People Multiple

Leadership is often discussed as a competitive advantage, but what if it's actually one of the earliest indicators of enterprise value? In this episode of People Multiple , Gia Ganesh sits down with Steve Schloss, former Chief People Officer, executive coach, and Operating Partner at Edison Partners, to explore how investors evaluate leadership long before financial results reveal the outcome. Dra...

In this episode of People Multiple, Gia Ganesh sits down with Lynee, a seasoned Chief People Officer whose career spans Chevron, Intel, Mozilla, Twitter, Envoy, and NerdWallet. Together, they explore how talent decisions shape business outcomes long before they show up in revenue, valuation, or market performance. Lynee shares lessons learned from building people functions from scratch, leading th...

In this episode of People Multiple, Gia Ganesh sits down with Gabby Sirner-Cohen to explore the people decisions that shaped one of Atlanta's most successful software growth stories. Drawing on leadership experience at Google and FullStory, Gabby shares lessons on building culture before scale, hiring for long-term success, and aligning talent strategy with business transformation. The conversatio...

In this episode of People Multiple, host Gia Ganesh sits down with Patrick Lyons, founder of Lyons Group Consulting, to explore how people decisions shape business performance, organizational momentum, and ultimately enterprise value. Drawing from years of experience advising CEOs, founders, and family-owned businesses, Patrick explains why most organizational challenges that appear to be strategy...

In this episode of People Multiple , Gia Ganesh sits down with Drew Harden, Founder and CEO of Blue Compass and author of RETAIN , to explore why culture is far more than perks, mission statements, or HR initiatives. Drew shares how his own experiences working inside a once-great culture that slowly became toxic shaped his approach to leadership and ultimately led him to build a nationally recogni...

In this episode of People Multiple , Gia Ganesh sits down with Natalie Ledbetter, Managing Partner of Ledbetter Global Advisory and former Operating Partner and Chief People Officer at Boldstart Ventures, to unpack how talent decisions quietly shape enterprise outcomes long before the numbers reveal the problem. Natalie brings a rare perspective, having worked inside hypergrowth startups, scaled t...

What happens when the people function realizes it’s been measuring the wrong things all along? In this episode of People Multiple , Pilar Muner, VP of People and Talent at ChartHop, challenges the traditional playbook of HR and talent leadership. Drawing from her experience across multiple VC-backed companies and her work as a fractional leader, Pilar shares what she’s learned from seeing the same...

Amy Zimmerman believes most companies get people strategy backward. They treat culture like a support function, hiring like a gut decision, and retention like a compensation problem — when in reality, the strongest businesses understand that people decisions shape enterprise outcomes long before the numbers reflect it. In this episode of People Multiple, Amy shares the principles that helped her b...

People decisions shape enterprise value long before the numbers ever reflect it. On People Multiple host Gia Ganesh sits down with CHROs, operators, investors, and executives inside VC- and PE-backed companies to explore one core question: How do people decisions shape the enterprise multiple? In an AI-first economy where competitive advantages disappear faster than ever, leadership, culture, tale...