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 environment, and how to build trust remotely.  ---- This episode was brought to you by CandorIQ. Learn more here. ---- (2:25) Good news stories (7:52) Vanesa’s career journey (12:54) How being a founder has helped her as a People Leader (15:26) What PolicyMe does (17:25) Employee choice & AI in HR (21:12) Experimenting with ChatGPT (29:35) What’s keeping her up at night (31:05) Getting executive buy-in on hires you plan to make for the people team (see original post) (32:35) Her “if I had time, I’d do it” list (38:16) Building a good culture in a remote-first environment (41:55) The 12 events PolicyMe has per year (47:48) The importance of collecting feedback on a regular cadence (50:35) Building trust in a remote-first environment (56:15) Her advice to the one-person HR teams out there (59:30) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow Vanesa Cotlar on LinkedIn 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn