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Engage and Empower
by Rasika Rajagopalan
A podcast about the people behind people teams. Join me as I have conversations with other People and Talent Leaders to learn more about their journey, and the innovative approaches they have taken to support, empower, and grow their teams.
Episodes
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Casey Woo, CEO/Founder of Operators Guild: Strategic Headcount Planning and AI’s Impact on Venture Funding
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, host Rasika Rajagopalan sits down with the incredible Casey Woo—5x CFO, COO, and now CEO and Founder of the Operators Guild. Casey has a wealth of experience, having served as Global Head of Strategic Finance at WeWork, CFO at Landing, and as an...
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Jessica Swank, CPO of Box: Rethinking Productivity through the AI Talent Race
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, host Rasika Rajagopalan sits down with Jessica Swank, Chief People Officer at Box, to explore the future of HR in an AI-driven world. Jessica, an experienced public company leader with an impressive background at HP and Blue Bottle, shares practical...
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Jeff Diana, Former CPO at Calendly, Atlassian: Managing Executive Disagreements
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, host Rasika Rajagopalan sits down with Jeff Diana, former Chief People Officer at Calendly and Atlassian. With leadership experience at Expedia, SAP, and Microsoft, Jeff is a seasoned advisor and board member who helps companies navigate the unique...
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Jevan Lenox (CPO of StitchFix, BlueBottle, Minted, Insitro): What distinguishes the top 1% of CPOs?
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, host Rasika Rajagopalan sits down with Jevan Soo Lenox, Chief People Officer at Insitro, to uncover what sets the top 1% of people leaders apart. With a career spanning leadership CPO at StitchFix, Minted, and BlueBottle, Jevan shares his insights on...
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Liz Simon, COO of Industrious: Is Remote Work Dead?
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, host Rasika Rajagopalan sits down with Liz Simon, COO at Industrious, to explore the evolving workplace landscape. They discuss the future of remote and hybrid work, balancing flexibility with productivity, and how coworking spaces meet the changing...
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Marty Reaume, 4x CPO (Fitbit, Sequoia, Twilio, Netsuite): Landing and Navigating Your First Board Seat
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, I chat with Marty Reaume, former CPO at Sequoia, Twilio, Fitbit, and NetSuite, about her journey from executive leadership to board membership. Marty shares her insights on landing a first board seat, adapting to influence without authority, and...
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Priti Patel, CPO at G2: Driving Organizational Transformation
Excited to share the latest episode of Scaling People featuring Priti Patel, Chief People Officer at G2! 🎙️In this episode, Priti and I talk about how to approach organizational transformation when you need to adapt the way you operate to meet the demands of the future. We discuss discuss...
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Shane Koller, CPO at Ancestry: The Metrics that Matter
Tune in to the Scaling People Podcast, where host Rasika Rajagopalan interviews Shane Koller, Chief People Officer at Ancestry. Shane delves into the importance of aligning HR metrics with business goals, the challenges of measuring productivity in remote work environments, and how to effectively...
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Donald Knight, SVP of People at Warner Bros Discovery: The CPO Role Across Industries
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, I sit down with Donald Knight, SVP of People at Warner Bros. Donald, who has led HR teams across tech, utilities, and entertainment, shares insights on the unique and universal challenges in People and Talent leadership. We discuss the key…
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Lorna Hagen, Cofounder of WIN Consulting: Your People Strategy is your Business Strategy
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, I chat with Lorna Hagen, founder of Win Consulting and former CPO at Namely and iHeartMedia. We dive into the ROI of investing in culture, balancing startup norms without bureaucracy, and how to influence leadership when they don’t see the value of...
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Lars Schmidt, Founder & CEO of Amplify Talent: The Future of Recruiting
Join me on this episode of Scaling People as I chat with Lars Schmidt, founder of Amplify Talent and author of Redefining HR. We cover the biggest changes in hiring, the role of AI in recruitment, and how to effectively interview executive-level candidates. Lars shares his expertise on building...
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Cara Allamano, Former CPO of Lattice: Wartime vs. Peacetime CPO Leadership
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, I sit down with Cara Allamano, former Chief People Officer at Lattice and co-founder of People Tech Partners. We dive into her experience navigating "wartime" leadership during layoffs, restructuring, and major transitions, while balancing immediate...
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Katie Burke, Former CPO at HubSpot: Supporting Entry Level Talent in Today's World
In this episode, Katie Burke, former Chief People Officer at HubSpot, shares insights on supporting entry-level talent in today’s world, emphasizing the importance of sustainable mental health programs, effective onboarding in remote environments, and attracting Gen Z talent. She also discusses…
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Spencer Rascoff, Co-founder and former CEO of Zillow: Working with Founders and the Future of HR
In this exciting episode of the Scaling People Podcast, I sit down with serial entrepreneur and investor Spencer Rascoff. Spencer is the co-founder of Hotwire, Zillow, and Pacaso, and is also the founder of the venture capital firm 75 and Sunny. With his extensive background in launching and...
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Mel Steinbach, CPO of Masterclass: From Fortune 500 to Founder led Startup
In this episode of the Scaling People Podcast, I chat with Mel Steinbach, Chief People Officer at Masterclass. We explore her experience leading people teams at Fortune 500 giants like McDonald's and scaling startups like Cameo. Mel shares insights on balancing innovation and risk, hiring for...
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Founder and CEO of Kona, Sid Pandiya, on Building Strong, High Trust Teams
In this episode Sid Pandiya talks about the story and inspiration behind Kona, his company that provides companies a tool to drive conversations around how teams are authentically feeling, and how to best support one another. Sid shares many tips around how managers can generally build trust and...
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Cultivating an Authentic and Original Employer Brand, with Head of People at Reggora, Emma Brudner
In this episode, Emma talks about the evolution of the interview process over the last few years, and discusses what types of qualities employers should be looking out for as they evaluate talent. She gives advice to candidates that are contemplating a career pivot, and shares her personal story...
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Head of DEIB at Curology, Sean Cervera, on "Inclusive Recruiting" vs. "Diversity Recruiting"
Sean Cervera has been in the diversity space for over 10 years and has a wealth of experiences leading diversity and recruiting initiatives from LinkedIn, Twilio, Uber, SpaceX, Google, and most recently, Curology. Sean talks about the distinction between Inclusive Recruiting, vs. Diversity...
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Claire Schmidt, Founder of AllVoices, On the Importance of Empowering Employees to Share their Experiences
In this episode, Claire talks about her inspiration to found AllVoices, a powerful platform geared towards enabling employees to anonymously share feedback with their company’s leadership and people team. AllVoices also provides leaders and People team members the opportunity to respond directly…
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Head of Remote at GitLab, Darren Murph, On Scaling your Remote Culture and Enabling Distributed Work
GitLab was early in the game in building a fully distributed work experience. In this episode, Darren shares insight into what guided GitLab's initial decision to be a fully distributed company, along with best practices around scaling your remote culture and experience. He discuss the importance...
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Audrey Blanche, Director of Equitable Design at CultureAmp, on the Power of Equitable Design in Creating Longterm Impact
In this episode, Aubrey talks about the power of Equitable Design in making meaningful, impactful, systemic change, and what this looks like at CultureAmp. She also talks about how companies can cultivate belonging as they transition to distributed models for the longer term. Lastly, Aubrey…
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Head Of People Science at Glint, Archana Ramesh - Reflecting on 2020s Learnings with Applications for 2021
In this richly packed episode, Archana reflects on her discoveries after sorting through thousands of data points through 2020. She talks about the drivers of burnout risk and how companies can place focus around learning and development to prevent burnout. She talks about the plateau of…
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Chief People Officer of Newfront Insurance, Heather Dunn, on the Value of Leading with Compassion
In this episode, Heather Dunn talks about the distinct role that a Chief People Officer plays in an organization as compared to other Senior People Leader roles. She talks about the role the people team plays in building resilience through an organization and the importance of leading with…
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The Way People Teams Impact the End Customer Experience with Ashley Alexander, VP of People at Front
In this episode, Ashley provides insights around how people leaders and people initiatives can actually have an effect on the end experience your customers have, ultimately impacting your bottom line. Ashley talks about the balance people leaders need to have in leveraging broad trends and people...
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Head of Diversity, Equity and Belonging at Chime, Erica Johnson, on the role of your DEB leader within your organization
In this episode, Erica Johnson, Head of DEB at Chime talks about the role of the DEB leader within the organization. It goes far beyond internal work - DEB leaders partner with all leaders across the business - marketing, product, tech, people, sales, etc. and centralize conversations around...
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Building a Strong Culture of Feedback with Michelle Campbell, Cofounder of Eager Labs
In this episode we dive into the adventure Michelle has had through her career up until her most recent venture of cofounding her own company, Eager Labs! Eager Labs serves to provide organizations and individuals tools to learn together and lead better. Michelle shares some great insights around...
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Empowering your employees to create a culture they own with Kerry Robert, Head of HR at Entrada Therapeutics
In this episode Kerry talks about the transition from Counseling Psychology to the People and Culture world. She also talks about the people team as being a steward of culture vs. as a creator of culture, and how you can enable your organization to drive and take ownership of building something...
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Finding Founders that Give the People Function a Seat at the Table with Jane Jaxon, VP of People at Wistia
In this episode we learn more about how Wistia approached responding to the pandemic by leveraging a team oriented approach to making decisions and supporting their people. We also talk about strategies to drive inclusion across your organization, and the importance behind finding founders that...
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Supporting Your Executive Team, with Julia Sigel, Director of People Operations at Lemonade
In this episode we dive into how to coach executive leaders as new Head of People. We also talk about what it was like to move from the startup world to joining a company that recently went public! Lastly, we talk about the importance of focusing on your internal inclusion and belonging efforts…
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Coaching vs. Consulting with Ellen Sweeney, VP of People Operations at MeUndies
In this episode, we talk about the important distinction in coaching vs. consulting, and the ability that coaching has to unlock the potential in your employees. Ellen also talks about what MeUndies has learned about distributed work through the pandemic, and how they've decided to build a return...
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The Evolution of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging in Tech with Felicia Jadczak, CEO and Cofounder of She Geeks Out
In this episode, we talk about the story behind She Geeks Out, an organization founded by Felicia and her cofounder Rachel Murray geared towards giving other tech and tech-adjacent womxn and their allies an opportunity to network, learn, and connect with each other as well as with companies who...
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Building Relationships, Trust, & Psychological Safety As a Fully Distributed Team with AJ Josephson, Head of People at Miro
In this episode, we talk about how to build trust and psychological safety as a distributed team by focusing on building strong value touchpoints through onboarding, driving a collaborating vs. co-acting culture, and through intentionally creating forums to have conversations that go a lot deeper...
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Identifying and Defining your Core Values with Gabriela McManus, SVP of People Operations at Drizly
In this episode, we talk about how to build leadership development programs that are sticky and effective, whether you are designing for new managers or seasoned executives. We also talk about how Gabriela approached her role as joined Drizly, and how she worked with the Drizly team to define…
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On Navigating Change with Laura Parrott, Head of People at Floyd
In this episode, we talk about how leaders can empathetically support their organizations through change by leveraging the change curve. This curve describes the predictable process we all go through of transitioning from denial, to doubt, to acceptance when faced with new changes. We also talk...
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Equity Centered Design with Diane Kim, VP of People & Culture at Prose
In this episode, we talk about the role of equity centered design and democratic decision making in building a culture of inclusion. Diane shares the importance of reflecting on where power resides within your organization, ensuring that your programs are built around the needs of your employees,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about the people behind people teams. Join me as I have conversations with other People and Talent Leaders to learn more about their journey, and the innovative approaches they have taken to support, empower, and grow their teams.
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Rasika Rajagopalan
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A podcast about the people behind people teams. Join me as I have conversations with other People and Talent Leaders to learn more about their journey, and the innovative approaches they have taken to support, empower, and grow their teams.
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