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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