How People Work

On this episode, Cassandra talks with Lucas Haldeman, Founder and CEO at SmartRent. SmartRent offers smart home automation to property managers and renters. Whether you develop, own or manage multifamily communities, SmartRent can help you control all the smart devices in your properties through an app.

Lucas talks about how SmartRent developed, as so often happens in entrepreneurial stories, from a solution they were searching for to something they decided to develop themselves. Lucas believes that entrepreneurialism, at its core, is naturally curious, and that curiosity leads to problem-solving. Lucas also explains how the decision to keep his team fully employed during the initial stages of the pandemic led to SmartRent’s being able to keep up with demand when restrictions were lifted. 

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On this episode, Cassandra speaks with Vishal Sunak, Co-Founder and CEO at LinkSquares. LinkSquares uses AI to help legal teams manage contracts. This gives customers what they need to write better contracts, analyze existing ones and execute them quickly. Using AI, companies save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars by eliminating manual contract processes and reducing the need for outside counsel.

Vishal begins with how the company got started: by asking companies what they needed and learning as they went, the LinkSquares team could pioneer a space that didn’t previously exist.

Vishal also shares some of the secret sauce that makes LinkSquares a great place to work, from having a thoughtful job application process, through onboarding that gives new team members access to subject matter experts from around the company, to a program that shouts out employees and a genuine openness to constructive feedback.

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On this episode, Jordan talks with Temy Mancusi-Ungaro, CEO at Reachdesk. Reachdesk helps companies deliver moments that matter throughout the entire customer lifecycle, at scale, globally. It does this through gifts and direct mail that build deeper connections with customers, prospects and employees at the click of a button.

Temy speaks about the power of physical gifts and how maximum impact can be achieved when those gifts are personalized. Gifting can be a tool in the “Great Recognition” that Temy wants to lead against the “Great Resignation.” Temy wants to create a culture of gifting at businesses, because ultimately that can lead to a mindset of generosity that lifts everyone. Reachdesk also cares about sustainability in gifting, and Temy shared some of the efforts the company is putting forward to make sure they are doing their part in that area.

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On this episode, Jordan speaks with Sheri Kelleher, Senior Vice President, People Success at Incorta. Incorta provides unified data and analytics software that makes it fast and simple to unlock the full potential of data from multiple complex source systems. It makes data instantly ready for analysis by eliminating traditional data transformation, modeling and aggregation steps.

Sheri talks about the changes the company has made since Covid, which include not just meeting people where they are, allowing for remote work, but also continuing what Incorta has always done, which is to focus on top talent and find out what makes them happy and engaged.

Sheri also walks listeners through Incorta’s recent process of simplifying core values, which included naming “love” as a company core value. That love isn’t just expressed in caring for team members, but for the greater community.

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On this episode, host Cassandra Rose speaks with Roisin O’Hagan, Vice President of Human Resources at Unosquare. Unosquare provides custom software development in the fields of healthcare, financial services and tech. During Roisin’s time at Unosquare, the company has grown from 400 to 800 team members.

Roisin shares what she loves about the culture at Unosquare: company town halls that offer transparency, ask-me-anythings with the CEO, revamping of core values and the whole company coming out of Covid stronger. Roisin also reminds listeners that the strength of the culture can form new team members. If that culture is weak, the new team members will form the culture, for better or worse.

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On this episode, Cassandra talks with Dr. Alex Gapud, Cultural Anthropologist at scarlettabbott, an employee engagement and communications consultancy that believes in purpose-driven and productive worlds of work. One way they help achieve this is to send someone like Dr. Gapud into an organization to obtain a map of the company culture. This is then used to help leadership see what’s working and what isn’t.

When Dr. Gapud goes into these companies, he likes to keep this quote in mind: “Numbers have faces and statistics have stories.” By gaining the trust of those working on the ground and sharing uncomfortable truths with those at the C-level, Dr. Gapud and his team can help make real breakthroughs in work environments.

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On this episode, host Cassandra Rose sits down with Matt Oxley, Co-Founder at Opal. Opal offers a personal marketing platform that helps its users see their work through the eyes of their customers. Opal works with brands like Airbnb, Microsoft and even NASA.

Matt shares some of the changes that Opal made post-pandemic, including deciding to permanently close some offices and make its teams fully remote. This decision ties together with an overall effort from Opal to give its employees both permission and support to find their own balance in this new world of work. Matt also shares the power of using in-person gatherings to build camaraderie and fellowship, noting that, “there’s only so much you can do on Zoom and Slack.”

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On this episode, Cassandra sits down with Brian Litvack, CEO and Co-Founder at LeagueApps. LeagueApps is the operating system and community for youth and local sports leaders. It provides them with the technology and professional network they need to succeed.

Brian talks about changes in culture and company objectives as a result of the pandemic and the move to a hybrid work environment. He also discusses the pros and cons of being a mission-driven company and why it’s important to make values front and center in an organization — every decision leadership takes will affect company culture and, ultimately, the company’s profitability and success.

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On this episode Jordan talks with Vadim Yasinovsky, Co-Founder & CPO at airSlate / PDFfiller.com. AirSlate helps users design, integrate, and automate document workflows using a single, no-code platform.

Among other astonishing facts on the ground, Vadim shares how he and his team evacuated airSlate’s workforce from Ukraine. Roughly 70% of the team was located there in February 2022. Those same team members continued to deliver at work, despite being bombed. Even more inspiringly, they helped deliver humanitarian aid during the hours they weren’t working, putting in long work shifts at night after delivering that aid.

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On this episode Jordan talks with Max Yoder, CEO & Co-Founder of Lessonly. Lessonly had been building training software to help teams learn, practice, and do better work until it was recently acquired by Seismic, another player in the same space. Max has also authored two books, including To See It, Be It, which is full of notes on business and life.

Max shares his philosophy on how companies can strive to work more thoughtfully. He wants more love and compassion in the workplace, meaning a willingness to be vulnerable and greater understanding when those around us make mistakes. But he cautions against empathy as its own end: while it can be useful, it wears down people’s batteries.

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