Nadia Vatalidis (Head of People & Culture, TestGorilla) joined us on The Modern People Leader.

She shared tips for improving asynchronous work, how to operationalize your values, the types of CEOs that she likes to work for, and how to iterate your onboarding experience.

Timestamps:

(2:30) Good news stories

(9:06) Nadia’s career journey:

(14:20) Traits of the best CEOs she’s worked with

(17:48) What TestGorilla does

(20:00) Why we should be jealous she gets to work at TestGorilla

(21:39) Being the first Head of People and having the opportunity to build from scratch

(28:03) Guiding what asynchronous work looks like at TestGorilla

(31:08) 3 tips for improving asynchronous work

(37:07) Document everything, it will pay off big in the long run

(39:20) Operationalizing your values

(43:00) Your culture is going to evolve

(46:34) Onboarding starts when the person accepts the offer

(50:00) Tech stack for documentation

(52:51) Rapid fire questions

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