The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR

Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Vimeo) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about intentional culture building, how to bring your core values to life on your people team, and why Vimeos People Team operates like a product team. ---- This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly  here . ---- Timestamps: (3:05) Good news stories (8:15) Crystal...

Rajeeb Dey (Founder & CEO, Learnerbly) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about why we need to rethink the ROI of learning, how to create hyper-personalized learning experiences, and commonly held beliefs in L&D that we need to let go of. ---- This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly  here . ---- Timestamps: (3:05) Good news stories...

Yael Irom (Head of Leadership & Professional Enablement at Tanium) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about Tanium’s co-hort based leadership programs and the reception they’ve received thus far. ---- This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here . ---- Timestamps: (2:30) Good news stories (7:20) Her early career was founding public sch...

Q Hamirani (Chief People Officer, Paper) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about the Live and Work Anywhere Program from his time at Airbnb, how he navigates moments of uncertainty, and how he’s approaching his first 90 days as Chief People Officer at Paper. ---- This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here:  https://get.learnerbly.com/mp...

Penny Farinha (VP, Human Resources, ecobee) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about scaling the ecobee people team from 1 to 25, how her role has evolved, and why more companies should admit when they don’t have all the answers. This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here: https://get.learnerbly.com/mpl/ Timestamps: (6:57) Growing the HR...

Kristy Lilas (Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about how to identify the processes at your company that aren’t inclusive or equitable and sneaky ways you can incorporate DEIB into programs that already exist. This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here: https://get.learnerbly.com/mp...

Charter’s Massella Dukuly (Head of Workplace Strategy + Innovation) and Emily Goligoski (Head of Research, SVP) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about making the implicit explicit and why internal mentorship programs are a cheat code for organizations. Timestamps:   (1:50) Good news stories (6:20) How Charter is helping the HR community (10:34) Why this work is important to them (...

This week we had four 3-time guests on for an MPL Group Chat:  Lyndsay Lord, CHRO at DECA Dental Group Dilshan Ratnayake, Leading HR Executive Rhiana Barr, Chief People Officer at Snap Finance Kristen Barbor, Leading HR Executive We talked about the future of work and why we need more Chief People Officers to transition into the CEO role. Timestamps:   (1:37) Good news stories (8:50) Biggest refle...

Kat Steinmetz (Principal, Initialized Capital) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the HR skills that are useful as a VC and why more people from HR should make the jump into VC. Timestamps:   (1:12) Good news stories (6:22) At one point Kat was a touring musician, makeup artist, and HR leader all at the same time (16:00) Being a “multi-potentialite” (21:20) Why we should be jea...

Kate Parente (Chief People Officer, Pega) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about making the office a magnet, building a strong relationship with your CEO, and the power of storytelling as a people leader. Timestamps:   (1:22) Good news stories (13:00) This is her first Chief People Officer role (17:00) Why we should be jealous she gets to work at Pega (20:00) The paradigm shift tha...

Angela Crossman (Chief People Officer, Brex) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about her journey into HR (non profit admin, massage therapist, & consultant), bringing your internal & external listening data together, and getting creative with offsites. Timestamps:   (2:00) Good news stories (5:03) Her career journey  (13:17) Why we should be jealous that she gets to work at...

Caitlin Kamm (Head of People Growth, Envoy) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why it’s impossible for people teams to make everybody happy, Envoy’s focus on inclusion, and why organizations needs to focus on their EVP. Timestamps :   (2:08) Good news stories (7:20) Going from law to HR (13:30) What Envoy does (15:05) Why we should be jealous she gets to work at Envoy (23:10) I...

Kelly Minella (Head of Recruiting, Calendly) joined us on The Modern People Leader live from Transform. Timestamps:   (0:30) What’s giving her energy at Transform (1:07) Inclusive hiring practices (2:17) Exciting recruiting tech she discovered at Transform (3:07) Weathering the storm in Talent Acquisition (5:45) Biggest lessons learned in the last year or two (8:50) Future or fad TA edition  (13:1...

Angela Cheng-Cimini (CHRO, Harvard Business Publishing) joined us on The Modern People Leader live from Transform. Timestamps:   (0:23) What’s giving her energy at Transform (2:00) The one thing she wanted people to take away from her session at Transform (4:20) People want hyper-personalization in their employee experience (5:40) Why pay transparency is so near and dear to her (7:03) Understandin...

Ian White (Founder & CEO, ChartHop) joined us on The Modern People Leader live from Transform. Timestamps:   (0:20) What’s giving him energy at Transform (2:16) The pandemic was forcing function on a lot of the trends we were already seeing (3:30) The panel he led on compensation (4:20) Data is nothing without context (6:00) Getting a single view of all of your people in your organization (11:...

Donald Knight (Chief People Officer, Greenhouse) joined us on The Modern People Leader live from Transform. Timestamps:   (0:30) What’s giving him energy at Transform (2:00) The pitfalls of DEI (3:49) The “full house” ERG at Greenhouse (6:30) Companies that are choosing to cut their DEI teams and initiatives are telling you exactly who they have always been (9:30) Measuring the quality of impact (...

Kevin Lowell (Chief People Officer, UScellular) joined us on The Modern People Leader live from Transform. Timestamps:   (1:07) What’s giving him energy at Transform (2:25) AI in HR (7:40) Why the power of the peer is near and dear to Kevin (11:40) Bringing a CIO mindset and a healthy skepticism to the Chief People Officer role (15:40) What he’s the most excited to learn as a new Chief People Offi...

Maureen Calabrese (Chief People Officer, Modern Health) joined us on The Modern People Leader live from Transform. Timestamps:   (0:57) What’s giving her energy at Transform (1:40) Being burnt out on burnout (5:06) Distinguishing burnout from something else (6:20) Her journey from analytics to HR (7:09) Her passion for the topic of mental health (11:00) The one thing she wanted people to take away...

Mahima Chawla (Co-Founder & CEO, Cocoon) joined us on The Modern People Leader live from Transform. Timestamps:   (1:00) What’s giving her energy at Transform (2:00) Her founder story (5:03) Caring for caregivers (6:09) 20% of employees are caregiving in some way (7:29) Individuals are twice as likely to stay at a company if they have a strong mentor (12:00) The one thing she wanted people to...

Jolen Anderson (Global Head of People, BYN Mellon) joined us on The Modern People Leader live from Transform. Timestamps:   (2:00) What’s giving her energy right now (4:25) How impact, people, and purpose are coming together (6:04) What’s going to stick from all of the change the last few years (8:43) Navigating many competing demands as an HR leader at one time (11:20) Giving people more choices...

Tracie Sponenberg (Chief People Officer, The Granite Group) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about what it's like working in HR for a traditional company, The Granite Group’s journey to modernizing their people function, and why the HR community is so important to her. Timestamps:   (1:40) Good news stories (6:11) Why Tracie wanted to be in HR ever since high school (8:35) What...

Heidi Hauver (Chief People Officer, TrackTik) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the process she followed for finding her CPO role, going beyond “Data 101”, and the parallels between leadership and parenting. Timestamps:   (1:20) Good news stories (7:08) Getting her degree while working her way up to the director level (13:00) Thinking outside of the box with recruiting (16:30)...

Merary Soto-Saunders (Global Head of DEI, CVC Partners) and Ciara Lakhani (Chief People Officer, Dashlane) joined us on The Modern People Leader for a group chat. We talked about the skills they look for when hiring, embedding DEI into everything that we do, and why the future of work is more transparent. Timestamps:   (1:52) Good news stories (5:22) Acknowledging that we’re going through stressfu...

Jennifer Christie (Chief People Officer, DocuSign) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the personalization of the HR function, how they keep their people team of 250 employees moving in the same direction, and the spirit of their future of work strategy. Timestamps:   (1:20) Good news stories (4:14) Her career journey: government service, executive search @ American Express, Hea...

Bernard Coleman (Chief Diversity & Engagement Officer, Gusto) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about his journey from politics to HR, how Gusto’s Employee Engagement team is structured, and common manager missteps. Timestamps: (4:01) Bernard’s journey from politics into HR (7:16) Learnings from politics that he’s been able to apply to HR (11:18) Why we should be jealous he gets...