The End of the Vibe Check Interview | Colleen Gallagher, CEO of Textio

Most leaders learn to read a company by its story. Colleen Gallagher learned to read it by its numbers.In this episode, AJ Vaughan sits down with Colleen Gallagher, CEO of Textio, the HR technology company that has spent more than a decade helping some of the largest organizations in the world write sharper job postings and make better hiring decisions.Colleen did not come up the traditional people path. She started in consulting, running diligence on companies being bought, sold, and financed, learning to assess a business fast by how it made money and where it put that money to work. That foundation carried her from CFO to COO to CEO of Textio, and it still shapes how she leads.We get into:How finance gives you visibility into the entire organization instead of a single trackWhy strategy is really the allocation of two limited resources, money and timeWhat it takes to assess the health of any business quickly, starting from the invoice level upThe thinking behind Lavalier, Textio's new interview intelligence platform, is built to keep hiring anchored to skills and evidence instead of opinionWhere hiring decisions are heading as the evidence underneath them gets strongerIf you care about the financial logic underlying people's decisions, this conversation is for you.Learn more about Textio: https://textio.com/The Business of Alignment is where workforce leaders name what is actually true about the future of work.