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The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR
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194 - Melanie Rosenwasser (Chief People Officer, Dropbox): How Dropbox is setting employees up for success in a virtual first model
57 mins; August 13, 2024
193 - Brené Brown: Every day is leg day as a leader
70 hours 35 mins; August 06, 2024
192 - The Employee Feedback Journal: Tracy Letzerich (VP of People, Wheel)
58 mins; July 30, 2024
191 - Exos & Adam Grant's Team Explore the Four-Day Workweek: Greg Hill (Chief People Officer, Exos)
70 hours 31 mins; July 23, 2024
190 - Melanie Naranjo (VP, People, Ethena) & Vanesa Cotlar (VP, People & Culture, PolicyMe) on Performance Management
52 mins; July 16, 2024
189 - Tinkering versus true transformation: Larry McAlister, (Head of Digital Transformation, Nutanix)
55 mins; July 09, 2024
188 - “Future of HR + Modern People Leader” with JP Elliott, Stephen Huerta, & Daniel Huerta
48 mins; July 02, 2024
187 - WFH data & the 4-day workweek: Nick Bloom (Stanford Economist & Co-Founder of wfhresearch.com)
58 mins; June 25, 2024
186 - Hebba Youssef (Founder & creator of I Hate it Here & Chief People Officer at Workweek)
70 hours 5 mins; June 18, 2024
185 - DIBs 2.0—The Key Ingredients: Erin Thomas (VP, Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Upwork)
58 mins; June 14, 2024
184 - From Job Titles to Skills—A Vision for Future HR Leaders: Don Robertson (EVP & CHRO, Northwestern Mutual)
53 mins; June 11, 2024
183 - Soft skills are POWER skills: Erica Spitale
53 mins; June 07, 2024
182 - Lessons from Chief's CPO on building communities & companies: Trey Boynton (Chief Diversity & People Officer, Chief)
64 hours 41 mins; June 03, 2024
181 - Performance Culture, HR Tech, & more: Sam Baber (SVP, People, Kalkomey Enterprises)
74 hours 51 mins; May 30, 2024
180 - What happens when 3 HR leaders start a business together: PeakHR Team
69 hours 24 mins; May 24, 2024
179 - Rethinking our relationship with technology: Steve Cadigan (Former LinkedIn CHRO, Author & Professor)
54 mins; May 20, 2024
178 - Finding a More Human-Centered Approach: Dom Boon (VP People, Liberty Latin America)
53 mins; May 15, 2024
177 - Moving to “People Ops as a Product”: Matt Bradburn (Founder, The People Collective)
65 hours 30 mins; May 10, 2024
176 - Building an AI roadmap for HR & 6 use cases for AI in HR: Gianna Driver (CHRO, Exabeam)
57 mins; May 06, 2024
175 - Create mini “blue zones” in your company: Laura Putnam (CEO & Founder, Motion Infusion)
55 mins; April 30, 2024
174 - How the Spurs are redefining their EVP: Samantha Simmons (SVP, People & Culture at Spurs Sports & Entertainment)
53 mins; April 26, 2024
173 - Throwing the career path away & getting back to the basics in HR: AJ Thomas (People Leader, Board Member, & Award-Winning Author)
58 mins; April 23, 2024
172 - All-things AI in HR with 2 Chief People Officers: David Hanrahan (Chief People Officer, Flare) & Q Hamirani (Chief People Officer, Paper)
47 mins; April 18, 2024
171 - HR Leaders wanting to work at people-first orgs - ask these questions in your interview: Stacey Nordwall (VP of People Strategy, Pyn)
56 mins; April 11, 2024
170 - The path to profitability & Dena’s value framework for evaluating career moves: Dena Upton (Head of People, Dandy)
61 hours 23 mins; April 04, 2024
169 - Everything a Spreadsheet WON’T Tell You: Colleen McCreary, 6x CPO (Credit Karma, Zynga, Twilio, & more) turned VC
62 hours 41 mins; March 29, 2024
168 - It’s hard to move the needle in HR because it’s set up that way: Anessa Fike (Author, 14x Chief People Officer, & Founder of Fike+Co)
61 hours 15 mins; March 27, 2024
167 - Testing team performance reviews & insights from survey sent to 61 first-time CPOs: David Hanrahan (Chief People Officer, Flare)
55 mins; March 22, 2024
166 - Having a common management language & the “no-drama feedback model”: Lindsey Nehls (Elevate Leadership)
60 hours 47 mins; March 19, 2024
165 - Zapier's CEO & Chief People Officer: Pre-vetting their match, Zapier’s AI Hackathon, & how the people team is building with AI
49 mins; March 15, 2024
164 - Navigating big life moments at work: Jennifer Henderson (Founder & CEO, Tilt)
52 mins; March 13, 2024
163 - The job market is more broken than ever: James Hudson (former TA leader @ Nike & Levi’s)
61 hours 24 mins; March 08, 2024
162 - How Expedia's disability inclusion leader is using her superpowers to bring about change to work & travel
48 mins; March 05, 2024
161 - HR will help shape the future of human identity: The Disrupted Workforce
59 mins; March 01, 2024
160 - Dave Ulrich: The ROI of HR is "Return on Intangibles"
59 mins; February 26, 2024
159 - Huertanomics: Does going fractional in HR solve the burnout issue?
41 mins; February 23, 2024
158 - Managers will make or break your company: Luck Dookchitra (VP of People, Leapsome) & Jenny von Podewils (Co-CEO, Leapsome)
77 hours 41 mins; February 19, 2024
157 - Norton Healthcare’s Alumni Network
31 mins; February 16, 2024
156 - How to identify (and keep) your top talent: Jess Johannson (CHRO, Canada Goose)
54 mins; February 13, 2024
155 - Advice for Burnt Out Leaders: Kenneth Ceaser (Chief People & Culture Officer, Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
54 mins; February 09, 2024
154 - Embracing a Culture of Healthy Conflict: Katya Laviolette (Chief People Officer, 1Password)
64 hours 48 mins; February 06, 2024
153 - Reverse integrating a 10k employee company into a startup: Holly May (Former Chief People Officer at Datavant)
55 mins; February 02, 2024
152 - Southwest Airlines' Culture Team, Onboarding, & Moments that Matter: Whitney Eichinger (SVP & Chief Communications Officer) & Lori Winters (VP Total Rewards)
21 mins; January 31, 2024
151 - Becoming a more Transparent Organization: Adam Horne (Co-Founder, Open Org)
60 hours 57 mins; January 29, 2024
150 - How Top Companies Build Winning Cultures: Simon Taylor (Head of Organization Effectiveness, Gap)
70 hours 7 mins; January 26, 2024
149 - 1,000 Days of Distributed at Atlassian (Annie Dean, VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian)
69 hours 32 mins; January 22, 2024
148 - The CHRO & CEO Relationship: Hannah Yardley (Chief People & Culture Officer, Achievers)
54 mins; January 18, 2024
147 - Help employees find their higher purpose: Sunny Grosso (Workplace Wellbeing Igniter & Culture Maven)
62 hours 11 mins; January 16, 2024
146 - The first 6 months as a Chief People Officer: Q Hamirani (Chief People Officer, Paper)
69 hours 19 mins; January 09, 2024
145 - Broken Systems & Shifting from Pay to Performance Convos: Haris Ikram (Co-Founder at CandorIQ)
70 hours 16 mins; December 18, 2023
144 - An HR Leader’s Journey with Workplace Accommodations: Jodie Cenci (HR Director, Primary.com)
65 hours 27 mins; December 13, 2023
143 - The Science of High Performing Teams: Josh Siegal (VP People, 7Shifts)
49 mins; December 05, 2023
142 - The Retention Revolution: Erica Keswin (Author, Speaker, & Workplace Strategist)
51 mins; November 28, 2023
141 - Understanding the EX across 140k employees: Johanna Söderström (EVP, Chief People Officer, Tyson Foods)
71 hours 55 mins; November 20, 2023
140 - Designing the Employee Journey & Going from CPO to HR Tech CEO: Joris Luijke (CEO of Pyn | Former CPO @ Typeform)
67 hours 52 mins; November 13, 2023
139 - Pat Wadors (Chief People Officer, UKG): Creating a Personal Scorecard, Coining “DIBs”, & The Agile Leader
61 hours 34 mins; November 06, 2023
138 - Building culture in a remote-first environment: Vanesa Cotlar (VP People & Culture, PolicyMe)
70 hours 9 mins; October 30, 2023
137 - Handling No’s from your CEO & Reminding fellow execs what HR is optimizing for: Melanie Naranjo (VP People, Ethena)
52 mins; October 23, 2023
136 - Understanding Pain Points & Using Metrics to build credibility as a People Leader: Joanna Kmiec (VP, People & Culture, Elastic Path)
56 mins; October 17, 2023
135 - Rivian CPO on scaling culture from 9 to 15,000 employees & changing the face of factory workers: Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, Rivian)
79 hours 30 mins; October 09, 2023
134 - How CHROs can align themselves closer to revenue: Jessica Zwaan (Author, Built for People) & Ryan Bonnici (CMO, Gympass)
61 hours 52 mins; October 06, 2023
133 - The 3 qualities of the smartest teams, letting AI replace routine work & fostering collective intelligence: Dr. Vivienne Ming (Professional Mad Scientist)
114 hours 22 mins; October 02, 2023
132 - Navigating major life & career changes: Alex Seiler (Former GHJ Chief People Officer, ex WeWork & NBC, and Advisor)
50 mins; September 25, 2023
131 - Key Pillars of Internal Marketing (Kerry-Ann Stimpson, The Internal Marketing Podcast)
56 mins; September 21, 2023
130 - HR 3.0 & how boards are looking at HR (L. David Kingsley, Chief People Officer at Illumio)
58 mins; September 18, 2023
129 - The Year of Productivity: Andrew Bartlow (People Leader Accelerator)
65 hours 9 mins; September 11, 2023
128 - Now is the time to double down on DEIB: Roshan Kindred (Chief Diversity Officer, PagerDuty)
61 hours 7 mins; September 05, 2023
127 - How Zillow made massive gains in DEI by embracing the future of work: Roz Francuz-Harris (VP of Talent Acquisition)
52 mins; August 28, 2023
126 - From People Leader to Solopreneur: Reflections at Year 3
69 hours 19 mins; August 24, 2023
125 - How to be a trusted advisor as a Chief People Officer: Adam Ward (Founding Partner, Growth by Design Talent)
59 mins; August 21, 2023
124 - Finding your next People Leader role: Allison Mairena (Sproul), VP People, NewGlobe
67 hours 57 mins; August 14, 2023
123 - Adaptive Pay Transparency: Ashley Brounstein (Head of People, OpenComp)
50 mins; August 08, 2023
122 - The state of AI in the workplace: Siadhal Magos (Co-Founder & CEO, Metaview)
65 hours 11 mins; July 31, 2023
121 - Memeing for HR: Jamie Jackson from Humorous Resources
42 mins; July 24, 2023
120 - Creating talent abundance for 40k employees at Goldman Sachs: David Landman (Global Head of Talent Development, Goldman Sachs)
82 hours 52 mins; July 17, 2023
119 - Operationalizing your values & improving asynchronous communication: Nadia Vatalidis (Head of People & Culture, TestGorilla)
58 mins; July 11, 2023
118 - Eliminating high friction experiences for employees & leveling up your consciousness as a leader (M Valentine, Founder, Annem HR Academy)
67 hours 14 mins; July 05, 2023
117 - Vimeo CPO on being intentional with culture building (Crystal Boysen, Chief People Officer, Vimeo)
56 mins; June 26, 2023
116 - Rethinking the ROI of learning & creating hyper-personalized learning experiences: Rajeeb Dey (Founder & CEO, Learnerbly)
56 mins; June 19, 2023
115 - People love learning together: Yael Irom (Head of Leadership & Professional Enablement, Tanium)
50 mins; June 13, 2023
114 - Q Hamirani (Chief People Officer, Paper) on building Airbnb's 'Live & Work Anywhere' program & his new Chief People Officer role
55 mins; June 06, 2023
113 - It’s ok to admit we don’t have all the answers: Penny Farinha (VP, Human Resources, ecobee)
48 mins; May 31, 2023
112 - Inclusive Processes & “Sneaky DEIB”: GoDaddy’s VP of Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging, Kristy Lilas
52 mins; May 22, 2023
111 - Internal mentorship programs are a cheat code: Charter’s Head of Workplace Strategy & Innovation (Massella Dukuly) & Head of Research, SVP (Emily Goligoski)
85 hours 3 mins; May 08, 2023
110 - 4 CPOs on the future of work & needing more CPOs in the CEO role
66 hours 13 mins; May 04, 2023
109 - VC needs more people from HR: Kat Steinmetz, Principal at Initialized Capital
67 hours 55 mins; May 01, 2023
108 - This Chief People Officer talks to her CEO daily (Kate Parente, Pegasystems)
50 mins; April 24, 2023
107 - Angela Crossman (Chief People Officer, Brex) on revamping your employee listening function & getting creative with offsites
56 mins; April 19, 2023
106 - Caitlin Kamm (Head of People Growth, Envoy) on why it's impossible for HR to make everybody happy
60 hours 50 mins; April 10, 2023
MPL Live @ Transform - Kelly Minella (Head of Recruiting, Calendly) on the hiring partner experience
22 mins; April 07, 2023
MPL Live @ Transform - Angela Cheng-Cimini (SVP, Talent & CHRO, Harvard Business Publishing) on pay transparency
15 mins; April 07, 2023
MPL Live @ Transform - Ian White (Founder & CEO, ChartHop) on compensation planning
25 mins; April 07, 2023
MPL Live @ Transform - Donald Knight (Chief People Officer, Greenhouse) on DEI progress & pitfalls
30 mins; April 07, 2023
MPL Live @ Transform - Kevin Lowell (Chief People Officer, UScellular) on the power of the peer
20 mins; April 06, 2023
MPL Live @ Transform - Maureen Calabrese (Chief People Officer, Modern Health) on being burnt out on burnout
16 mins; April 06, 2023
MPL Live @ Transform - Mahima Chawla (Co-Founder & CEO, Cocoon) on caring for caregivers
19 mins; April 06, 2023
MPL Live @ Transform - Jolen Anderson (Global Head of Human Resources, BNY Mellon) on making an impact
21 mins; April 06, 2023
105 - Tracie Sponenberg (Chief People Officer, The Granite Group) on modernizing your people function
55 mins; April 04, 2023
104 - Heidi Hauver (Chief People Officer, TrackTik/Trackforce Valiant) on fueling growth at the director + stage of your career, going beyond data 101, & the paralells between leadership and parenting
73 hours 41 mins; March 27, 2023
103 - MPL Group Chat: Hiring in HR, the expansion of DEI, & a more transparent future
53 mins; March 23, 2023
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