People Science and Cultivating Effective HR Partnerships with Enspira's Kurt Landon

From human resources to people engineers, HR has gone through a lot of rebrands. Throughout those shifts, what remains consistent is the necessity for leaders to organize and efficiently run teams. Kurt Landon stops by The Future of Teamwork to discuss approximately 30 years of consulting, team building, and partnering with HR teams to help businesses work more effectively together. With HUDDL3 CEO and show host, Dane Groeneveld, Kurt touches on outside leadership entering an environment, the strategic importance of customer advisory boards, DEI efforts, and more.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:12 - 05:25] Kurt Landon's background and path to Enspira
• [05:32 - 11:52] The breadth of exposure to different industries and aspects of business during Kurt's career
• [12:12 - 17:04] Differentiating between human capital and human resources
• [17:06 - 22:14] What enabled success when transitioning to an LLC and starting to do consulting
• [22:39 - 26:01] Making outside and in-house partnerships see each other as teammates
• [26:03 - 32:06] Navigating and addressing poor leadership, identifying talent within a company's ranks
• [32:12 - 38:05] What Kurt and Enspira started helping customers within the early days: business, culture, focus
• [38:30 - 39:32] Customer-led journey advisory board
• [39:36 - 43:11] People science and the art of engaging with employees, customer advisory boards
• [43:15 - 50:39] Practices to change team dynamics toward DEI efforts