182 - Lessons from Chief's CPO on building communities & companies: Trey Boynton (Chief Diversity & People Officer, Chief)

Trey Boynton, Chief Diversity & People Officer at Chief, joined us on The Modern People Leader.

We talked about why running a community is similar to HR work, where communities and companies tend to stumble, and the metric we wish existed for managers.

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(2:35) Good news stories

(10:50) Trey’s journey from academia to CPO

(17:45) What Chief does

(21:46) The myth around the divestment of DEI

(24:50) Why running a community is a lot like HR

(29:57) Intentionality is everything with community building

(34:19) Things are constantly changing in the world and in HR—you have to evolve with your people

(37:59) Onboarding community members versus employees

(45:50) The leadership crisis

(51:25) The best leaders know they don’t know

(56:30) Rapid fire questions

(1:02:27) One word or phrase close

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