146 - The first 6 months as a Chief People Officer: Q Hamirani (Chief People Officer, Paper)

Q Hamirani, Chief People Officer at Paper, joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about his first 6 months as a Chief People Officer, why your company should have well-defined focus areas, advice to other first-time CPOs, and tying your HR KPIs to actual business outcomes. ---- This episode was brought to you by Leapsome. Explore Leapsome's intelligent HR platform here. ---- Go check out The PeopleGPT Community. ---- (1:26) How Q’s first 6 months as Chief People Officer went (7:45) Good news stories (13:42) What Q’s journey as a first-time Chief People Officer has looked like so far (18:45) Setting rigor on backfilling and workforce planning process (21:30) How he describes the role of Chief People Officer (23:08) Why people should aspire to be a Chief People Officer (24:30) Rebuilding trust at Paper (27:30) Why they moved comms under the People Team (30:29) Defining the three areas of focus for the business (39:06) Advice to other first-time CPOs (42:45) Tying HR KPIs to actual business outcomes (46:05) Changing his views on AI in HR (51:47) Why he built the PeopleGPT community (1:03:42) Rapid Fire Questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn