Pep Talks: The People Experience Podcast

Pep Talks: The People Experience Podcast

"People Experience" is what HR should have been all along. Employees are people, not resources. It's about time we start recognizing this. We believe that human-first leadership is pivotal to the future of work. We want to create a community of knowledge sharing and uplift voices of those trying to make a difference in the employee, or rather, "people experience". In our episodes, we’re going to talk with people leaders across various industries about their experiences, their wins, their pivots, challenges, failures… and what they are envisioning about both our present workplace and the future of work.

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July 6, 2022 57 mins

Our guest, Erin McCann, has been a part of multiple fast growing startups where she's helped People Ops start from scratch and shaped processes. Over the course of our episode, you'll learn about her windy-road journey into People Ops and everything that growing organizations should be considering when it comes to setting up compensation structures and strategies at their orgs.

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In this episode, Billy Moyer, Human Capital Thought Leader, joins us to talk about the when, why, and how on developing the role of Chief People Officer at organizations. We'll talk about his work partnering with CEOs and C-level executives on developing organizational culture and when is the sweet spot to bring in a People Leader. 

Along with diving deeper into Billy's work, you'll learn more how to identif...

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"Take your judgment out of your policies." says our guest, Lorraine Vargas Townsend, People and Culture Executive and Chief People Officer at ESO.

In this week's episode, our conversation starts with discussing how organizations should be supporting working-parents and over our time together progresses into discussing the changing employee-value proposition, what it means to truly listen to your people, how...

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Pivot. Experiment. Try something new.  Get comfortable with the uncomfortable. 

This is something that our guest, Tushar Pandit, knows quite well. 

Tushar is a People Experience and HR Leader with over 20 years of experience across a variety of industries. He is the former CPO of Affinitiv and helped lead the organization as they navigated the rapidly changing work environment and the COVID pandemic. 

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"The old normal is dead. It's not coming back. Stop trying to get it back." - Trav Walkowski

In this week's episode, People Ops leader Trav joins us for a reality check.

Candidates and employees have taken back their power. They no longer will stand to be overworked or under appreciated and won't work under poor conditions. They want flexibility and healthy work environments and they&apos...

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Earlier this year, we had the chance to meet with Rebecca Waits, Chief People Officer, and Chief Coach, of SierraConstellation Partners. Rebecca's role supports business growth and transformation. And how does she do that? By being an ally and supporting her people first and foremost.
 
You'll learn from Rebecca how to foster a coaching culture at your organization. Not sure what a coaching culture is? You'll...

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On this week's episode, Kristen Bakalar,  joins us to advocate that organizations focus on creating inviting cultures, which are proactive and deliberate. We'll learn how to truly create an inclusive culture you first start with an invitation.

About our guest: Kristen Bakalar is a workplace innovator and a diversity advocater.  She runs her own consulting practice, where she specializes in what she calls "t...

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On this episode, we invite Chief People Officer, BJ Johnston to discuss his experiences over his career, how that has shaped his leadership style, and what is important to consider when designing the ideal candidate experience. BJ Johnston has had an incredible journey. He worked as the Senior Leader of Air Operations & Professional Military Education in the United States Air Force which led him to a variety of additional leade...

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Chief People Officer Loren Rosario-Maldonado joins us to discuss what it takes to lead multi-national and multi-cultural organizations through the constantly changing world and work environment, and, thought-provoking suggestions to leaders on key areas of self-development to consider. 

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Maureen Joseph was the first hire at GoodVets as their Chief People Officer. If you ask Maureen, she'll tell you she's a coach and advisor first and foremost. We know that mental health and burnout are top of our concerns across many industries, especially in the past few years amidst a global health crisis and other humanitarian crises... But mental health and burnout have been long-standing issues in the veterinary indu...

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On this trailer episode, you will meet your host, Chava Vietze, ChangeEngine's Head of Content and Community and two of the founders of ChangeEngine, Andrew Higashi and Gaurav Saini.  Here at ChangeEngine, we're building the next big workplace tech solution and paving the way for the future of work! As a part of that, we want to create a community of knowledge sharing and uplift voices of those trying to make a difference...

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