PeopleStar Podcast

Let’s bring someone with great experience in leadership and management… from another industry!

Tune in to this great episode about project culture, crisis management, and leadership!

What do forgiveness and good gossip mean in the workplace?

The workplace has definitely changed for women, now it’s our time to grab the bull by the horns!

In this episode of the PeopleStar Podcast, we have a delightful conversation with an incredibly courageous woman in her career, the one and only Rawan Aldobai. Rawan is the owner of a consulting company that helps others, especially women, bring success and happiness to something that intrinsically affects every aspect of our lives: our careers. She jumped off the certainty and predictability train to find happiness and along the way, discovered how helping other women was something she wanted to keep doing. Success is never a straight line but rather a bumpy ride full of adventures.

We cannot stress enough how important it is to have a powerful and courageous figure in leadership; please tune in to this incredible episode about showing women their true potential.

Sometimes accidents lead to new and exciting roads where growth awaits you.

Nettie Nitzberg ended up in entrepreneurship out of the blue, but she found there the space to challenge herself and grow both professionally and personally. After some rough times of not getting a stable job, Nettie adventured into consulting and has worked in the Learning and Development field for the past 14 years building cultures of belonging through DE&I initiatives. Crisis management, especially around DEI and belonging topics is something Nettie does daily for organizations, knowing the importance of having a stance to increase employee engagement and well-being. Diversity has a lot of invisible dimensions, most of the time they aren’t exposed in plain sight.

Listen to this wonderful conversation about diversity, equity, inclusion, and a sense of belonging!

Sometimes life unfolds in very mysterious ways, always leading us to where we need to be.

Theresa Forgét has had so many life experiences that brought her to be a top-notch HR leader in the healthcare industry. She ended up as the Executive Director of Human Resources at Howard County General Hospital after working in several hospital systems. She understood the importance of building up a strong team after an acquisition, community-centered thinking, and learning from the get-go. If you’re destined to be in a specific industry, life will keep bringing you back to it one way or another, just like Theresa’s journey demonstrates.

This episode is an inspirational masterclass about people management but ultimately, about how to follow a passion through thick and thin.

Many companies want to transform today, but what does that mean?

We have the honor of discussing this topic with Corinne Murray, founder and chief strategist of Agate Studio and consultant for many organizations. The workplace has suffered one of the most significant impacts ever during the COVID pandemic and in the last three years, and they use the return-to-the-office example to explain how and when a company sees the need to transform. Corinne states that employees are consumers of the company brand since they are immersed in it all week long. She also shares a little bit of her philosophy at Agate and finally, she leaves with one thought: what would happen if your company stays in beta all the time?

Tune in to this wonderful episode about growth and transformation.

We need to talk about data and how it affects and gives insights into HR.

This week’s guest is our very own Rebeca Kling, part of our team as product manager for Insights at TrakStar! HR’s role has changed significantly during the past decade, and implementing data is now a crucial part of our roles for the organization's well-being. Through dashboards, the Insights team is analyzing trends, key ratios, and data points, and foreshadowing trends so that customers can make better business decisions. Leaders are now incredibly interested in understanding their retention rates and what they are doing right and wrong with their key performers. Rebeca also shares some examples from current customers, how having equitable applications of employment standards is beneficial for the organization, and benchmarking!

Tune in to this incredible episode about data implementation in HR!

Let’s talk about architecture and employee compensation within a company!

Tune in to this incredible conversation about compensation models with an amazing young man!

How do you transform a company and show them the way to success?

This is what this week’s guest has been down to for the last 25 years, we have the honor of having Bill Goodwin over on the show. He was most recently the CEO of MeMD, which got acquired by Walmart Health. Bill shares how he joins companies, gets them to a healthy growth rate, and works on the culture instead of the metrics. Culture is everything, it needs to be aligned with where the company wants to go, and where it sees itself in the future. He reflects on leadership teams, conflicts, and ways you and your organization can auto-assess and take action.

Tune in to this wonderful episode about our four core topics: people, culture, routines, and architecture!

To lead others, one must first learn how to lead oneself.