Modern People Leader Episodes

Jan. 31, 2024

152 - Southwest Airlines' Culture Team, Onboarding, & Moments that Matter: Whitney Eichinger (SVP & Chief Communications Officer) & Lori Winters (VP Total Rewards)

Whitney Eichinger (SVP & Chief Communications Officer) and Lori Winters (VP Total Rewards), joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about what their Culture & Communications team does, the continuous focus on the 27 ...
Jan. 29, 2024

151 - Becoming a more Transparent Organization: Adam Horne (Co-Founder, Open Org)

Adam Horne, Co-Founder at Open Org, joined us on The Modern People Leader. He shared examples of the most transparent organizations, how to build a business case for more transparency, how to avoid giving employees mixed mess...
Jan. 26, 2024

150 - How Top Companies Build Winning Cultures: Simon Taylor (Head of Organization Effectiveness, Gap)

Simon Taylor, Head of Organizational Effectiveness at Gap, joined us on The Modern People Leader. He shared the three steps to building a high performance culture, the three things all leaders need to do really well, and the ...
Jan. 22, 2024

149 - 1,000 Days of Distributed at Atlassian (Annie Dean, VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian)

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...
Jan. 18, 2024

148 - The CHRO<>CEO Relationship: Hannah Yardley (Chief People & Culture Officer, Achievers)

Hannah Yardley, Chief People & Culture Officer at Achievers, joined us on The Modern People Leader. She shared how only 1/3 of CHROs feel a strong connection to their exec team, a framework for making big CPO<>CEO decisions, ...
Jan. 16, 2024

147 - Help employees find their higher purpose: Sunny Grosso (Workplace Wellbeing Igniter & Culture Maven)

Sunny Grosso, Workplace Wellbeing Igniter & Culture Maven, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the current state of happiness at work, why wellbeing starts with your leadership team, transcendence and its r...
Jan. 9, 2024

146 - The first 6 months as a Chief People Officer: Q Hamirani (Chief People Officer, Paper)

Q Hamirani, Chief People Officer at Paper, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about his first 6 months as a Chief People Officer, why your company should have well-defined focus areas, advice to other first-time...
Dec. 18, 2023

145 - Broken Systems & Shifting from Pay to Performance Convos: Haris Ikram (Co-Founder at CandoriQ)

Haris Ikram, Co-Founder at CandorIQ, joined us on The Modern People Leader. First, he interviewed us about how we got into the HR space and times we’ve noticed “the system” to be broken. Then, he shared how we can empower man...
Dec. 13, 2023

144 - An HR Leader’s Journey with Workplace Accommodations: Jodie Cenci (HR Director, Primary.com)

Jodie Cenci, HR Director at Primary.com, joined us on The Modern People Leader. She shared her journey navigating workplace accommodations since her fibromyalgia diagnosis, the surprising number of people in the U.S. with dis...
Dec. 5, 2023

143 - The Science of High Performing Teams: Josh Siegal (VP People, 7Shifts)

Josh Siegal, VP of People at 7Shifts, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about navigating complexity and conflict at work, the biggest misconceptions about high performing teams, and what the science says about ...
Nov. 28, 2023

142 - The Retention Revolution: Erica Keswin (Author, Speaker, & Workplace Strategist)

Erica Keswin, author of three WSJ best-sellers, workplace strategist, and podcast host, joined us on The Modern People Leader. This episode was recorded at O.C. Tanner's Influence Greatness. She shared why we should be elevat...
Nov. 20, 2023

141 - Understanding the EX across 140k employees: Johanna Söderström (EVP, Chief People Officer, Tyson Foods)

Johanna Söderström, EVP & Chief People Officer at Tyson Foods, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how she’s gotten a better understanding of the EX across Tyson’s 140k employees, how they've trained up the...
Nov. 13, 2023

140 - Designing the Employee Journey & Going from CPO to HR Tech CEO: Joris Luijke (CEO of Pyn | Former CPO @ Typeform)

Joris Luijke, CEO at Pyn, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why “Employee Experience Design” has been getting more attention this last decade, how hard it is to be a Chief People Officer right now, and tw...
Nov. 6, 2023

139 - Pat Wadors (Chief People Officer, UKG): Creating a Personal Scorecard, Coining “DIBs”, & The Agile Leader

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 “...
Oct. 30, 2023

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 environ...
Oct. 23, 2023

137 - Handling No’s from your CEO & Reminding fellow execs what HR is optimizing for: Melanie Naranjo (VP People, Ethena)

Melanie Naranjo, VP of People at Ethena, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how to handle no’s from your CEO, the questions to ask leadership when you’re interviewing for the top HR role, and why you need ...
Oct. 17, 2023

136 - Understanding Pain Points & Using Metrics to build credibility as a People Leader: Joanna Kmiec (VP, People & Culture, Elastic Path)

Joanna Kmiec, Vice President of People & Culture at Elastic Path, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about using metrics to drive your people strategy, understanding the pain points of other execs, and creating ...
Oct. 9, 2023

135 - Rivian CPO on scaling culture from 9 to 15,000 employees & changing the face of factory workers: Helen Russell (Chief People Officer, Rivian)

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...
Oct. 6, 2023

134 - How CHROs can align themselves closer to revenue: Jessica Zwaan (Author, Built for People) & Ryan Bonnici (CMO, Gympass)

Jessica Zwaan (Author, Built for People) and Ryan Bonnici (CMO, Gympass), joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why HR should be considered a revenue generating function, how to align yourself closer to reven...
Oct. 2, 2023

133 - The 3 qualities of the smartest teams, letting AI replace routine work & fostering collective intelligence: Dr. Vivienne Ming (Professional Mad Scientist)

Dr. Vivienne Ming (Professional Mad Scientist), joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about letting AI replace the routine work, the qualities of the smartest teams, and how to foster collective intelligence. ---- ...
Sept. 25, 2023

132 - Navigating major life & career changes: Alex Seiler (Former GHJ Chief People Officer, ex WeWork & NBC, and Advisor)

Alex Seiler (Former GHJ Chief People Officer, ex WeWork & NBC, and Advisor), joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about navigating major life and career changes, the impact of indecisive leadership on Chief People...
Sept. 21, 2023

131 - Key Pillars of Internal Marketing (Kerry-Ann Stimpson, The Internal Marketing Podcast)

Kerry-Ann Stimpson, host of The Internal Marketing Podcast, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the key pillars of internal marketing, why her company started an internal podcast, and how to use employee su...
Sept. 18, 2023

130 - HR 3.0 & how boards are looking at HR (L. David Kingsley, Chief People Officer at Illumio)

L. David Kingsley, Chief People Leader at Illumio, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how boards are looking at HR, the evolution from HR 1.0 to 3.0 in the last few years, and having the numeracy required ...
Sept. 11, 2023

129 - The Year of Productivity: Andrew Bartlow (People Leader Accelerator)

Andrew Bartlow, Co-Founder of the People Leader Accelerator, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why this is the year of productivity, the data you should be looking at when making decisions on remote vs. i...