Mikaela Kiner spent 15 years as an HR leader at Seattle heavy-hitters such as Microsoft, Starbuck, and Amazon before venturing out on her own to start uniquelyHR – providing flexible HR for fast growing companies –  in 2015.

As an HR professional, Mikaela has unique insight into the way companies support employees in integrating work and life. As an entrepreneur, she has practical tips for aligning your work with your personal priorities.

We talked about...

• The surprising statistic about how much sleep senior leaders actually get
• What happened on Mikaela’s team at Microsoft when they scored high on work-life balance measures (and it wasn’t good!)
• What it means to be a ‘happy workaholic’

• How Mikaela designed her business to be in alignment with her personal priorities – and the hard choices she had to make to do it
• Mikaela’s ‘accidental morning routine’ – and how it changed the way she moves through her days