138 - Building culture in a remote-first environment: Vanesa Cotlar (VP People & Culture, PolicyMe)

Vanesa Cotlar, VP of People & Culture at PolicyMe, joined us on The Modern People Leader.  

She shared how to get executive buy-in on people team hires you plan to make, what goes into building culture in a remote-first environment, and how to build trust remotely. 

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(2:25) Good news stories

(7:52) Vanesa’s career journey

(12:54) How being a founder has helped her as a People Leader

(15:26) What PolicyMe does

(17:25) Employee choice & AI in HR

(21:12) Experimenting with ChatGPT

(29:35) What’s keeping her up at night

(31:05) Getting executive buy-in on hires you plan to make for the people team (see original post)

(32:35) Her “if I had time, I’d do it” list

(38:16) Building a good culture in a remote-first environment

(41:55) The 12 events PolicyMe has per year

(47:48) The importance of collecting feedback on a regular cadence

(50:35) Building trust in a remote-first environment

(56:15) Her advice to the one-person HR teams out there

(59:30) Rapid fire questions

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