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 an employee experience that allows for flexibility and scale.   ---- This episode was brought to you by CandorIQ. Learn more here. ---- (3:03) Good news stories (8:00) The two things important to her in her career: thinking strategically & HR being viewed as a partner (13:38) What Elastic Path does (15:01) Why we should be jealous she gets to work there (16:48) State of the union for talent in Canada (20:25) Rebuilding trust and doing more with less (22:00) You can’t wait to put emphasis on your Employee Experience (24:30) Ways people teams can save money and do more with less (28:13) Using metrics to drive your people strategy gives you credibility (31:43) Asking the “odd question”: Figuring out the pain points of other execs (35:00) Having a leadership team first approach (37:30) The rest of the C-Suite need to understand the strategic nature of HR (42:23) “Full elastic approach”: Remote-first, their asynchronous charter, and having a flexible approach to all of their programs (47:55) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow Joanna Kmiec on LinkedIn 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn