“If you look at spend per employee, it’s a high percentage that goes toward benefits. If you survey the typical employee, they have no idea what’s available or how to make the most of it.” Debbie talks with Dani Pascarella, Founder of OneEleven Financial Wellness, about the trending employee perk of 2023 and how to create financial wellness within your business that matters to your employees.

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“When we are dealing in code numbers, statistics, it’s easier to train a model to understand that because it’s essentially just advanced coding.”

“There maybe times when we don’t actually have humans involved in our research deliverables.”

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“The cohort-based blended learning journeys at scale.” Debbie talks with Shreyasi Singh, CEO of Harappa, about her experience of coming to America from India and ambitiously scaling a new ed tech company. 

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“When you jailbreak a degree, what we actually are saying is, all skills and experiences you have throughout your career should be recognized irrespective of the method you learn from.” Debbie talks with Deeps Ramanathan, CMO at Degreed, about how to interview the best talent for your company and the big misses most organizations don’t realize they are making.

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Quote: “Every business is different, but what is universally true is that the way to leverage and deal with the situation and this evolution is through your people. Whether it’s in your team or your department or your business as a whole.”

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“I do think that you need to be well planned, because I think if you are not well planned, not only for what you need to handover but for what can potentially happen when you’re not around, it might turn out as well as it did.” Debbie talks with San-Marie Barnard, Executive Search Creative, about how she planned for and took an extensive sabbatical last year and why it was so important for her professional and personal development.

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“AI is the worst it'll ever get right now.” Debbie talks with Denis Nikolaev about ed tech investments in the aftermath of the pandemic and what roles AI can responsibly play in your organization.

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“People who are doing an accelerated boot camp of sorts or training program, have at least some basic fundamentals around how to learn, the level of discipline that it takes of analytical thinking, or just the basic skills one needs to actually complete anything else.

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“We have a principle called 180/100 rule, and what we say with this is that the pay remains the same but we aim to reduce work time by 80%.”

“Some of the most successful models are when you have a fully flexible model that allows your people to reduce work time in a meaningful way but in a way that suits them.”

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