The Modern People Leader

Brené Brown, professor, author, and podcast host, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We discussed her experience as a leader, the concept of metacognition, and the leadership skill of creating space between stimulus and r...

Annie Dean, VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian, joined us on The Modern People Leader. She shared Atlassian’s learnings after 1,000 days of distributed work : their calendar redesign experiment, the impact of in-person gatherin...

Crystal Boysen, Chief People Officer at Sprout Social, joined us for a deep dive into People Debt. We discussed what it is, how to identify it, and specific areas where Sprout Social is focusing its efforts to address it. ---...

Brian Elliott, a leading expert on flexible work, joined us on the show. We talked about whether or not remote work is actually dead (looked at the actual data), the questions to ask when your CEO pushes for a RTO, and why a ...

Melanie Rosenwasser, Chief People Officer at Dropbox, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We discussed Dropbox’s virtual-first model, how they measure its success, and the three types of in-person gatherings they organize....

David Hanrahan, Chief People Officer at Flare, and Jessica Zwaan, Author of Built for People & COO at Talentful, joined us live in Austin, Texas. We talked about how performance management is stuck in the past, the idea of te...

Helen Russell, Chief People Officer at Rivian, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about scaling the culture as they’ve grown to 15k employees in the last few years, how Rivian is changing the face of what it loo...

Liz Fosslien, the co-author of No Hard Feelings and Big Feelings, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about her journey to becoming a best-selling author, the 7 Big Feelings that we've all been experiencing the p...

Pat Wadors, Chief People Officer at UKG, joined us on The Modern People Leader. She shared the story of coining the term “DIBs”, what’s on her personal scorecard and “Goldilocks Spreadsheet”, and why it’s important to be an “...

Dave Ulrich, Author & Professor, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about HR’s role adding value to customers and investors, why the ROI of HR is the “Return on Intangibles”, and the four questions every HR lead...

Roz Francuz Harris, VP of Talent Acquisition at Zillow, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about Zillow’s ‘CloudHQ’, the massive impact that CloudHQ has had on DEIB metrics, and why Talent leaders should embrace...

Zapier’s Wade Foster (Co-Founder & CEO) and Brandon Sammut (Chief People Officer) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how they pre-vetted their match in the interview process, why they did a company-wide AI...

David Hanrahan, Chief People Officer at Flare, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how he’s testing team performance reviews at Flare, the learnings from a survey that he sent out to 61 first-time CPOs, and...