The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR

Siadhal Magos, Co-Founder & CEO at Metaview, joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about where we’re at in this AI revolution, how recruiters can augment what they’re doing with AI, and why you’re at a relative advantage if you’re adopting AI across your business. Timestamps: (1:50) Good news stories (6:08) How Siadhal’s journey led him to co-founding Metaview (10:12) The most challenging aspect of being a founder of a work tech company (12:38) On building an AI product (14:46) What Metaview does (18:38) Why we should be jealous Siadhal gets to work at Metaview (22:00) Where we are at in this AI revolution and what’s to come (31:37) Organizations will take positions on what they choose to automate with AI depending on business goals (36:50) Getting people more comfortable with AI (41:58) How recruiters can augment what they’re doing with AI (55:15) You’re at a relative advantage if you’re adopting AI across your business (56:41) Running hiring processes that understand the candidates context & increasing productivity (58:49) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow Siadhal Magos on LinkedIn 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

Jame Jackson, from Humorous Resources, joined us on The Modern People Leader.  She shared why she started a meme account for HR, why startups should invest in leadership development early, and how she sees managers weaponizing PIPs. Timestamps: (1:08) Good news stories (4:48) Why Jamie started a meme page for HR (7:54) The different meme accounts that Jamie runs (10:30) A day in the life of someone running a meme account (13:00) Bale besties (17:00) Horrendous HR stories (21:30) Employee relations & PIPs (24:00) Managers weaponizing PIPs (31:08) Using AI to help with employee relations (34:30) Why startups should invest early in leadership development (36:05) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow Humorous Resources on Instagram 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

David Landman (Global Head of Talent Development, Goldman Sachs) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about the retentive power of internal mobility, how they shifted from a mindset of talent scarcity to talent abundance, and how they're enabling the right conversations between managers and employees. Timestamps: (1:20) Good news stories (7:00) David’s career at Goldman Sachs: from intern to Global Head of Talent Development (12:15) How David cold called his way into his first internship at Goldman Sachs   (15:20) Why we should be jealous he gets to work at Goldman Sachs (19:45) The talent development team at Goldman Sachs and what they do: L&D, Performance, & Career Paths (21:50) State of the union for talent: “we’re in a period of patient observation” (24:30) This is the year of talent retention (26:04) How AI can help bring more empathy and humanity to the workplace (30:30) The retentive power of internal mobility (38:00) Shifting from a mindset of talent scarcity to talent abundance (45:00) How much time Goldman requires people to be in a seat before moving roles internally (49:25) How they’re enabling the right conversations between managers and employees (52:00) What it means to be a good manager at Goldman Sachs (54:30) The 3 conversations at Goldman Sachs (1:02:22) Supporting managers to have more empathetic conversations (1:06:07) 2 HR tools to check out (1:09:32) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow David on LinkedIn 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

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 ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow Nadia on LinkedIn 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

M Valentine (Founder of Annem HR Academy) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about how HR teams can better focus on the human element, eliminating high friction experiences in the employee experience, and why leaders need to level up their consciousness. Timestamps: (1:01) Good news stories (7:34) Her story: Cashier at Gap, Assistant Manager at Gap, built “Healthy, Happy University” at Gap, HR Nomad at companies like Stitch Fix and Visa, and then started her HR academy (18:14) Teaching the core competencies of HR in a way that infuses DEIB best practices and a low friction employee experience (24:14) What it means to be “humans working” (28:03) How HR teams can focus on the human element (32:50) Eliminating high friction experiences for employees (38:59) Leveling up your consciousness (47:49) Gene Keys (52:16) If you want to lead, you’re going to need to do the work (57:09) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow M Valentine on LinkedIn 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

Crystal Boysen (Chief People Officer, Vimeo) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about intentional culture building, how to bring your core values to life on your people team, and why Vimeos People Team operates like a product team. ---- This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here. ---- Timestamps: (3:05) Good news stories (8:15) Crystal’s journey to becoming Chief People Officer at Vimeo (12:32) What Vimeo does (13:55) Why we should be jealous she gets to work at Vimeo (16:48) The foundation of business is people. Without people, you have no business (20:00) One of the most powerful culture change models (23:05) State of the Vimeos (SOTVs) (25:00) Making the most out of all hands meetings: customer stories, employee panels, and mass kudos (28:01) Bringing the core values to life within the people team (32:04) Running Vimeo’s people team like a product team (36:42) The Vimeo People Team’s 3 key priorities for the year (39:20) Vimeo’s new learning experience platform (41:40) Sourcing “the right talent” at Vimeo (45:00) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow Crystal Boysen on LinkedIn💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

Rajeeb Dey (Founder & CEO, Learnerbly) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about why we need to rethink the ROI of learning, how to create hyper-personalized learning experiences, and commonly held beliefs in L&D that we need to let go of. ---- This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here. ---- Timestamps: (3:05) Good news stories (7:15) Raj’s career journey and how he became an entrepreneur (15:35) How Learnerbly is redefining the learning tech category  (18:54) Why we should be jealous he gets to work at Learnerbly (20:40) Moving from Talent Acquisition to Talent Activation (22:26) What it means to have a thriving culture of learning (26:24) Rethinking the ROI of learning (27:37) Engagement in learning (31:12) What a world class learning experience looks like: hyper-personalized learning, reaches people in the flow of work, and allows people to connect. (33:35) Raj’s Learnerbly playlist (36:04) Commonly held beliefs in L&D that we need to let go of (38:45) How Learnerbly uses Learnerbly (42:09) How Raj believes AI could impact learning (46:58) The most transformative learning journey he’s seen with a client (49:20) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to become a smarter HR leader 🛎 Follow Raj on LinkedIn 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

Yael Irom (Head of Leadership & Professional Enablement at Tanium) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about Tanium’s co-hort based leadership programs and the reception they’ve received thus far. ---- This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here. ---- Timestamps: (2:30) Good news stories (7:20) Her early career was founding public schools (15:08) What Tanium does (19:15) Why we should be jealous she gets to work at Tanium (22:50) What she does as the Head of Leadership & Professional Enablement (27:34) How they built the “Skills and Performance” program in a way that was scaleable and effective (35:36) The “Leadership Accelerator Program” at Tanium (39:27) The reception to the accelerator program (40:49) The global enablement team at Tanium (43:18) The language they use and how they refer to their people (45:16) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to the MPL Weekly Digest 🛎 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 🛎 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 🛎 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

Q Hamirani (Chief People Officer, Paper) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about the Live and Work Anywhere Program from his time at Airbnb, how he navigates moments of uncertainty, and how he’s approaching his first 90 days as Chief People Officer at Paper. ---- This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here: https://get.learnerbly.com/mpl/ ---- Timestamps: (2:36) Good news stories (6:03) Q’s journey: Engineering student —> consultant —> global strategy & ops —> HR consulting —> MBA —> People Ops —> Chief People Officer (15:00) What Paper does (15:49) Why we should be jealous he gets to work at Paper (17:30) How Live and Work Anywhere came about at Airbnb (26:56) The four pillars of the Live and Work Anywhere program (32:30) The definition of global mobility changed during the pandemic (38:18) How he operates in moments of uncertainty (44:50) What attracted him to Paper (46:55) How he’s going to approach his first 90 days as Chief People Officer (50:30) Rapid fire questions  Subscribe to the MPL Weekly Digest: https://forms.gle/qdt6YaWULfoEHb6n8 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-modern-people-leader

Penny Farinha (VP, Human Resources, ecobee) joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about scaling the ecobee people team from 1 to 25, how her role has evolved, and why more companies should admit when they don’t have all the answers. This episode was brought to you by Learnerbly. Get a free 7-day trial of Learnerbly here: https://get.learnerbly.com/mpl/ Timestamps: (6:57) Growing the HR team from 1 to 25 (9:44) Why we should be jealous she gets to work at Ecobee (14:47) Building HR functions from scratch (16:32) How her role has changed over the last 7 years (20:14) Being able to leverage a larger HR team after being acquired (23:14) Creating more pathways in tech for marginalized groups (29:14) Conflict resolution (32:14) Admitting when we don’t have all of the answers (43:04) Rapid fire questions Subscribe to the MPL Weekly Digest: https://forms.gle/qdt6YaWULfoEHb6n8 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-modern-people-leader