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The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR

Listen to interviews with CHROs, Chief People Officers, and other work experts on how they're pioneering the way that we work. They share what's working, what's not, and how they've gotten to where they're at in their careers.

292 - Why the CIO-CPO Duo Is a Force Multiplier for Companies

55 mins; April 03, 2026

291 - HR Practitioner Turned Founder (On Thinking Like a CEO): Amit Rapaport (Co-Founder & CEO, Compete)

48 mins; March 31, 2026

290 - Working for a Visionary Founder & The Great Talent Transfer: Beth Ley (Chief People Officer, Kendra Scott)

54 mins; March 27, 2026

289 - How to build an HR consulting business (And Scale to $500K Fast)

66 hours 28 mins; March 23, 2026

288 - It’s Not a Benefits Problem. It’s a Behavior Problem

63 hours 15 mins; March 18, 2026

287 - How This CEO–CPO Duo Is Preparing Their Organization for the AI Era: Alex Coonce & Patrick Quigley (Sidecar Health

64 hours 35 mins; March 13, 2026

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Great Leave Experience

54 mins; March 10, 2026

3 Frameworks to Build a Winning People Strategy (In Your First 90 Days): Melissa Theiss (Head of People Ops, Kit)

65 hours 38 mins; March 06, 2026

MPL Build AMA: So You’re People Ops as a Product Curious? (Jessica Zwaan)

59 mins; February 27, 2026

283 - The Five Frictions Framework for AI Adoption: Diane Sadowski-Joseph (Co-Founder, Clarinet)

61 hours 32 mins; February 20, 2026

282 - The Career Tradeoffs No One Talks About: Liz Bronson (VP People, Skimmer)

57 mins; February 13, 2026

Wise’s 5-Step Playbook for Building Culture Across Borders: Isabel Naidoo (Chief People Officer, Wise)

56 mins; February 10, 2026

280 - Being Async-First, Building an AI Ops Squad, & the “Embarrassing V1 Method”: Chase Warrington (Doist)

60 hours 44 mins; February 06, 2026

279 - Inside Viva’s Award-Winning AI Transformation: Jani Sanguino (Head of People, Viva)

58 mins; January 30, 2026

278 - Why MPL Live Austin Felt Different

46 mins; January 27, 2026

277 - Vanguard CHRO on Driving Change in a 20k+ Person Org: Jon Couture (CHRO, Vanguard)

62 hours 49 mins; January 20, 2026

276 - How Vidyard’s CPO Built an AI Career Coach: Sarika Lamont, Chief People Officer at Vidyard

76 hours 35 mins; January 16, 2026

Build: The Employee Base Audit with Jessica Zwaan & Pete Fader (Incompass Labs)

56 mins; January 09, 2026

274 - Kirthi Mani (Chief People Officer, CliftonLarsonAllen) on Joy Fueling Performance

49 mins; January 05, 2026

273 - Pat Lencioni on Trust, Burnout, and Finding Your Working Genius

66 hours 44 mins; December 19, 2025

272 - 3 HR Leaders Demo What They’ve Built with AI (Zapier, Vercel, Workleap)

55 mins; December 12, 2025

271 - How 100-Year-Old Company (Synchrony Financial) Runs Like a Startup: DJ Casto (CHRO)

49 mins; December 05, 2025

270 - Escape the HR Busywork Trap: Melanie Naranjo (Chief People Officer, Ethena) & Taylor McLemore (COO, Tilt)

55 mins; December 01, 2025

269 - Hybrid Teams = People + Agents: Jessica Swank (Chief People Officer, Box)

58 mins; November 21, 2025

268 - The Blueprint for a Modern HR Team: Kit Krugman (SVP, People & Culture, Foursquare)

61 hours 53 mins; November 14, 2025

267 - BNY’s Big Bet on Early Careers — and How They Built 15K Agents & 100 Digital Employees: Shannon Hobbs (Chief People Officer, BNY)

57 mins; November 07, 2025

266 - Work is the Product: Luke O'Mahoney (Founder & Creator, Sapienˣ)

69 hours 20 mins; October 31, 2025

265 - The 4 Pillars of a Distributed Operating Model: Darren Murph (Future of Work Consultant)

57 mins; October 24, 2025

264 - HR buys healthcare for half of America, but the system’s broken — here’s how to “moneyball” it

53 mins; October 22, 2025

263 - This Chief People Officer Redesigned HR Around Workflows: Andrew Golden (Chief People Officer, RetailNext)

53 mins; October 17, 2025

262 - LVMH CHRO on Culture & AI: Gena Smith (CHRO, LVMH North America)

55 mins; October 14, 2025

261 - AI Confessions: What HR Leaders Really Think (Recorded Live at HR Tech)

69 hours 36 mins; October 10, 2025

260 - What we learned from MPL Live New York City

47 mins; October 08, 2025

259 - Omni’s CHRO on Building Culture That Sticks: Joy Rothschild (CHRO, Omni Hotels & Resorts)

48 mins; October 03, 2025

Build - How to stress-test your business case with Jessica Zwaan

37 mins; September 29, 2025

257 - Decoupling performance from compensation: Kim Minnick (Code Traveller HR)

59 mins; September 23, 2025

256 - Leading Through Layoffs & Constant Change (Mita Mallick, Shelby Garrison, & Kelly Lohr)

58 mins; September 19, 2025

255 - DEI’s New Reality: Yemi Akisanya (Head of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, Axon)

69 hours 7 mins; September 16, 2025

Build - “AI Abstinence” & Why Your HR Team Needs an AI Fair Use Policy

61 hours 22 mins; September 05, 2025

253 - The AI Vendor Checklist Every HR Leader Needs: Pilar Muner (VP of People & Talent, ChartHop)

86 hours 26 mins; September 02, 2025

252 - What HR can do about revenue problems & flipping the HR pyramid: JooBee Yeow (Learngility)

64 hours 9 mins; August 29, 2025

251 - The CHRO’s Toughest Chapter Yet & What HR Brings to the Boardroom: Tiffany Stevenson (Former CPO @ WeightWatchers & Patreon)

58 mins; August 27, 2025

250 - In the age of AI, managers are still the glue: Priscila Bala (CEO, LifeLabs Learning)

61 hours 37 mins; August 22, 2025

249 - AI’s First Cuts Are SaaS Tools: Jenny Molyneaux (VP People, Vercel)

67 hours 2 mins; August 19, 2025

248 - How to make in-person time count

61 hours 27 mins; August 15, 2025

Build - The three ELTV formulas every HR leader should know: Jessica Zwaan (Author, Built For People & COO, Talentful)

52 mins; August 13, 2025

246 - How New York Life Is Using AI to Transform Careers: Joanne Rodgers (CHRO, New York Life)

60 hours 52 mins; August 08, 2025

245 - The Leave Experience Is a Culture Test

65 hours 30 mins; August 05, 2025

244 – Why IT Reports to HR & Learning the Language of AI: Kahina Ouerdane (Chief People Officer, Workleap)

61 hours 46 mins; August 01, 2025

243 - Rethinking Org Design in the AI Era: Alex Buder Shapiro, Chief People Officer at Jasper

58 mins; July 29, 2025

242 - Eliza Jackson (Chief People & Administrative Officer, ButcherBox)

60 hours 29 mins; July 25, 2025

Build - The What, Why, & How of Creating an Employee Journey Map: Joris Luijke (CEO, Pyn) & Jessica Zwaan (Author, Built for People)

57 mins; July 22, 2025

240 - Why HR should own the workflows & not just the workforce: Thomas Forstner, VP of People and Talent at Juro

66 hours 24 mins; July 18, 2025

239 - Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, HubSpot): The growing trust gap at work

62 hours 16 mins; July 11, 2025

238 - The Art of Business Partnering: Lenke Taylor (Chief People Officer, Personio)

58 mins; July 09, 2025

237 - Performance expectations have shifted: Danny Guillory (Chief People Officer, Glassdoor), Lisa Anne Logan (Chief of Staff, People, Asana), Dashini Jeyathurai (Head of Talent Development at Gusto)

63 hours 13 mins; July 03, 2025

Build - The Metrics That Actually Matter in HR: Jessica Zwaan (Author, Built For People)

57 mins; June 27, 2025

235 - 3 principles this Head of People swears by to build high-impact teams – Frieda Möcker (Head of People & Culture, Sastrify)

54 mins; June 20, 2025

MPL Live SF: HR is the glue holding everything together right now

103 hours 6 mins; June 13, 2025

Build - How to Hire for People Ops as a Product: Jessica Zwaan (Author, Built for People)

49 mins; June 06, 2025

232: The Modern Compensation Playbook: Matt McFarlane (Director, FNDN) & Haris Ikram (Co-Founder & CEO, CandorIQ)

63 hours 51 mins; May 30, 2025

231 - Organizational Network Analysis Explained: Abby Brennan, Former Head of People Strategy & Operations at Carta

64 hours 9 mins; May 23, 2025

Build - How to structure a “People Ops as a Product team”

54 mins; May 16, 2025

229 - The Founder's Mentality at Nextdoor: Bryan Power (Head of People, Nextdoor)

67 hours 35 mins; May 12, 2025

Build - Nobody gets People Ops as a Product 100% right (and that’s ok): Jessica Zwaan (Author, Built for People)

57 mins; May 06, 2025

227 - How to build AI workflows for HR: Taylor Bradley (VP, Talent Strategy & Success, Turing)

58 mins; May 02, 2025

226 - The 3 secrets to teamwork in 2025: Molly Sands (Head of the Teamwork Lab, Atlassian)

59 mins; April 25, 2025

225 - Pat Wadors (CHRO, Intuitive) on amplifying the “golden nuggets” of your culture

68 hours 53 mins; April 21, 2025

Build - Jessica Zwaan: Story behind her obsession w/ People Ops as a Product

51 mins; April 11, 2025

223 - Shane Koller (Chief People Officer, Ancestry): Running your People Team like a Product Team

62 hours 2 mins; April 04, 2025

222 - Michele Bousquet (Chief People Officer, Strava): Stop overcomplicating HR

72 hours 15 mins; March 28, 2025

221 - Caregivers are stretched thin. It’s time we paid attention: Michael Walsh (CEO, Cariloop)

62 hours 50 mins; March 21, 2025

MPL Live Boston: Engagement scores don’t tell the full story (CPOs of DraftKings, Klaviyo, and Smartcat)

106 hours 38 mins; March 14, 2025

219 - 4x Chief People Officer on leadership & making AI a priority: Shlomit Gruman-Navot

63 hours 35 mins; March 10, 2025

218 - Why AI makes learning “scaled to one”: Brandon Carson (Chief Learning Officer, Docebo)

71 hours 29 mins; March 01, 2025

217 - Tackling "People Debt": Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Sprout Social)

61 hours 27 mins; February 21, 2025

216 - Your CEO pushing for RTO? Ask these 5 Q’s: Brian Elliott (CEO, Work Forward)

67 hours 49 mins; February 14, 2025

215 - Lucia Guillory, Chief People Officer at Virta Health

51 mins; February 10, 2025

214 - The anti-DEI push, RTO mandates, and is HR tech losing its way?

62 hours 35 mins; January 31, 2025

213 - David Scott (Chief People & Administration Officer at ADT) on ADT's transformation to a tech company

56 mins; January 24, 2025

212 - 2025 Predictions from LPGA's Chief People & Internal Operations Officer

53 mins; January 17, 2025

211 - The 2024 MPL Awards

42 mins; January 08, 2025

Best of MPL (Aug '24): Brené Brown

70 hours 35 mins; December 31, 2024

210 - Hope Isn’t a Strategy: How a Chief People Officer Transformed Their Life

54 mins; December 17, 2024

209 - Little L Leaders: The Unsung Heroes (Robert H. Johnson Jr., Author & Speaker)

72 hours 0 mins; December 10, 2024

Best of MPL (Jan '24): 1,000 Days of Distributed at Atlassian (Annie Dean, VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian)

66 hours 45 mins; December 02, 2024

208 - Michelle Kay, VP of Learning & Development at Albertsons Companies

55 mins; November 19, 2024

207 - The Election & Microdosing on Hope: Brandon Sammut (Chief People Officer, Zapier) & Gianna Driver (Chief People Officer, Lattice)

47 mins; November 12, 2024

206 - More Generosity & Less Chest-Pumping in HR: Frank Congui (EVP, Human Capital Strategy & Executive Partnerships at Randstad Enterprise)

59 mins; November 08, 2024

205 - Why CHROs are rethinking their roles: Jenna Eichberg (Chief People Officer at AlertMedia)

66 hours 4 mins; October 29, 2024

204 - Tracy Avin (Founder, TroopHR)

53 mins; October 23, 2024

203 - The inverted org chart, CEO Alignment & the art & science of compensation: Ray Martinelli (Chief People Officer, Contentful)

59 mins; October 15, 2024

202 - VC on helping founders with talent strategy, exec searches, & people challenges (Sandra Schwarzer, Index Ventures)

60 hours 52 mins; October 09, 2024

201 - Live: Rethinking Performance & Compensation (David Hanrahan, Chief People Officer at Flare & Jessica Zwaan, Author of Built for People)

56 mins; October 05, 2024

200 - MPL Live Austin: AI in HR & Election Year (Katie Burke, Former CPO at HubSpot & Gianna Driver, CPO at Lattice)

55 mins; September 26, 2024

199 - OKRs, Pancake Sprints, & The Power of a 30-60-90 Day Plan: Vanessa Monsequeira (VP of People, Gorilla)

63 hours 23 mins; September 17, 2024

198 - Jeff Schmitz (Chief People Officer, Zebra Technologies) on launching new purpose statement & values

58 mins; September 10, 2024

197 - Nicole Hughey (Former SVP, DEI at SiriusXM) on the shifting language of DEIB, the SHRM debate, & the heart of inclusion

59 mins; September 03, 2024

196 - Michael C. Bush, CEO at Great Place To Work®

86 hours 10 mins; August 27, 2024

195 - Qualities of high-performing founders: Polly Barnes (Operating Partner, Talent at EQT Ventures)

58 mins; August 20, 2024

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