In this episode of HR Heretics, Kelli and Nolan interview Arnnon Geshuri, Chief People Officer at Snowflake and 8-year Tesla veteran, about building HR’s strategic authority through data analytics, his automate-augment-human AI framework, and why he recruits economists and data scientists alongside traditional HR professionals.

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Arnnon: linkedin.com/in/arnnongeshuri

Nolan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolan-church/

Kelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellidragovich/

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Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/en/

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TIMESTAMPS:

(0:00) Intro

(1:12) Three Key Lessons from Working with Elon Musk at Tesla

(3:36) Why Snowflake: Reinventing the People Function

(4:33) The Three-Pronged AI Framework: Automate, Augment, Human-Only

(12:02) Sponsor: Metaview

(19:45) Data Analytics as the Backbone of HR

(24:00) Building the Winning HR Team Portfolio

(27:08) Speed Through Imperfection: Fast Pilots and Iteration

(29:00) Wrap

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