People Analytics

Linda White is an Executive level Human Resources Professional with expertise in developing human resource departments, including Benefits, Employee Relations, Compensation, Recruiting, Compliance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Training and Development, and Performance Management.

Linda specializes in creating and managing ethical and compliant HR Departments to guide organizations to grow and become an employer of choice. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of People Analytics:

• What Linda’s learned in her 25-year experience working in HR.
• What the future of HR looks like.
• What employees look for in an organization.
• The power of culture and how employees wants have changed.
• The importance of working in an organization that has similar values to yours.
• How people respond to being given autonomy in meetings.
• Simple ways managers can recognize their employees and make them feel special.
• How to build trust with your employees.
• Hopeful new trends emerging in HR.

Connect with Linda White:

• LinkedIn
• Email

Connect with the host:

• Lindsay Patton on LinkedIn
• Lindsay Patton by Email

Kaela Blanks is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategist at Wawa and is passionate about empowering people to thrive through their DE&I strategic initiatives.

Kaela specializes in helping organizations meet their strategic DE&I goals and create meaningful internal and external partnerships. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Peoples Analytics:

• Why Kaela decided to specialize in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Analytics.
• The importance of culture and how companies can create a holistic environment.
• How data is incorporated into setting up a company’s DEI structure and goals.
• The importance of using a tailored approach towards your DEI.
• The difference between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Common biases people face in hiring and the systems we can use to mitigate them.
• The benefits of diversifying within your organization and the doors it can open up.
• Why psychological safety is so important and how we can tell if our organization has it.
• How to recognize and become aware of unconscious bias and microaggressions. 

Resources:

• Wawa

Connecting with Kaela Blanks:

• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Instagram

Connecting with the hosts:

• Lindsey Patton - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaypatton

Lindsay Patton is a trained journalist turned content geek and the Principal at Blackstar Communications. Lindsay is passionate about storytelling and helping people, brands and organizations find their voice through digital strategy. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of People Analytics:

• Lindsay’s background in marketing and journalism.
• The internship programs Lindsay has launched.
• The best types of questions for HR professionals to ask in interviews.
• What ‘people analytics’ means and how this can help HR professionals.
• How using data can help you empower your employees.
• The importance of having a positive company culture.

Resources:

• Harvard Business Review
• SHRM

Connecting with the hosts:

• Sean Boyce on LinkedIn
• Lindsay Patton on LinkedIn

Dan Taylor is the Partner Manager at 15Five. He partners with HR Consultants to help companies improve performance, engagement, and retention. He is from Provo, Utah, and loves getting into the great outdoors. On this week’s episode of People Analytics, Dan and Sean discuss:

• What is continuous performance management?
• Why performance management should be prioritized
• 15Five’s work with Credit Karma
• How does the science behind continuous performance management work?
• 360 performance reviews, and why they should be incorporated

Resources:

• 15Five’s Website - https://www.15five.com/
• 15Five’s Partnerships - https://www.15five.com/getstarted/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=staffgeek
• 15Fives’ Best Self - https://www.15five.com/best-self-review/

Connecting with Dan:

• Connect with Dan via email at [email protected]

Stephanie Hammerwold is the Director of Human Resources at Arcules, a tech startup that has developed a cloud-based solution for video data management. Stephanie's HR career spans the grocery, manufacturing, warehousing and tech industries. She spends her spare time running an all-volunteer nonprofit that helps formerly incarcerated people get back to work and advocates for fair chance hiring. On this episode of People Analytics, Sean and Stephanie discuss: 

• What it means to hire for culture fit
• Giving the candidate an opportunity to evaluate your culture as part of the hiring process
• Matching candidates with team members for the interview process
• Best practices for match candidates with existing team members
• Why hiring for culture can make your company more attractive to candidates
• How Arcules defines its culture and measures it overtime
• The cultural values the are important for success at Arcules
• How Arcules uses assessments to level up their hiring effort
• Defining a profile with assessment tools that can level up your hiring effort
• What’s next for the people analytics tools for Arcules

Resources:

• Arcules Blog: https://blog.arcules.com/workplaceculture
• DevPro Journal: https://www.devprojournal.com/business-operations/leadership/how-2020-changed-our-company-culture/
• Stephanie's Nonprofit: https://www.prcsca.org/

Connecting with Stephanie: 

• Connect with Stephanie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-hammerwold-38a8791b/

Dan is currently the Head of People Operations for Aurora Solar, a platform focused on enabling a clean energy future for all. When he joined in early 2019, they were 45 employees primarily in San Francisco and have now grown to more than 100 team members across the United States. He believes strongly in taking an open source approach to People Operations by actively sharing and building useful tools for other HR professionals. On this episode of the People Analytics podcast, Dan and Sean cover

• How the Aurora hiring strategy has changed based on the market conditions
• What influenced Aurora to rethink their strategy around the decentralized team
• How to measure the effectiveness of your decentralized hiring strategy
• The specific advantages of leveraging a distributed hiring strategy
• Language to include in a job description to capture the attention of great candidates everywhere
• How to rethink your HR tech stack to enable a successful transition in hiring strategy

Resources: 

• Notion - www.notion.so/
• Dan's Website - https://dansmolkin.com/
• Dan's Compiled Resources - dansmolkin.com/go/resources
• Coda - https://coda.io/welcome
• Almanac - https://almanac.io/home
• Holloway Guides - https://www.holloway.com/

Connecting with Dan:

• Connect with Dan on his website - dansmolkin.com

Charlie Keinath has worked for some of NYC's most preeminent startups including Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Intersection and now Beeswax. With over 10 years in the recruiting space, he's mostly focused on Engineering, Data and Product and never shies away from those hard to fill positions. When it comes to recruiting he has both led and managed teams to drive hiring and come up with new unique and outside of the box methodologies to attract and retain talent in an ever-evolving startup ecosystem. He's always looking to chat, whether it's about the latest/greatest in tech or just general career advice. On this episode, Sean and Charlie discuss

• "If You’re Offered a Seat on a Rocket Ship, You Don’t Ask What Seat. You Just Get On.” - Marissa Mayer, Ex-CEO Yahoo
• Why title matters less in a young growing startup environment
• How to make your company’s story exciting for candidates
• Positioning your company’s value proposition for candidates
• Marketing the opportunity effectively to your prospective candidates
• How the history of your industry can help engage candidates

Connecting with Charlie:

• Connect with Charlie over LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleskeinath/
• Follow Charlie on Twitter - https://twitter.com/charliek212?lang=en

Andrew Bernstein who is the Talent Acquisition Coordinator at Propeller. He is a people and operations professional who has worked in the life science space as well as in the hardware and software industry within drone mapping. He cares about people, loves helping startup organizations succeed, and loves his wife and 5 pets. Another great passion Andrew has is his love of sports, whether it be watching his Boston sports teams, playing tennis and pickleball competitively, or analyzing individual players and strategy in football, baseball and basketball. Topics that Sean and Andrew cover on this weeks episode of the People Analytics podcast include 

• Defining consultative and how it relates to recruiting 
• Why Andrew feels Propeller hasn’t lost a single member of the team under his tenure
• What a "top grade" interview is and why it matters
• Why you should prioritize a positive candidate experience in your hiring process
• How platforms like Glassdoor affect investing in the candidate experience 
• What you can start doing today to improve your company’s candidate experience

Resources: 

• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26329.Emotional_Intelligence
• Beartown by Frederik Backman - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413128-beartown
• First Round Capital - https://firstround.com/
• First Round Article on Diversity and Inclusion - https://firstround.com/review/eight-ways-to-make-your-dandi-efforts-less-talk-and-more-walk/

Connecting with Andrew 

• Connect with Andrew on his cell at 310-502-4098
• Connect with Andrew over Email at [email protected]

Elliot Epstein is the Head of People at Galileo.  He has dedicated his career to building and scaling People functions in mission-driven organizations.  He has worked in people, culture, and organizational development roles across different sectors.  He lives in Manhattan with his husband, daughter, and rescue dog. On this week's People Analytics, Sean and Elliot cover

• Defining and building a "feedback driven culture"
• Why you should consider when building a user manual for your team members
• Ask yourself, “What can I do 10% better?
• Creating a structure that eliminates bias

Resources: 

• Anti-racism must reads - https://www.edgilityconsulting.com/11-books-on-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-that-are-actually-worth-reading/
• How to Love Criticism with Adam Grant - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-love-criticism/id1346314086?i=1000404159792 
• LifeLabs - https://lifelabslearning.com/

Connecting with Elliot

• Connect with Elliot on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliotrepstein/

Adrienne Barnard is the SVP of People Operations at AdmitHub - an AI powered Chatbot that through powerful nudges is on a mission to help learners take the next steps towards a more fulfilling life. Adrienne has been in HR/People Operations her entire career and has been able to build out People Operations and teams at her last two roles. She's passionate about the impact that a partnership approach to People Ops can have on the organization and its human resources.  Outside of work Adrienne lives in the 'burbs with her entrepreneurial husband (check out podknife.com) and her 9 and 5 year old kids who love basketball, disc golf, barbies and snacks. On this episode of the People Analytics podcast, Sean and Adrienne discuss:

• The HR trend of building the function out sooner
• The value generated for an organization that invests approximately in HR
• When to think about building our your HR function
• Building HR around the needs of your organization
• Hiring an HR professional with leadership qualities to adapt through change
• Making your next HR hire after implementing the function
• HR business partner vs HR generalist vs HR specialist
• Putting the right framework in place to avoid getting stuck and feeling overwhelmed
• How to build trust along the way of developing the HR function

Resources: 

• Resources for Humans Slack Group from Lattice - https://lattice.com/community/rfh?utm_source=slack&utm_medium=other&utm_campaign=rfh-community-page&utm_channel=
• LifeLabs - https://lifelabslearning.com/individuals/
• LifeLabs Community - https://share.hsforms.com/12GqKBY1lQ7mosBWOmF-nzQ2pice?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=85178701&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--8XDtxzZ5RKR3IKdg8XrSetKVezdwQCFEIgM2SQaUqZ6RGK5RnKa1T2ySF5Rc3ivANGqNEqL7DOvtL8MhXEDdxlZlcYhgU7Di2yBerGqUoBZVSOwo&_hsmi=85178701
• Cy Wakeman Podcast - https://www.realitybasedleadership.com/
• Attends webinars, read white papers, understand what other companies are doing

Connecting with Adrienne: 

• Connect with Adrienne over Email - Adrienne@admithub
• Connect with Adrienne on LinkedIn -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienne-barnard-a82aab1/