How People Work

On this episode, Cassandra Rose speaks with David Yovanno, CEO and Board Director at impact.com. Impact.com helps businesses manage and optimize all kinds of partnerships, including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers and B2B. The company’s purpose-built platform makes it easy for companies to create, manage and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with brands and communities.

David explains how the pandemic led to a change in how the company communicates, which has led to positive changes that couldn’t have been foreseen. He also discusses some of the ways that an organization can think about and foster company culture, including the power of building trust and the importance of highlighting the positive in the face of the access to negative news that technology offers today.

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On this episode, Cassandra speaks with Rick Hammell, CEO at Atlas. Atlas helps innovative companies to employ whomever they want, wherever the talent exists. They help onboard talent, manage compliance and pay a global workforce without the need for a local entity or multiple third-party providers. They are currently in over 160 countries and offer a platform that improves user experience and provides self-service capabilities.

Rick shares how the idea for Atlas evolved out of a problem he was experiencing while working on a government contract in a foreign country. It was a nightmare to get people paid. The pain those contractors felt has always been front and center for Atlas and has informed the way it has built its platform: optimized for the customer experience, ensuring that employees don’t have to worry about pay or benefits. Rick is never satisfied. He believes that if you think you’re doing your best, you can always do better. 

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On this episode, Cassandra speaks with Michael Katz, CEO and Co-Founder at mParticle. mParticle makes it easy to holistically manage customer data along the entire product and customer lifecycle. This helps organizations deliver great customer experiences and accelerate growth.

As Michael reflects on the changes in digital marketing in the last decade, particularly with the current emphasis on privacy, he notes that companies that want to stay relevant and successful have to be willing to evolve and change with the times, even at the risk of contradicting themselves. He also feels that a looming recession will reveal organizations that do not have strong business fundamentals. Companies that wish to survive an economic downturn will need to focus on fundamentals and “build a real business.”

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On this episode, Cassandra Rose talks with Eveline Jaynes, Director of Talent Acquisition and Management at Laserfiche. Laserfiche provides intelligent content management and business process automation by using workflows, electronic forms, document management and analytics. Team members at Laserfiche empower customers and help them reimagine how technology can impact organizations and individuals.

Eveline reflects on changes in the workplace during and after the pandemic and on reasons employees leave companies. One of those reasons is a lack of opportunity for personal growth, and one way that Laserfiche encourages that growth is by paying for volunteer time off. Eveline says that “AQ (adaptability quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient) eat IQ for breakfast,” particularly in remote environments where people want to be seen and appreciated for their efforts.

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On this episode, Cassandra Rose speaks with Lee Kirby, Chairman & Co-Founder at Salute Mission Critical. Salute Mission Critical is a data center services company that deploys, manages and decommissions data center sites with high-quality results and military precision. Salute is dedicated to pulling from a labor pool of veterans — a disciplined, adaptable and trainable group.

Lee shares details of his 36 years in the military and explains why he was inspired to help veterans when he learned that unemployment for that group was over 25%. He also discusses what makes veterans attractive hires, the hidden jewels of the military community and how diversity in hiring works hand-in-hand with hiring veterans.

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On this episode, Cassandra Rose speaks with Inna Kuznetsova, CEO at ToolsGroup. ToolsGroup helps organizations achieve their target service levels while optimizing inventory. In today’s world organizations need to predict more behaviors, protect against surprises and perform more efficiently. ToolsGroup helps companies like Absolut, BP and Harley-Davidson do all this and more.

Inna shares with us her fascinating rise to the C-suite. She started her career training as a scientist before moving on to IBM where she received sales, management then executive training. Inna talks through the risks she’s taken at different stages of her career and explains why publishing your company values on a wall isn’t necessarily very helpful and she explains what she wants her leadership legacy to be.

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On this episode, Jordan talks with Savina Perez, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer at Hone. Hone is a market leader in offering remote live learning at scale to create behavior change, connection and personal development. 

Long before the pandemic forced remote culture on many companies, Hone was remote-first, both as a company and product, giving them access to talent from multiple sources. This remote-first thinking has continued to influence proactive moves to optimize content both across time zones and across cultures. Savina shares a tactic she’s used for finding some of her most trusted advisors.

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On this episode, Jordan talks with Ganesh Shankar, CEO and Co-Founder of RFPIO Inc., about start-ups and small businesses. RFPIO is the market leader in response management software to help create and manage sales proposals, and resolve inefficiencies rooted in decentralized and inaccessible content and knowledge.

Ganesh discusses the acquisitions of former competitors and how RFPIO is guided by its company values, including “see something, say something,” and “don’t mess with customers” (Ganesh doesn’t want RFPIO to be a problem for customers when they already have so much on their plates). These company values were not imposed from above but emerged organically as the team reflected on their work. 

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On this episode, Cassandra Rose speaks with Kendall Holbrook, CEO at Dev Technology Group. Dev Technology offers mission-critical applications and systems to governmental organizations such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and State, as well as the National Guard and others. They offer full-stack application development, biometrics and identity management, cloud and infrastructure optimization, IT and legacy modernization, and data management.

Kendall shares what it was like to be part of quadrupling the number of employees at the company, how working with the government is very much a long game and how Dev seeks to not just be a different type of government contractor but also one that puts their clients and employees first. She also shares how Dev crowdsourced their company values from their team members and how integral those values are to their daily decision-making processes.

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On this episode, Jordan speaks with Alex Frommeyer, Founder and CEO at Beam Benefits. Beam is all about modernizing employee benefits through its intuitive digital platform, self-service tools and AI-powered underwriting. That combination offers a simple experience for brokers, employers and members.

When Alex last appeared on The BragWorthy Culture, he discussed how Beam was setting itself apart from other companies in the space. On this episode, that narrative extends to talking about how culture develops in a growing company. Far from running from the phrase, “the culture has changed,” Alex insists that culture has to change as a company grows through different phases. Some of those phases include bad market conditions, but even there Alex sees great opportunities to build culture. “When something terrible in the business happens,” he notes, “there’s always a way to take advantage.”

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