When trust is missing at the top, HR feels like climbing Everest without oxygen W/Angela Kiniry

When trust is missing at the top, HR doesn’t just feel hard — it feels like “hiking Mount Everest without oxygen”. In this episode of We’re Not Recording, Angela Kiniry, Chief People Officer at Articulate, shares how a lack of trust between HR and executive leadership makes it nearly impossible to lead authentically — and how that absence ripples down through teams and culture. Angela opens up about resilience, empathy shaped by motherhood, balancing accountability with humanity in performance conversations, and why building trust at the top is essential for creating safety throughout an organization. An honest conversation about fulfillment, growth, and what it really takes to lead in HR.