EP 75: Creating a thriving & diverse culture. Diversity Sprints. Aligning performance reviews with talent development and discovering superpowers.

Our host, James Mackey, is joined by Sandy Gould, the CPO of Pinwheel, who has held people/hr leadership roles at Disney, ABC, and oversaw the integration of 3 organizations post Verizon’s acquisitions of Yahoo and AOL.Sandy’s thought leadership gives us a high-level philosophical view of people leadership and tactical steps to creating a diverse, high-performing, and profitable culture.Sandy shares how his personal origin story created his worldview that all of us have superpowers. And the goals of leadership teams is largely about uncovering and empowering folks to utilize their superpowers.Sandy shares his experience with diversity sprints and an unconventional approach to performance reviews and talent development. He explains the importance of segmenting performance reviews from performance improvement conversations to help people become the best version of themselves.   1:11 Sandy's experience and what he is currently working on20:30 Diversity sprints and how to implement them23:55 Three things to do first when joining a company as a CPO31:30 The purpose of performance reviews33:28 Performance amplification: improving conversations and process Thank you to our sponsor, SecureVision, for making this show possible!  Follow us:https://www.linkedin.com/company/82436841/SecureVision: #1 Rated Embedded Recruitment Firm on G2!https://www.g2.com/products/securevision/reviewsThanks for listening!