employee journeys space, and they're not alone. There's never been more activity in the HR Technology space— more urgency, funding and the intention to FOCUS ON PEOPLE; their SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, MOBILITY, DEVELOPMENT AND HAPPINESS! It's no longer just about tech. Honestly, it never was. It's about designing employee journeys using data. It's abou...

Brian Matthews is President of Appriss Insights and is responsible for the overall strategic direction, and financial performance of this leading data and analytics business focused on saving lives, preventing fraud, and keeping communities and workplaces safe. Since joining Appriss in 2017, Brian has lead Insights’ product strategy, successfully pivoting the business towards new growth opportunit...

We're 12 days away from Spring HR Technology Conference & Exposition and we're pumped! 4 Days, 7 Keynote speakers—3 Leapgen led sessions, including our Jason Averbook 's keynote: Changing Work for Good: A Whole Person Approach to Digital Transformation. AND WHAT A TREAT it's been to chat with the fellow keynote speakers every Friday on our Digital Meetups. TOMORROW we're excited to welcome Mim...

The idiom of 'canaries in the coal mine' refers to coal miners who carried caged canaries into the mines to detect carbon monoxide and other toxic gases before they could hurt humans. Kanarys (pronounced the same way) was established with the same mission: to detect toxic factors that might prevent a company from achieving a truly inclusive work culture where everyone belongs. Where humans can thr...

NOW LIVE: SmartRecruiters is on a mission to change how people and organizations think about hiring, diversity, and recruiting. With Rocki Howard at the helm, they’re poised to make a significant impact. We’re excited to welcome Rocki, their Chief Diversity Officer, to our #NowofWork Digital Meetup. “We believe that when you change the lives of people who are underrepresented, you change the world...

It's a big honor for our CEO, Jason Averbook , to welcome Global Industry Analyst, Josh Bersin , to our Now of Work Digital Meetup. In this episode they preview Josh's Spring #HRTechConf keynote " #HRTechnologyy 2021: Facilitating Big Changes in Work." Jason will also tease his talk. EACH VOICE OFFERS INCREDIBLE GUIDANCE for driving change, leading #digitaltransformation , making work better for p...

Rocki Howard is doing some of the most important work that needs to be done right now, but wishes that her job didn't exist. "I would love to live in a world where I don't have a job," she tells our Jess Von Bank in this Now of Work podcast episode. Rocki is the Chief Diversity Officer of SmartRecruiters, and explains that she's on a mission to "disrupt the intersection of diversity and recruitmen...

WE LOVE highlighting people doing innovative work in #HR , #HRTech , #DEI , & #Women in Leadership worlds! THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT. Nearly ONE THOUSAND people have registered for our Friday #NowofWork Digital Meetups!! Surely a moment to celebrate. It's also an incentive to keep doing the work to help move the industry forward. In this episode, our hosts Jason Averbook & JESS VON BANK have...

Mita Mallick is the head of inclusion, equity and impact at Carta. She's a columnist for SWAAY and has been published in Harvard Business Review, The New York Post, and Business Insider.  In this powerful conversation with Jess Von Bank, Mita tackles head on the mass exodus of women from the U.S. workforce - 2.2 million of them since the beginning of the pandemic, to be precise. In her latest...

Shereen Daniels chose HR as her profession; she did not choose anti-racism as a platform. That is, until she broke her silence. Now she knows freedom like never before, and she actively works to deconstruct racism in leadership teams, in organizational constructs, and in everyday conversation. "I wish we stepped into our power more," she told our host Jess Von Bank on the Now of Work. "It's not ab...