HR Examiner Podcasts with John Sumser

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30 AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Henry Vasquez leverages his entrepreneurial spirit and more than 10 years of experience in software development to lead product initiatives around employee skills and capabilities at Cornerstone. As Principal Product Manager for Cornerstone’s Performance and Careers solutions, Henry is responsible for building solutions to enhance the employee lifecycle. Henry is most passionate about creating intuitive platforms that help people be extraordinary at work. Prior to joining Cornerstone, he worked at SpaceX as the Product Manager of Knowledge Management and successfully founded and sold his own company.

Ike Bennion is a seasoned marketing executive with an extensive background in talent management and learning. As the Principal Product marketing Manager at Cornerstone Ondemand, he drives new product innovation and market strategy for their Learning solutions. He uses his background in other parts of human capital management, including performance, succession, content, recruiting, skills, AI and blockchain, to thread innovation across the career lifecycle and build platforms that create a more empathetic workplace. Before coming to Cornerstone, Ike was a driver of change in the industry at HireVue and Bridge by Instructure.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Kenneth Matos, Ph.D. is Director of People Science, Customer at Culture Amp. He leads a global team of psychologists and researchers who provide clients with actionable advice on collecting, understanding, and acting on employee feedback through evidence-based methodologies. Dr. Matos educates and coaches the Culture Amp community and speaks to mainstream media on the strategic impact of emerging trends in workplace culture and employee experience.

Prior to Culture Amp, Dr. Matos provided technical and strategic leadership on a wide range of workforce research and consulting projects. His research covers issues of diversity and inclusion, employee wellbeing, leadership, and organizational culture. He completed his undergraduate work in psychology at Amherst College, received his master’s in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and earned his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology at George Washington University.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

David Karandish is Founder & CEO of Capacity – an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Capacity’s secure, AI-native support automation platform helps teams do their best work.

Prior to starting Capacity, David was the CEO of Answers Corp. He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for north of $900m.

David lives in St. Louis with his wife, Erin and four kids. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing ukulele.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Ben Waber, PhD, is the president and co-founder of Humanyze, a workplace analytics company. The Humanyze AI platform and one of a kind Humanyze Organizational Health Score provide the world’s most comprehensive objective measurement of the workday and the group collaboration behaviors that lead to an effective and healthy organization. Our SaaS-based analytics, benchmarks, and indicators are used by enterprises to inform and accelerate their Operational, HR, Workplace, and Digital Transformation initiatives. He is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, previously worked as a senior researcher at Harvard Business School, and received his Ph.D. in organizational science from MIT for his work with Alex “Sandy” Pentland’s Human Dynamics group. Waber’s work has been featured in major media outlets such as HBR, Wired, The Economist, and NPR. He has consulted for industry leaders such as LG, McKinsey & Company, and Gartner on technology trends, social networks, and organizational design. His book, People Analytics, was published by the Financial Times Press in 2013.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30M Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.