PX Espresso☕with Luke O'Mahoney

Send us Fan Mail Back again with a solocast after close to a 6 month break! I give a an update on half year business performance as well as talking about what's planned for the second half of the year.  In these solocasts I share everything I am learning as a fist time founder bootstrapping to £1 mil AR. Some of todays themes: Product updates User discovery Profitability Brand refresh / re-al...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Sarah Power , Head of People and Operations at Vable , shares her journey of building a thriving remote-first culture in a high-growth environment. From operationalising company values like kindness and ownership to balancing parenting with work, Sarah offers practical advice and personal stories that highlight the importance of transparency, flexibility, and psyc...

Send us Fan Mail Kicking off this year with a look back on 2024, in fact a look back on the first 3 years as a Solopreneur, from revenue and cashflow to product and community, all documented in this reflective episode. Enjoy - Catch you next time! ✌️ ------------------------------------------------- Support for this episode of the PX Espresso Hour comes from: Sana - an AI company transforming how...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Luke chats with Dart Lindsley, strategic advisor of People Experience @ Google and Co-founder of 11fold , a company formed to help companies design, build and deliver work that makes employees feel alive. Dart has over 25 years of experience in HR, business architecture, and PX product design, and is leading the charge on transforming how organisations think about work...

Send us Fan Mail Boooooom 💥Back once again with the ill behaviour 😎 This week, Luke chats with Alice Burks, Director of People Success at one the fastest growing global People Tech scale-ups, Deel 🚀... in fact, not just in People tech; Deel is one of the the fastest-growing start-ups in history 😱 Meet Alice 🌟Prior to Deel, Alice was Global Head of Learning at DICE and Global Leadership Develo...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Luke chats with Kinfolk co-founder, Jeet Mukerji. As a former Product Manager and current co-founder building HR Tech, Jeet has a TON of valuable insights to share about how People Teams can leverage Product Management principles to be more strategic and drive value + growth. Meet Jeet 🌟 Band Manager turned Product Manager, turned People Tech Co-founder... Jeet brings...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of my conversation with Lauren Gomes , experienced VP People and pioneer of People Experience as a Product. In part 1 we explored Lauren’s career and the reality of life in the People team in hyper-growth start-ups / scale-ups. In Part 2, we get much more practical and tactical focusing on defining and getting started with PX as a Product 🤘🏻 Meet Lauren 🌟 Lauren...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Luke chats with Lauren Gomes , experienced VP People and pioneer of People Experience as a Product. Meet Lauren 🌟 Lauren is a People Experience leader who honed her craft during ASOS & Booking.com’s remarkable hyper growth phases, before finding her home in scaling start ups. She’s known for growing and transforming People teams; embedding the concept of Peopl...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the PX Espresso Hour, Luke chats with John Faulkner-Willcocks, co-founder of OpenOrg, about his "squiggly" journey into the People profession, the challenges of entrepreneurship, and balancing fatherhood and work. Meet John 🌟 John shares his transition into the People space from a non-traditional background, how to make culture tangible and the unique chall...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Luke chats with Katja, founder of Shape Up HR, about progressive people practices, product-led PX design, Agile HR, and HR tech. Meet Katja 🌟 Katja shares her journey from working in startups to becoming an HR tech and process design expert. She discusses the rapid learning opportunities in startups and the career growth they offer, along with the challenges and benefi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Luke discusses his experience as a solopreneur in the field of people ops. He talks about the challenges and insecurities he faces as he transitions from an operational practitioner to a researcher and creator. Luke shares his business goals and his plan to scale his revenue to one million pounds annually. He also explains his growth hacking strategy and the impor...

Send us Fan Mail Summary: Luke and Rita discuss the importance of creating exceptional learning experiences through a problem-led approach. They emphasize the need to focus on the big idea and the evidence of learning, rather than just the content. They also highlight the importance of interactivity and personalization in learning experiences. Rita shares her journey from working in an NGO to L&am...

Send us Fan Mail Takeaways Camel organizations, which are sustainable and self-sufficient, are becoming more important than unicorn organizations with high valuations but high burn rates. Characteristics of camel organizations include intentional design, co-creation, effective communication, and a focus on business goals. HR professionals should prioritize and focus on business goals, understand n...

Send us Fan Mail Summary: In this conversation, Rita discusses her experience in People Operations within small businesses and startup / scale-ups. She emphasizes the importance of building a strong foundation in HR and the unique challenges and opportunities that come with being a small and lean organization. Rita also shares insights into the recent acquisition of her company and the potential f...

Send us Fan Mail Key Takeaways (Ai Generated): Effective learning programs start with analysis and discovery to understand the needs of individuals and the organization. Design principles should focus on a holistic approach, spaced learning, and interactive experiences. Consider individual learning styles and create programs that cater to different preferences. Focus on behavioral change and creat...

Send us Fan Mail  Booooom 💥 This week is a Solocast, part of the Diary of a People Ops Solopreneur subseries, where I share my experience of building and scaling a business of one in the People / HR space. In Vol. 3, I talk about: Using LinkedIn to build an audience (10 month content update) 2023 Product Retro Lessons Learned from building and launching 2 cohort based programmes Beta launch of my...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: Understanding your People Product and the role you are there to play as a the People Lead Defining and operationalising organisational health "Fixing the roof whilst the sun shines" to survive the inevitable crises which will come! "SLT first approach" - Recognising that SLT need to operate like a team, not a group of individuals who manage oth...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: Fundamentals of AI and how to start engaging with it What are GPTs and how should we use them? Democratising access and the benefits of generative AI Creating organisational guardrails around the use of AI Potential impact of AI for Job Seekers How to start using AI in People OPs / HR As always, I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope that you do too! Guest...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: Transitioning from IC to People Manager How Frieda got past her biggest bottle neck... Herself! Finding confidence as a Leader Getting started with Product Led People Ops Co-creating a PX vision: Company Behaving Awesomely If you are just starting out as a first time Head of People OR first time People Manager, this was such a refreshing conversation. It's RE...

Send us Fan Mail Booooom 💥 The second instalment of the Diary of a People Ops Solopreneur subseries, where I share my experience of building and scaling a business of one in the People / HR space. In Vol. 2, I talk about: Content strategy and updates on audience and community growth (including the top line numbers follower count, impressions and engagement etc) Upcoming rebrand and core brand mes...

Send us Fan Mail Booooom 💥 Another very enjoyable conversation to share with you today! I was joined by Ella Overshott, Co-founder of Culture Change agency, Pecan Partnerships. We got super nerdy about cultural evolution and explored what is required to create great workplaces where people love to work and customers love to do business. Some of the conversational threads we pulled on: The Cultura...

Send us Fan Mail Booooom 💥 This was a really great conversation and one I had been looking forward to for a while. I have been following Figures and the work Virgile have been doing with Figures for the last year or so. Not only is their work impactful and a much needed innovation to compensation benchmarking and transparency, but their internal culture also seems to be really solid and genuinely...

Send us Fan Mail Guest Bio: Jessica is the author of Amazon Best Selling, Built for People and founder of Being People consultancy.  A hands-on COO who finds joy in diverse, kind, and world-changing companies of excellent people, like Whereby , where the mission is to build a world where anywhere works. Previously: VP People, Culture, an Talent for UK Tech Track #1 Wonderbly, Yieldify, Box Contact...

Send us Fan Mail Booom 💥 Another AWESOME conversation, this week with pioneer of modern L&D and an inspirational solopreneur turned entrepreneur 🤘🏻 The main focus of our conversation was exploring "learning" as a concept and unpacking how to go about designing learning experiences which actually land and lead to meaningful change. Some of the general themes we touched on include:...

Send us Fan Mail   Guest Bio: Colleen Saringer, PhD - Fractional Chief Wellbeing Officer - is an accomplished population health expert, published author and speaker. She has 25 years of experience helping  organisations nationwide (USA) solve for the transformation of workplace culture and climate through the lens of health, well-being, equity, inclusion, policy and cross-collaboration. Contact Co...