The Hennessy Report

Dave interviews Josh Bersin, Founder and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company and author of "Irresistible."

Josh describes his unique path to become an industry analyst, researcher, educator, and technology analyst covering all aspects of corporate HR, training, talent management, recruiting, leadership, and workplace technology.

An innovative thinker, Josh shares his insight on the future of AI in HR, best practices during layoffs, upskilling, the danger of job descriptions, new models of performance management, people sustainability, and why companies should focus on purpose to remain productive.

This is an insightful episode of The Hennessy Report you won't want to miss!

Dave is reunited with Lisa Reilly, the CPO at PTC, having known each other for more than 20 years. Rob Byron, Dave's colleague from Keystone Partners, also joins this episode of The Hennessy Report.

Lisa shares her journey from falling into HR and moving from a global HR business partner role to leading the function as a CPO. She even reminisces on her time working as a consultant for us, where she says she learned the ultimate measure of success comes from seeing your work through your customer's eyes.

PTC is a global software company that enables industrial companies to "use the digital to transform the physical."

She describes the "play together" culture at PTC and their "Power to Create" mentality, all guided by their 5 core values.

This is a lively, engaging episode you won't want to miss!

Dave is joined by colleague Brenda Stanton and Paul McKinlay, VP of Communications & Remote Working at Cimpress & Vista.

Paul discusses their revolutionary rise to remote work and how they encourage employees to "live their best possible experience while working and achieving their best possible work" and how they began this ongoing transition.

He also covers their dedication to small businesses, managing equity between remote and manufacturing employees, and the inefficiencies that arise from companies who are resisting or only committing halfway to remote work.

Paul melds his passion for genuine employee experience with his expertise and professional advice in this not-to-be-missed episode!

Dave is joined by Kelly Schick, the CPO at C4 Therapeutics, Inc. on this episode of The Hennessy Report.

Kelly is an empathetic, business-minded speaker excited to share C4's mission as a clinical stage biotech creating a new generation of medicine they hope will transform patients' lives.

There are so many innovative methods and programs Kelly and her team have implemented to gain employees' trust and promote wellness, a passion of hers.

She also describes the benefits Kim Scott's radical candor has had on her professional life, and how she is incorporating it into C4's culture.

You won't want to miss this episode!

Dave and Mara Neufeld Rivera, CHRO, CPO, and Head of People & Culture at Chroma Technology Corp., recorded this episode of The Hennessy Report in front of a live audience at ADP's HR Conference in late 2022.

There are few company structures as unique as Chroma, being 100% employee owned with even distributed profit sharing. Hear Mara describe the inspiring story on how Chroma was founded, and how they have stayed true to their ideals.

Mara also shares the distinct differences, successes, and questions that arise in such a rare environment. Who protects the culture between HR and their board comprised of employees? How do you decide on talent competencies when hiring in teams?

Mara offers book recommendations such as: Brené Brown's "Atlas of the Heart," saying, "if you love language and communication, and emotion, you’ve got to read this book;"

"Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" on making predictions about the future by Yuval Noah Harari, the author of "Sapien’s" and a professor in Israel;

and "Immune" by Philipp Dettmer.

You won't want to miss this episode of The Hennessy Report!

Dave was joined by Rich Sheridan, CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations, Speaker, and Author of "Chief Joy Officer" and "Joy, Inc." at the NEHRA 2022 Conference in this live edition of The Hennessy Report.

Rich describes the truly unique culture at Menlo, with leaders traveling from around the world to tour their workspace and hear the team's stories.

Whether it's working in teams of two on one computer, managing and conducting performance reviews with no "managers" but as a group, or pitting candidates towards each other rather than against - judged on how they support their rival - Rich paints a culture of true joy.

You don't want to miss this unique episode of The Hennessy Report. Tune in now!

Dave is joined by Nakesha Lopez, CHRO and interim Chief Diversity Officer at Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest not for profit healthcare provider in Texas.

Nakesha speaks passionately about their investment into mental health, wellbeing, coaching, and leadership development programs and the part they have played in letting employees know they are supported.

She covers her recent focus on metrics to raise retention, vacancy rates, and engagement scores as well as her conviction that everyone is a DEIB leader, and thus must be integrated in our every day. Her team's DEIB priority hones in on active listening, creating a culture of inclusion, and closing gaps in care.

Nakesha also goes into detail on how her team was able to tackle the industry agnostic talent acquisition crisis, with job openings climbing from 2,700 to 6,000 in a one year span.

You will love this episode of The Hennessy Report.

Dave is joined by Fred Skinner, the CHRO at EVERSANA, for this episode of The Hennessy Report. He is also joined by Chad Brantner, a Keystone colleague and childhood friend of Fred from the small town of Sycamore, Illinois.

Fred describes the "ridiculously awesome" culture at EVERSANA and their mission to revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry for both patients and providers.

With 8,000+ employees, Fred says they've "cracked the code" on how to maintain culture while remaining inquisitive by leading with trust. He credits CEO Jim Lang for understanding the weight culture holds on a company and supporting HR initiatives.

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Dave is joined by the Head of Research, People + Performance at the ADP Research Institute, NYT Best-Selling Author, and Founder of the Strengths Revolution, Marcus Buckingham.

Marcus shares his unique perspective on what's right and what's wrong with HR based on positive psychology — studying what's right with people.

Listen to see if your perceptions will shift after Marcus' view on the immorality of high vs. low potentials, HR's bad data stemming from performance discussions/ratings, and rethinking why your company deserves the best people.

Marcus also discusses the 15 question "thermometer" he and his team built that yielded insights into the necessity of HR on talent retention.

Listen to the end to learn a surprising fact about Marcus' journey to becoming the accomplished speaker he is today.

Dave is joined by Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab, a DevOps company and first all-remote organization to go public.

Darren explains that his role sits at the nexus of people operations and strategic communications, but that it's such a new concept, it actually exists in different departments from company to company.

CNBC has called Darren “the oracle of remote work” and we learn some of his predictions for the "future of work" such as "meeting hygiene," a focus on asynchronous work, and, of course, increased remote work.

Darren is truly an expert in organizational design and shaping remote teams. You will truly take away actionable plans and thought provoking perspectives from this episode.

As Darren says, the most dangerous words of business are, "we’ve always done it that way...”