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High Growth Matters is a podcast that explores topics on the minds of forward-thinking HR leaders and people managers — from leadership and strategy to emerging technologies. High Growth Matters...
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High Growth Matters is a podcast that explores topics on the minds of forward-thinking HR leaders and people managers — from leadership and strategy to emerging technologies.
High Growth Matters is sponsored by OpenComp, makers of end-to-end compensation software that gives you clarity every time you make a decision about pay. Its cohosts include Caitlin Allen, a startup executive with three exits under her belt, and Nancy Connery. Nancy was founding VP of HR and employee #5 at Salesforce and now leads one of the most reputable HR advisory firms in Silicon Valley. She’s also cofounder of OpenComp.
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High Growth Matters is sponsored by OpenComp, makers of end-to-end compensation software that gives you clarity every time you make a decision about pay. Its cohosts include Caitlin Allen, a startup executive with three exits under her belt, and Nancy Connery. Nancy was founding VP of HR and employee #5 at Salesforce and now leads one of the most reputable HR advisory firms in Silicon Valley. She’s also cofounder of OpenComp.
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23 MAY 2023
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19 MAY 2023 · Productivity spiked at the pandemic's beginning and has all but crashed since then. Today, we speak with Edie Goldberg about what’s happened, and how we can restore engagement and productivity in our teams and companies to record levels.
Edie is a nationally recognized expert in talent management and the future of work. For 20 years, her practice — E. L. Goldberg & Associates — has partnered with clients in all industries ranging from the Fortune 100 to startups to design HR processes & programs. Prior, Edie was a global thought leader in the human capital practice at Towers Perrin. She serves as board chair for the SHRM Foundation, and on the Board of Advisors for three HR tech companies.
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19 MAY 2023 · Today we talk about how HR teams power business fundamentals and innovation with Sophie Kitson, CHRO at SumoLogic since April 2022. Sophie began her career as a developer, then became a client-facing consultant at Accenture, and later moved into building, owning and leading people, talent, performance, leadership and culture at high-growth and high-performance organizations like PagerDuty, Salesforce, Mercury Interactive, and others. Immediately before SumoLogic, Sophie was an executive coach for 4 years.
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19 MAY 2023 · Lorie Boyd began her People Ops journey in college recruiting at Oracle, and went on to hire many of the early Salesforce team after she joined them as employee #90. After managing recruiting at other companies like Deem and Zendesk, she transitioned in people leadership at startups including Kahuna and Turo Inc. — where she’s currently Chief People Officer.
In this conversation, Lorie shares the accessible lessons she’s learned along the way, ranging from how to find the best college graduates and build high-performing teams at hyper-growth companies, to grappling with what a thriving hybrid employee experience looks like… and crying for the first time during her most recent performance review.
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16 MAY 2023 · Today, we talk to Laura MacKinnon about the nuances of transforming a global company during hyper growth, from reinventing culture to navigating rocky economic times. Laura is currently Chief People Officer at revenue intelligence platform, Clari, and has served in similar executive roles at organizations like Logitech, Opsware, Yahoo, Coupa, and SignalFx during significant periods of growth and company transition.
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25 APR 2023 · Meera D’Souza spent 17 years at McKesson after relocating from India. While at McKesson, she was promoted across many different departments, ranging from software implementation and product training, to customer education and leadership development. Meera then managed an offshore team at a call center, before joining a fast-growing SaaS startup in the Midwest as HRBP, which was acquired in 2021. She’s currently the VP of People at fleet operations platform Fleetio.
In this episode, we talk to Meera about what it’s like to design HR with the business lens she’s gained over time, as well as a truly equitable candidate and employee experience that bridges cultural gaps. We also chat about tips for companies going through M&A.
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11 APR 2023 · When the business going gets tough and tough professionals get going, communication can easily fall to the wayside. In this episode we speak with seasoned operator — as well as personal, executive, and management consultant & coach — Dawn Raagas about the architecture of effective relationship- and business-building communication. Dawn is currently VP of People Operations at Daasity.
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28 MAR 2023 · Governments, employees, and arguably our own gut instincts all tell us that paying people consistently and fairly is good for business if done in a scalable way, but is it? In this episode, we explore the relationship between how companies pay their people and how well they grow with Ryan Denny, who’s currently the head of research at Friends & Family Capital, which has invested in companies like Facebook, Gusto, and Robinhood. Before that, he led compensation at Palantir for almost a decade, and he’s served in related roles at companies like Google and Nutanix.
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21 MAR 2023 · If pay transparency means something different to everyone, and pay equity and equal pay aren’t the same thing, how can people and business leaders architect systems that promote consistency, fairness, and scalability? And what can SMB and mid-market businesses learn from their global peers? In this live podcast, we’re joined by Antoine Andrews, Chief Social Impact & Diversity Officer at Momentive formerly SurveyMonkey, who’s also an Advisor on OPEN Imperative’s Board and the Forbes Human Resources Council. Previously, Antoine has led diversity & inclusion at global organizations like Gap, Nike, Symantec, Year Up and others.
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14 MAR 2023 · The process of preparing a company for an initial public offering or special purpose acquisition company, also known as an IPO or SPAC, is a tense and important time when HR leaders play a very important role. In this episode, we talk to seasoned expert Jasmine Cheng about the ins and outs of that process, where HR leaders go wrong, and what employees have to understand (and usually don’t) about equity. Jasmine is currently Senior Director of Technical Accounting at OwnBackup.
High Growth Matters is a podcast that explores topics on the minds of forward-thinking HR leaders and people managers — from leadership and strategy to emerging technologies. High Growth Matters...
show more
High Growth Matters is a podcast that explores topics on the minds of forward-thinking HR leaders and people managers — from leadership and strategy to emerging technologies.
High Growth Matters is sponsored by OpenComp, makers of end-to-end compensation software that gives you clarity every time you make a decision about pay. Its cohosts include Caitlin Allen, a startup executive with three exits under her belt, and Nancy Connery. Nancy was founding VP of HR and employee #5 at Salesforce and now leads one of the most reputable HR advisory firms in Silicon Valley. She’s also cofounder of OpenComp.
show less
High Growth Matters is sponsored by OpenComp, makers of end-to-end compensation software that gives you clarity every time you make a decision about pay. Its cohosts include Caitlin Allen, a startup executive with three exits under her belt, and Nancy Connery. Nancy was founding VP of HR and employee #5 at Salesforce and now leads one of the most reputable HR advisory firms in Silicon Valley. She’s also cofounder of OpenComp.
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