Modern People Leader Episodes

Jan. 9, 2023

88 - Lars Schmidt (Founder, Amplify) on the 2 things HR pros should prioritize for their careers & ways HR will look different in 2023

Lars Schmidt, Founder of Amplify Talent, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about what you should know if you plan to make the jump into HR, the 2 most important things for HR practitioners to prioritize their c...
Jan. 3, 2023

87 - Amy Lavoie (VP People Success, Torch) on how to make DEI work

Amy Lavoie, VP of People Success at Torch, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about Torch’s people success scorecard, the importance of measuring your people programs, and what their research uncovered about how...
Dec. 19, 2022

86 - Kelly Keegan (VP People, Built In) on building the people function of the future

Kelly Keegan, VP of People at Built In, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how she’s thinking about building the people function of the future and why everyone in HR could use a therapist. Timestamps: (12:...
Dec. 12, 2022

85 - Recharge’s Michael McArthur (SVP People) & Ashley Grech (COO) on reducing toil, the 3 pillars of being a great company, & career development

Recharge’s Michael McArthur (SVP People) & Ashley Grech (COO) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why Recharge is focused on reducing toil, the 3 pillars of what it means to work for a great company, and th...
Dec. 5, 2022

84 - Sara Gorjão (Chief People Officer, tb.lx by Daimler Trucks) on the Human Energy Crisis

Sara Gorjão, Chief People Officer at tb.lx, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the Human Energy Crisis we’re facing, tb.lx’s experiment with the 36-hour workweek, and why being a perfect people leader isn’...
Nov. 28, 2022

83 - Amanda Ono (CHRO, Kroll Digital Services) on change leadership & 2023 planning

Amanda Ono, CHRO at Kroll Digital Services, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about 2023 planning, her biggest learnings scaling a company from 90 to 250 employees in one year, and navigating change as a leader...
Nov. 21, 2022

82 - 2023 Planning for People teams

Today we reflected on the last couple of episodes and then we discussed 2023 planning for People teams. Timestamps: (6:30) Operating your people function like it’s a product of your company (8:30) The 3 products that every co...
Nov. 14, 2022

81 - Jim Bartolomea (SVP, Global Head of People & Places, ClickUp) on building the employee experience like a house

Jim Bartolomea, (SVP, Global Head of People and Places) at ClickUp, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the challenges he’s most excited to tackle as ClickUp’s new people leader, building the employee exper...
Nov. 7, 2022

80 - Jessica Zwaan (COO, Whereby) on people ops as a product & recent layoffs in the news

Jessica Zwaan, COO at Whereby, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the recent layoffs in the news, how we can raise the CPO role to be looked at as more commercial, and why you should treat people ops as a ...
Oct. 31, 2022

79 - HR Leaders: You got this

Today we reflected on our biggest learnings from the last few months of The Modern People Leader. Timestamps: (8:10) Understanding what a human-centered organization is (14:10) The language and words we use to describe work (...
Oct. 24, 2022

78 - Kim Rohrer (Head of Employee Experience, Oyster) on creating a unified employee experience across 70 countries

Kim Rohrer, Head of Employee Experience at Oyster, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the biggest challenges in creating a unified employee experience across 70 countries, why every company should have a H...
Oct. 12, 2022

77 - John Foster (4-time CHRO & Founder of Gamut Labs) on how to build a human-centered organization

John Foster, 4-time CHRO & Founder of Gamut Labs, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the difference between a traditional and a human-centered organization, the 5 dimensions of a HCO, and why HCOs get more...
Sept. 27, 2022

76 - Merary Soto-Saunders (Global Head of DEI, CVC Partners) on impacting DEI for 500k people

Merary Soto-Saunders, Global Head of DEI at CVC Partners, joined us on The Modern People Leader. She shared her advice to first-time HR leaders, CVC’s process for setting DEI goals, and how she’s able to impact DEI for over 5...
Sept. 19, 2022

75 - Group Chat: Gen Z’s impact on how we work

This week we had three return guests for another MPL group chat: Laura Robblee, CHRO at Zuora Steve Cadigan, Former CHRO of LinkedIn & author Stephanie Cramer, SVP of People at MGAC We discussed how Generation Z is impacting ...
Sept. 15, 2022

74 - Career advice from MPL guests

In this episode we reflected on MPL guests' responses to our three rapid-fire questions: What career advice would you give your 22-year-old self? (1:25) If you had a magic wand, what would you fix in HR? (16:43) What’s coming...
Sept. 5, 2022

73 - Group Chat: Hybrid work’s impact on DEI

This week we had three return guests for another MPL group chat: Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab Hallie Bregman, The Bregman Group Valerie Jackson, Chief Diversity Officer at Zuora We talked about how COVID has given e...
Aug. 29, 2022

72 - Quiet Quitting & why being a CHRO is so hard

This episode was recorded a couple of weeks ago, so we apologize if the content from this episode is a little dated. We talked about Malcolm Gladwell’s thoughts on remote work, quiet quitting, and our 3 biggest takeaways from...
Aug. 11, 2022

71 - Ciara Lakhani (Chief People Officer, Dashlane) on what HR can do during times of uncertainty

Ciara Lakhani, Chief People Officer at Dashlane, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about what HR can do to weather the storm during economic downturns, employee expectations for their organizations versus inves...
July 24, 2022

70 - Valerie Jackson (Chief Diversity Officer, Zuora) & Laura Robblee (CHRO, Zuora) on their flourishing CHRO <> CDO relationship

Zuora’s Laura Robblee, CHRO, and Valerie Jackson, Chief Diversity Officer, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why their CHRO/CDO partnership works so well and how they’re laying the foundation for a new Zu...
July 13, 2022

69 - Melissa Werneck (Global Chief People Officer, Kraft Heinz) on "The Year of the Manager" at Kraft Heinz

Melissa Werneck, Global Chief People Officer at Kraft Heinz, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the work Kraft Heinz is doing to help support and develop their managers, why it was important for the move f...
July 7, 2022

68 - Stephanie Cramer (VP Human Resources, MGAC) on applying solution selling to recruiting

Stephanie Cramer, Vice President of Human Resources at MGAC, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how she’s incorporated solution selling into the way she recruits and what MGAC is doing to support their emp...
June 28, 2022

67 - Beth Steinberg (SVP People & Talent, Chime) on investing in leaders early on

Beth Steinberg, Senior Vice President of People and Talent at Chime, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why it’s so hard to find good HR leaders, what happens when you don’t invest in leaders early enough,...
June 21, 2022

66 - Jackson Lynch (Founder & President, 90 Consulting) on what a good HR Leader looks like

Jackson Lynch, 3-time CHRO and Founder of 90Consulting, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why there needs to be consistency in what’s expected from a CHRO, why talent strategy should be bifurcated from ta...
June 14, 2022

65 - Mai Ton (Chief People Officer at Fabric & Author) on being more than your work

Mai Ton, Chief People Officer at Fabric and Author of Come into My Office, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why your identity shouldn’t be centered around what you do at work, how she prepped her former ...