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- #13 - Marie Toby | Director of Community Enablement | Oyster
About the guest
Marie is a strategic and creative thinker who excels in leadership, coaching, and advisory roles. She is known for being generous and hands-on when it comes to managing people. Marie is passionate about shaping the future of work and making a positive impact on people's lives and her expertise and dedication make her a highly valuable leader in driving positive change and shaping the future of work.Shownotes
00:00 - Intro01:43 - US Trip, Oyster & Emotions13:49 - Shoutouts16:32 - Growth phases from 120 - 650 people org20:00 - Performance management30:25 - Career, product launch learnings & remote vs hybrid55:00 - Building remote culture & recommendationsLinks
Marie Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-bosseur/Thomas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/
Thomas e-mail: [email protected]pplwise: https://pplwise.com/1 hr 6 min - #12 - Catharina Riedl | COO & Head of Cloud Transformation SAP Germany
About the guest
Catharina Riedl, the COO of SAP Germany, is in charge of the sales and service organization that includes ~2500 people. Catharina is a humble and creative individual who loves exploring new ideas and approaches and values transparency, honesty, and being a dependable team player. Catharina encourages having fun and embracing everyone around her to create a positive change within the organization and her passion is designing, creating, and building things.Shownotes
00:00 - Intro03:17 - Venice Beach, conflict management & product engineering17:51 - Management, SAP & mentoring30:00 - Career disappointments, management track & feedback43:00 - Youngest COO, General Manager, managing 7 - 2.500 people50:18 - Sales & Service organization59:50 - Hiring, Growth Mindset & RecommentationsLinks
Catharina Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catharinariedl/Thomas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/
Thomas e-mail: [email protected]pplwise: https://pplwise.com/1 hr 9 min - #11 - Aki Friedrich | Director Learning Experience Superside
About the guest
Aki is a talent development expert who is passionate about creating learning cultures within modern, busy work environments. He believes in confronting hard truths such as disengagement and overconfidence while embracing the potential of workplace learning to develop and retain talent. Aki strives to drive initiatives prioritizing impact over glamour and creating a culture of psychological safety combined with high ambitions.Shownotes
00:00 - Intro00:55 - Aki, music & Apple13:10 - Meditation, impulsive control, first-time manager22:45 - Maintaining culture during growth stages, career development35:05 - Individual & group learning, learning ROI, measuring success41:22 - Effectiveness of leaders47:40 - Remote-only learning & development, SupersideBook recommendation:
https://www.amazon.com/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-Life/dp/0385480016Profiles:
Thomas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/pplwise: https://pplwise.com/Aki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akifriedrich/
54 min - #10 - Amiel Barrimond | Director Rewards | People Analytics | Payroll | Tech | Autodoc
Amiel Barrimond is a Total Rewards professional who is passionate about creating solutions and problem-solving within the Rewards arena. With hands-on experience in all aspects of reward design and management, Amiel believes that the reward function should be robust and agile, yet flexible enough to move with changes in the business and regulatory environment.
Amiel's expertise includes executive and general compensation, incentive design, policy, structure and governance, benefits, performance management, job evaluation, career frameworks, and pay range design.
Shownotes
00:00:00 - Intro & Summary00:02:00 - Early career, banking & Amiel00:15:20 - Industry, affordability & measuring compensation00:20:10 - 4 P’s of compensation00:29:00 - Incentive & compensation00:41:03 - Market benchmarking, reward function00:56:00 - Compensation philosophies01:06:10 - Next stepsAmiel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amiel-barrimond/
pplwise website: https://pplwise.com/Thomas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/1 hr 14 min - #9 - Virgile Raingeard | Founder & CEO of Figures
About the guest
Virgile is the founder of Figures - the first product allowing start-ups and scale-ups to know if their compensation philosophy is fair. He has a diverse background of studying computer science and working as an engineer as well as did a master's in human resources and worked as an HR Director and compensation specialist.Shownotes
00:00 - Intro01:25 - Early career05:00 - HR Business Partnering for Tech20:44 - Idea of Figures27:35 - Compensation & Performance33:00 - Designing a compensation philosophy & Fair Pay40:00 - Employee Stock Options, Virtual Shares & Equity Compensation47:00 - Compensation data sourcing52:00 - Salary equality, increases & your market valueLinks
Virgile Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vraingeard/figures: https://figures.hr/Thomas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/
pplwise: https://pplwise.com/59 min - #8 - Daniel Vonier | Leadership & Org-Dev Consultant Ex-SAP | Siemens | TIER
Daniel is a proven expert on the future of work, an independent "leadership developer" and (HR) organizational consultant, systemic coach, author, and guest lecturer at various universities.
Through his exposed and global leadership roles at Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, he brings in-depth experience and broad expertise in Leadership & Talent Development, Organizational Development, and Culture Change from some of the most prominent Dax corporations.
He is the author of several publications and last year released his new book "Unlearning Hierarchy" - A Journey into Self-Organization.
His mission: to make work, leadership, and organizations more present- and future-ready through his contribution as a consultant, org developer, facilitator, and keynote speaker - for him, that means, more adaptive, effective, and meaningful
Shownotes
00:00 - Intro01:34 - Early career, shaping childhood, shaping moments13:10 - North star, alignment of organisations19:45 - Strategy, competencies, and organisational effectiveness24:50 - Maturity of organisations30:15 - Ambidextrous organisation & compensation33:40 - Unlearn Hierarchy, adaptability, impact, meaningfulness37:15 - Quality of life, habits, and health workplace index45:30 - Burnout, Self-care, trust & emotions55:23 - Patterns of corporates, startups, and traditional companiesLinks
Daniel Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielvonier/details/experience/Daniel's new venture: https://www.unlearning-hierarchy.de/Daniels book: https://www.amazon.de/Unlearning-Hierarchy-Daniel-Vonier/dp/3800666421/ref=asc_df_3800666421/?tag=googshopde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=526621203254&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4973905034678532093&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061132&hvtargid=pla-1323309586063&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
Thomas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/
pplwise: https://pplwise.com/1 hr 5 min - #7 - Katerina Cerveny | Head of Talent Acquisition Ex-Adobe | Tesla | UiPath
In this podcast, we'll explore the recruitment at tech giants with Katerina Cerveny, a recruitment professional with extensive experience from Tesla, UiPath, and Adobe. Katerina has worked with a variety of clients, from startups to global brands, and has developed effective recruitment strategies for her clients. Tune in to learn from Katerina's expertise in recruitment and her experiences working with some of the biggest names in the tech industry.
Shownotes
00:00:00 - Intro00:02:00 - Inspiration and fascination for headhunting00:13:00 - Internet crisis and current tech shock00:17:00 - Working at tech companies00:29:24 - Adobe's outstanding environment00:33:30 - Recruitment patterns to not nail recruitment & internal mobility00:43:10 - Biases, leadership & recruitment mistakes00:57:57 - Cost of hiring delays and hiring mistakesLinks
Katerina Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katerina-cerveny-319411/Thomas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/pplwise: https://pplwise.com/1 hr 1 min - #6 - Anna Ott | VP People | HV Capital | Advisory Board Member | Kienbaum
Anna Ott is VP People and responsible for ESG initiatives at HV Capital, one of the leading VC funds in Europe. She has more than two decades of experience in HR, focussing on start-ups. She's worked with venture builders, incubators, and venture capitalists' portfolios.
Before HV Capital, Anna worked as an independent consultant. Her clients spanned corporates, SMBs and start-ups. She also advised various European HR Tech start-ups.
Anna is part of Capital Magazine's "Top 40 under 40". She is also acknowledged as an "HR Influencer" by various leading magazines in this space.
Shownotes
00:00:00 - Intro00:01:55 - Annas start00:05:50 - First career layoffs00:08:22 - HR Consultancy and most shaping boss00:11:00 - First learnings & failures00:12:45 - Management00:24:19 - Berlin, 2010 and onwards00:35:35 - Patterns of successful companies and founders00:43:40 - Advisory, Beirat and Freelancing00:54:55 - HV Capital, Diversity01:12:44 - Final wordsLinks
Anna Ott Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaott/HV Capital: https://www.hvcapital.com/Thomas Kohler Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/
pplwise: https://pplwise.com/Book recommendations:
The making of a manager: https://www.amazon.de/Making-Manager-Everyone-Looks-English-ebook/dp/B07DXGGDCQ/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=71834175820&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6fafBhC1ARIsAIJjL8mC8wHV6AGX5nHdCbCNKybdV-84ecG6tuvvGSbLdrpfs7haQi5YmMoaAmsUEALw_wcB&hvadid=352993768977&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9061133&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=4711197719894779108&hvtargid=kwd-662830358106&hydadcr=24065_1739927&keywords=the+making+of+a+manager+julie+zhuo&qid=1677615874&sr=8-1The do library: https://thedobook.co/products/complete-11-book-bundle
The atlas of the heart: https://www.amazon.de/Atlas-Heart-Meaningful-Connection-Experience-ebook/dp/B09DTJM18Q/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=74762240127&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6fafBhC1ARIsAIJjL8n1WbWgcHOIXhsVQ-3l0A7sErXw6o9U9KZkXz2oTEfpoBX0EUjrUIoaArzbEALw_wcB&hvadid=353035642247&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9061133&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=18265168665292491299&hvtargid=kwd-1538841756413&hydadcr=5934_1747181&keywords=the+atlas+of+the+heart+brene+brown&qid=1677615977&sr=8-1
1 hr 15 min - #5 - Martina Ruiß | Ex-Director of Talent @Personio | Ex-McKinsey
At McKinsey, Martina was responsible for hiring new consultants into their German and Austrian offices with a focus on diversity. She also spent time in Dubai improving the Middle East hiring processes and attracting top talent from UK and US universities into all EMEA offices. In her final two years at McKinsey, Martina co-managed all German/Austrian hiring efforts.
In 2018, she joined Personio as their Head of HR and later as Director of Talent. Under her leadership, the company grew from 50 to 1,400 employees in just 4 years. Martina understands the challenges that come with hyper-growth and is experienced in maintaining a high hiring bar.
Shownotes
00:00:00 Intro & Summary00:04:18 Internal mobility00:07:30 Structured evaluation00:14:00 Learnings from McKinsey00:20:20 Start at Personio00:31:15 Build the team before you need it00:36:25 Attrition00:44:17 Evaluating candidates at Mckinsey vs Personio00:47:58 Headcount Planning00:56:20 Leaving Personio & travel break01:05:00 Next step and current focusLinks
Linkedin Martina Ruiß: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-ruiss/Linkedin Thomas Kohler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/Website, pplwise: https://pplwise.com/Website, Podcast: https://pplwise.com/podcast/
1 hr 9 min - #4 - Stefan Ries | Ex-CHRO SAP | HR Punk
About the guest
Stefan Ries is a highly experienced Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Labor Relations Director. He served in these roles at SAP SE and was a member of the Executive Board with global responsibility for HR.With a background in executive roles at companies like Microsoft, Compaq, SAP, and Egon Zehnder International, Stefan is also passionate about sports, particularly German football, tennis, and European Handball.
These days, he enjoys supporting HR tech startups as a business angel and is an external advisor for McKinsey on digital transformation projects.
Shownotes:
00:00:00 Intro & Summary00:02:25 Stefan’s start in Tech in the 90s00:05:40 IBM’s focus on Hardware and the early vision of Microsoft00:07:40 Microsofts expansion strategy00:11:37 HP & first manager experience00:14:45 Analogies from handball teams00:20:15 Team size & biggest gap in skillsets00:28:30 Crossfunctional teams & People product development00:31:30 Old school HR structure, static00:35:30 Scaling SAP from 40.000 to +100.000 people00:40:00 From on-premise to cloud00:45:00 SAP founders, Sr. Executives and Eghon Zehnder00:57:50 Mergers & Acquisitions01:04:40 Advisory & HR Tech Angel investmentsLinks:
Linkedin Stefan Ries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riesstefanBook recommendations:
- The inner game of tennis: https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314
- Winning ugly:
https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/067188400X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TROW17W0GOFF&keywords=winning+ugly+by+brad+gilbert+hardback&qid=1676287137&s=books&sprefix=winning+ugly%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C180&sr=1-11 hr 9 min
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Welcome to "The People Factor," where we explore the role of the people function in driving business success. We dive into the strategies, tactics, learnings & failures from top organizations…
to drive strategic objectives impacted by the people function. Weekly, Thomas chats with industry experts and thought leaders about news, the latest trends and best practices related to develop an organization. Tune in to "The People Factor" to learn how to unlock the full potential of your team and organization.