The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR 119 - Operationalizing your values & improving asynchronous communication: Nadia Vatalidis (Head of People & Culture, TestGorilla)
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Jul 11, 2023 AI Snips
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Kids Learned Humility Volunteering
- Nadia sent her kids to volunteer at a library and they learned humility from hard, mundane work.
- She framed the experience as teaching ownership and grounding privilege for her 10- and 13-year-old children.
GitLab Leap Rewrote Her Career
- Nadia described taking a leap from her small business to join GitLab, which transformed her career and remote-work approach.
- She then scaled those lessons through Remote and into TestGorilla to build distributed people practices.
CEO Life Outside Work Shapes Culture
- Great CEOs deeply care about people and have fulfilling lives outside work.
- That personal balance signals a culture where employees can integrate life and work healthily.