Mark Smith is a seasoned global talent leader with over 20 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, and Talent Management. Currently serving as Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition at Medtronic, a leading medical technology company, Mark oversees a global team that drives innovative hiring solutions to advance Medtronic's mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending lives. Under his leadership, Medtronic’s TA team has consistently delivered excellence across more than 150 countries, supporting a workforce of over 90,000 professionals. Mark’s team plays a pivotal role in ensuring Medtronic continues to lead in healthcare innovation, addressing 70 health conditions and impacting millions of patients globally.

Guest:

Mark Smith: Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition at Medtronic

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markedwardsmithta/

Hosts:

Becky Lauseng - https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-lauseng/

Jay Olson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayolson/

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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

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We’ve made it to 100 episodes of What the HR! — and we’re marking the moment with a special farewell to our original hosts, Jessie Novey and Mike Thul. Since 2019, they’ve brought thoughtful conversations, expert insights, and plenty of personality to the mic as dedicated TCSHRM volunteers.

In this milestone episode, new host Becky Lauseng sits down with Mike and Jessie for an interview looking back on their journey, favorite moments, and the evolution of the podcast.

Looking ahead, Becky will continue as the lead host, joined by two rotating co-hosts who will help shape the next chapter of What the HR!.🎙️💼

Guests:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

Host:

Becky Lauseng - https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-lauseng/

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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

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Dr. Benjamin Granger is Chief Workplace Psychologist and Head of EX Advisory Services. He has over a decade of experience building Experience Management (XM) programs across the globe and leads EX thought leadership and research initiatives across Qualtrics and the XM Institute.

Report: https://www.qualtrics.com/ebooks-guides/2024-ex-trends-report/

Guest:

Benjamin Granger: Chief Workplace Psychologist | XM Institute

linkedin.com/in/benjamin-granger-7147991b

Hosts:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected].

Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

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With over 15 years of experience in human resource strategy, organizational effectiveness, and talent development, Bethany Kurbis helps leaders and organizations reach their potential and accomplish their unique missions. As an experienced people leader, she works with clients across various sectors to develop strategies that align their daily practices with their core values and guiding principles. She also supports them in developing self-awareness, understanding their patterns and habits, and unleashing their potential to achieve personal and professional goals.

Guest:

Bethany Kurbis: Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | Career Coach | Forbes Coaches Council

linkedin.com/in/bethanykurbis

Hosts:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected].

Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/

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Teresa Sande is the CEO and Founder of Mirror Mirror Strategies, an organizational strategy & talent development consultancy focused on cultivating effective, inclusive leaders and high-performing organizations. With 25 years of experience in global corporate settings—including executive roles at Intel, Capital One, Cargill, and UnitedHealth Group—Teresa has dedicated her career to helping organizations identify, develop, and elevate top-tier talent.

Guest:

Teresa Sande: Talent Executive | Coach | Consultant | Author | Fierce Finder

linkedin.com/in/teresasande

Hosts:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected].

Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

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Jay is a Talent Acquisition and HR leader with over 20 years of experience. He is passionate about driving success through collaboration and communication, and he is always looking for ways to improve the way things are done. Believing in continuous improvement and a growth mindset, Jay has a proven track record of leading, building, and rebuilding Talent Acquisition teams in a variety of environments, including Corporate, RPO, and Agency.

Guest:

Jay Olson: Director, Global Talent Acquisition | Medtronic

linkedin.com/in/jayolson

Hosts:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected].

Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/

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Leah Pitzenberger is a psychologist by training, but spent almost a decade in various HR roles at Target Corporation, before focusing her career on start-ups and scale-ups in innovative, high-growth industries as their CHRO, including time as the Head of HR at the Minnesota Wild. Now, she is the founder of A People Revolution, helping organizations and leaders thrive in the future of work. She appeals to the non-believers, the nay-sayers, the skeptics. Her strategies are grounded in logic, truth and practical application. Her approach isn’t fluffy or ambiguous. It’s simple, clear, backed by science, and filled with her own experience and truths. She is changing how leaders and organizations think about delivering results … and is on a mission to create a world where Mondays don’t suck.

Guest:

Leah Pitzenberger: CEO, A People Revolution

linkedin.com/in/leahpitz

Hosts:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected].

Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/

Thank you for listening, and if you enjoy our podcast episodes please consider leaving a review, as it helps us reach more listeners. 

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Sharona is a global HR consultant with expertise in global total rewards. Her specialties are compensation, benefits, HR operations, HRIS, performance management, and global mobility. Her experience spans a variety of industries including tech services, healthcare, manufacturing, venture capital, market research, and insurance. She has spent much of her career leading global total rewards for small- to mid-sized companies experiencing significant growth and transformation through both steady-state and M&A phases. She enjoys helping her clients by leveraging strategic, data-driven expertise with tactical support and robust change management to solve business challenges.

Sharona is SPHR certified and is a board member and treasurer of the Chicago Compensation Association and a founding member of The People Collective.  She received her Bachelor’s in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and her Master’s in Labor and Industrial Relations with a concentration in Human Resources Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In her free time, she enjoys her family and hiking the outdoors. She also has a slight addiction to pickleball.

Guest:

Sharona Abramson: Founder at Inflection Point Total Rewards, LLC

Sharona Abramson | LinkedIn 

Hosts:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

Engineer:

Chris Mueller - linkedin.com/in/cjmueller86 

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected].

Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/

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Since 1992, Nancy has led the Human Resources team for Room & Board, a 100% employee-owned (ESOP) business with more than 1,000 staff members and annual revenues in excess of $600 million. Nancy also serves on the Board of Directors for the company.

As an omni-channel retailer of contemporary home furnishings, Room & Board strives to create exceptional experiences for their customers to help them create homes they love. Nancy’s role is to ensure that a staff member’s experience at Room & Board is equally gratifying. 

Nancy guides a team whose purpose is to foster a work environment that supports a staff member’s desire to contribute to the success of the business, while creating an environment where each individual thrives because they can be themselves. Room & Board has consistently been recognized as a top employer and is proud to be a certified B Corporation.

Further, Nancy plays a key role in defining and executing Room & Board’s philanthropic strategies to protect our environment as well as strengthen the communities in which we live and work.

Nancy is a sought-after speaker at top universities and business forums, sharing expertise and innovative thought leadership in business strategy and culture-based leadership development, as well as staff member engagement and well-being. Her efforts are laser-focused on preserving Room & Board’s core philosophies and business culture while stimulating company growth. 

Nancy received her MBA from the University of Buffalo. She has also held progressive HR roles in premier companies such as the Pillsbury Company as well as small start-ups.

Guest:

Nancy Greatrix Manley, Chief People Officer at Room & Board

Nancy Greatrix Manley | LinkedIn 

Hosts:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

Engineer:

Chris Mueller - linkedin.com/in/cjmueller86 

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected].

Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/

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Kevin serves as an Executive Leadership Fellow at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He teaches applied leadership in several graduate courses. His current research topics include leadership coachability, executive derailment, and contemporary talent development. In 2015, he concluded a 34-year corporate career in leadership and talent development at General Electric and General Mills.

During his time at General Mills, the organization was consistently recognized for its innovative development work, highlighted by Fortune’s #2 ranking as one of the best companies in the world at leadership development, #1 listing by Leadership Excellence magazine, #1 Global Learning Elite ranking, and Training Magazine’s “Hall of Fame” designation as a top company for employee development. In 2007, Chief Learning Officer magazine selected Kevin as CLO of the year.

Kevin continues to be an active contributor to the leadership and talent development profession with business advising and writing. His advisory work includes the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), Study.com, and GP Strategies/Learning Technologies Group. In 2011, his first book, Dancing with the Talent Stars: 25 Moves that Matter Now, was published by Human Capital Media. 

In 2015, Kevin served as editor of A CLO Leadership Reader: Chief Learning Officer Magazine’s Best for Today’s Learning Leader. His writing for Talent Management magazine received a national award for editorial excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. His work has also been published in over a dozen books, including Coaching For Leadership, the Pfeiffer Annual on Leadership Development, and Forward Focused Learning. 

While actively researching, writing, and teaching, he first and foremost considers himself a student of the game of leadership and believes there is always something new to learn. 

In 2022, Kevin authored Coachability: The New Leadership Superpower.

Guest:

Kevin Wilde: Executive Leadership Fellow at Carlson School of Management

(19) Kevin Wilde | LinkedIn 

Hosts:

Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael

Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey

Engineer:

Chris Mueller - linkedin.com/in/cjmueller86 

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected].

Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.

Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/

Thank you for listening, and if you enjoy our podcast episodes please consider leaving a review, as it helps us reach more listeners. 

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