Redefining Work Podcast

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In this episode, I sit down with iTech Media Chief Operating Officer Alan Cairns to discuss his career in HR and transition to COO.

In this episode, I sit down with SmartRecruiters Chief Diversity Officer Rocki Howard to discuss her new role and work inside and outside the company, their progress on becoming an antiracist company, and more.

In this episode, I sit down with TendLab Cofounder/CEO Amy Henderson and Cofounder/COO Kim Rohrer to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on women and caretakers in the workforce. You’ll learn Tendlab's origin story, what attracted Kim to their mission, how we begin to address the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on women and caretakers in the workforce, how companies can support their caretaking employees, and more.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Builtin cofounder & CEO to discuss the impact of the shift to remote on technical hiring. We discuss:

Builtin’s origin story

Cities are rising as tech talent hubs with the shift to distributed and remote work

How the shift to remote may impact diversity in tech

Does that data on the migration to Miami match the hype

How she works with their VP People and people team

What she’s excited about in building new ways of work

In this episode, I sit down with Peloton SVP, Global Head of People Shari Eaton to discuss her career path to HR and work at Peloton. You’ll learn what inspired her to move into HR, how she accounted for the pandemic’s impact on their employees and business operations, Peloton’s commitment to being an antiracist company, advice for HR leaders leading antiracist efforts, how she and her team are thinking about return to the workplace

In this episode, I sit down with Calm Chief People Officer Scott Domann to discuss his career in HR and work at Calm. You’ll learn:

How starting his career in strategy, metrics, and comms carried over to his HR career

What it’s like to have your new company acquired soon after joining, and advice for CPO’s navigating those waters

What drew Scott to Calm

How he practices self-care given the unique stress and pressures on a CPO in the wake of 2020

Details on Calm’s recently announced program to provide one year free of Calm for HR practitioners

Jobs! What Scott is hiring for on his team

In this episode, I sit down with Pagaya Chief People Officer and startup advisor Tami Rosen to discuss topics spanning from future/now of work, executive onboarding, being the “first” executive-level HR hire, and more. You’ll learn:

How HR has evolved over the last 10 years

Unique challenges of being an org's "first" HR leader

Onboarding tips for new CPO’s

What HR and people ops might look like if we built from the ground up today

Much more

In this episode, I sit down with Zenefits Chief People Officer Tracy Cote to discuss her career, the state of HR education, remote engagement, and more. You’ll learn:

What lured Tracy to HR

Why she was drawn to education

Her perspective on the state of education for HR practitioners

What it takes to scale a global business

How she thinks about employee engagement in our new remote/pandemic world

In this episode, I sit down with ServiceNow Head of Scaled Learning Thomas Igeme to discuss his career and thoughts personalizing at scale. Some of the areas we explore include:

How his career path took him from entrepreneur to researcher to HR

How his experience as a Researcher at Stanford prepare him to track trends and separate hype from substance

How his immersion in sales approaches at LinkedIn shaped his ability to articulate a business case and influence

Personalization at scale, and why it shouldn’t scare you

What allyship means today