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“HR Heretics” | How CPOs, CHROs, Founders, and Boards Build High Performing Companies — 206 episodes
The 2026 Recruiting Reckoning & AI Predictions
Inside Executive Coaching with Nathan Tanner
Blitzscaling's Chris Yeh on Infinite Learning, Staying Cool, and Building Strategic Networks
Why Zapier Requires 100% AI Fluency (And How They Measure It)
The VP Who Asked to Be Demoted: A Masterclass in Self-Awareness
Bryan Power on Exits, Loyalty, and Why Your Goodbye Matters More Than You Think
Why L&D Fails (And How to Fix It) with Fidelma Butler
The Post-Acquisition Power Reckoning
The HRBP Role Is Broken: Here's How to Fix It
Why Giving Stock to Everyone Is Harder Than It Sound
The Brutal Truth About Running Layoffs
Ex-Amazon Director's Viral Post Exposes Tech's Broken Employment Contract
Snowflake CPO Arnnon Geshuri on Their AI Framework for HR
Molly Graham on Founder Depression and Executive Team Dynamics
Get Inside the Mind of your Team’s Best Interviewer, with Vercel’s Viet Nguyen [from 10X Recruiting]
"3000 Applicants in Minutes": Recruiting Now with Jason James, Co-founder of Tezi
'Intelligence on Tap' At Your Org, with Siadhal Magos, Metaview CEO
Rethink Your Bonus Program
No Private DMs
Fractional Work's Dirty Secret: How to Do a Full-Time Job in 25 Hours - Insights from Sally Thornton, Forshay
Building Culture-First Companies: Insights from Culture Amp's CEO, Didier Elzinga
Building Elite Teams at Coinbase with L.J. Brock
The H-1B Shakeup: Immigration Program Redesign and Alternative Pathways
A CPO's First 90 Days
$100K H-1B Fee? Analyzing Trump’s Policy with Nicole Gunara of Manifest Law
Nextdoor’s CPO on “The Great AI Divide”: Tinkerers vs Resisters
The Death of Traditional VC: Why Platform Shifts Demand People-First Investors, with Katelin Holloway of Seven Seven Six
Applying Design Thinking to People Operations with Iain Roberts, Airbnb
The AI Expectations Crash with Metaview CEO Siadhal Magos
Inside LinkedIn's First AI Agent, with Mark Lobosco
Building Relationships with Board Members
40 Hours, No Meetings, No Politics: Building a Company That Actually Works with David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
"I Live Off Intensity": Steve Cadigan on Jeff Weiner's Leadership That Built LinkedIn
How AT&T's CEO Just Exposed the Engagement Survey Con Game
Dave Margulius: "Starting a Company Without VC Money is Like Starting a Religion"
Exit Interviews Are a Waste of Time
The Rise of the Elite Operator with Casey Woo
From Windsurf to DeepMind: How Acquisition Deals Really Work
Why DIY Executive Search Fails with Andy Price, Artisanal Ventures
The Astronomer Scandal
How ServiceNow Turned Talent Data Into Competitive Intelligence with Sarah Tilley
The Real HR Problem: Bitterness, Bad Leadership, and Why Anti-Empathy Actually Works with Ethena CPO Melanie Naranjo
Testing Everything: How HashiCorp Rewrote the People Playbook
Unpacking the Windsurf-Google Deal with Carta's Peter Walker
The 5 Layers of Business Literacy Every HR Leader Must Master, with Jeff Diana, former CPO of Calendly
Bolt Says They Killed HR, But the Work Doesn’t Go Away
Equity Negotiation: The Ultimate Guide to Not Getting Screwed
Why 50% of CEO-HR "Marriages" End in Divorce with Colleen McCreary
Zapier’s Bold Bet: Every New Hire Must Be AI-Transformational, With CPO Brandon Sammut
AI's Impact on Entry-Level Jobs
The Dirty Secrets of Executive Departures
How To Actually Use AI Agents, With Samy Aumar of Qonto
Your Next Hire Might Be a Deepfake with Danielle Mathis, VP Global Talent at Clari
Executive Search is Broken — Here’s What Executive Candidates Really Need to Know with Neil Frye, Dotmatics (ex-Google & Dropbox CPO)
I Demoted Myself Twice at Meta - And It Made Me Happier with Cynthia "Baz" Shrauner, Head of People - Electric Capital
Why Greylock's Glen Evans Says Your All-Nighter Culture Is Actually Anti-Growth
Why HR Should Never Lead Training: The Case for Leader-to-Leader Learning with Fidelma Butler, Couchbase
The Fractional Executive Myth with Sally Thornton, Forshay
Is It Ever Okay to be Late to Meetings?
Creating the 'Airbnb for Offsites': Jared Kleinert on Building the Future of Work Retreats
The $8M DoorDash Mistake: Equity Offers
Tobi Lütke Wants Shopify Employees to Use AI Reflexively — Should You? with Siadhal Magos of Metaview
360 Reviews Without the Dread
Troy Sultan: How Guide Turned RCs into Iron Man
Sapphire VC’s People Leaders Retreat & Deep Fakes
Character AI's Annie Wickman on PMF, Google's Deal, and Humu
Startup Ethics: All In or Out
VC Brett Queener Unpacks AI-Native Startups and the End of Grunt Work
Claude's Human-Like AI & Groundbreaking Research from Anthropic with Siadhal Magos
Solving for False Negatives in Hiring with Arthur Matuszewski
Rethinking the HRBP Role with Lucy Adams, Disruptive HR
Real Personal Crises at Work
HR Spy Games: Deel vs Rippling
HR Needs More Tension with David Hanrahan
Calibration Sessions Demystified
Compliance Training Doesn't Have to Suck: The Ethena Story with Roxanne Petraeus, CEO
First 90 Days as CPO of a Big Company: Colleen McCreary's Blueprint
Crickets On Your Job Search? Do THIS Instead.
JP Morgan's CEO Hates Remote Work
Agentic AI: Hype vs Reality? with Siadhal Magos of Metaview
The Feedback Dilemma: Ethics vs Risk
Airbnb’s Iain Roberts on Designing HR as a Strategic Service Function
Board Seats and Beyond, with Asana's Head of People Anna Binder
Tucking In Top Performers
Anthropic’s Interview Rules
TikTok & Tech Layoff Strategy with Jesse Tinsley
Hidden Job Market: Exec Hiring 2025 with Adam Ward
Navigating the Complexity of Company Values
Breaking Through Reorg Paralysis
Smart Hiring with Tom Clayton
When Success Means New Bosses: A Startup Growth Story
Unlocking HR's Hidden Insights with Siadhal Magos [AI Corner]
Adapting to Startup Reality and Having More Impact
The Art of Not Getting Fired for Not Firing People
The Anti-Org Chart: Why Colin Zima Traded HR for Chaos (and Won)
Big Tech Alumni: Help or Hindrance? with Bryan Power
The Very Best of Heretics 2024
The Year End Special: Personal L’s, Big Wins, and Why Headcount is Dead
Striking at the Heart of the Future of Work | AI Corner with Siadhal Magos on 11x AI
Why Messy is Good and Structure is Overrated
Be an Infinite Learner with Chris Yeh
Stop Saying You're a Business Partner (And Actually Be One) with Jeff Diana
C-Suite Budget Scrutiny? with Colleen McCreary
The 3AM People Leader: Donald Knight of Warner Brothers Discovery
Feedback Isn't a Gift, It's a Workout | Culture Amp CEO Didier Elzinga
Beyond the Red Flags: Managing Leadership Evolution
HR's Legal Blindside: The Litigation Wave
The Myth of the Perfect Candidate
From Department of No to Strategic Partner: Pendo’s CPO on Modern HR
Election Day 2024: Leading Through the Divide
Beyond Emily in Paris: Navigating French Business Culture and HR Politics with Ciara Lakhani
From Empty Suits to Real Leaders
When Breaking Everything Fixes Everything with Jared Fliesler
Burnout in the Workplace
Silicon Valley's Survival of the Fittest with Peter Walker of Carta
Trust No One? The New Realities of Tech Recruiting in 2024
Andy Price on Building World-Class Teams: Process is Overrated
Rethinking DEI in Tech After Microsoft's Team Dissolution
HashiCorp's CPO Christine Centa on Equity, Remote Work & AI
When CEOs Bare Their Souls in 36 Pages with Colleen McCreary
Realtalk: Feedback
Amazon's Return To Office Policy
Workplace Romance Power Dynamics
The First Team Trap: Avoiding Toxicity
Exec, Manager, Friend: CPO Trifecta
Promotions on Ice: Are you stuck?
Equity: Cash or Carrot? With Guissu Baier of General Catalyst
Everyone's Talking About Founder Mode
DEI: Pushback or Paradigm Shift? With Vijay Pendakur
When Is It Time to Quit Your Job?
Reinventing HR at Garner with Valentina Gissin
How Back Channels Really Shape Hiring Decisions
The Long Game of DEI: A Conversation with Joelle Emerson
The Vibe Shift in Tech
So the NYTimes says everyone hates HR, now what?
Should Your Org do Amazon’s Bar Raiser Interviews?
AI-Powered Hiring, Really... with Siadhal Magos of Metaview
How to Show Your Work
The AI Gold Rush and Talent Dynamics with Chris Vasquez of Quantum Talent
PIPs and Forks
Remote Work, Hiring Trends, and the Value of a College Diploma with Heather Doshay, Partner and Head of Talent at SignalFire
Meta Cuts VP Roles
Talking Executive Search 2.0 with Nick Cromydas of Hunt Club: Equity, Severance, and Overvaluation
Is MEI the Anti DEI? with Colleen McCreary and David Hanrahan
How (and why!) to take time off
From CPO to CEO: Michelle Wagner Tells All
Navigating the Real Power Structures at Your Company
Scale AI's "MEI" Hiring Announcement with Richard Ni, the former Head of People
Navigating Media, LinkedIn, and the HR Echo Chamber with Lars Schmidt
Rippling vs. Competitors: The Ex-Employee Dilemma
Pendo CEO Todd Olson on Co-Founder Conflict, Hiring Slow, and Pushing Limits at a Software Unicorn
The Future of Management
How Big Should Your Org Grow?
Toxic Managers
The Future of Tech Operators with Casey Woo, Founder of Operators Guild
The Big Stay
A Deep Dive Into Coaching as a Career with Nathan Tanner, author of The Unconquerable Leader
What's the Deal at OpenAI?
$3B Remote CEO on Killing the Return to Office
Career Decisions Round 2 with Janelle Lopez
Balancing Humanity and Numbers: A Michelle Weaver, CFO at Twitch
Do Non-Competes Harm Tech & AI Progress?
Getting to the Bottom of Skill Shortages, Burnout & Engagement: Kristy McCann Flynn, SkillCycle CEO
Politics in the Workplace is Just Distracting
The Architect of the Paypal Mafia: Peterson Conway
Shopify's Zero Sum Mastery Program
Leadership Development: Can We Keep Up With AI?: A Conversation with Adam Weber, Chief Evangelist at 15five
No Makeup, No Offer?
Lean Mindset, Business Impact and the New Era of HR: Jeff Diana, former CPO of Calendly
Pedigree is Overrated. McKinsey is Paying Employees to Quit
The State of Startups in 2023 and 2024: A Conversation with Peter Walker of Carta
Remote vs. In-Person
From MIT to HR Leader: A Conversation with Richard Ni, former CPO of Scale AI
How to Be Layoff-Proof
Building Legendary Teams: Trust, Transition, and Quality with JR Rettig of Pendo
The Promotion Problem
The Freedom to Fail and Dispassionate Assessment with A.J. Thomas of X, Google's Moonshot Factory
We Don't Talk About Board Dynamics Enough
Emergency Segment: Chamath Wants to Abolish HR?
Is Shopify's "~Mastery" Blowing Up Levels?
Building Radically Better Businesses with DHH of 37signals and Basecamp
Segment: Bolt Slashes Valuation 97% and Screws Over Employees
L.J. Brock, CPO of Coinbase Is Unflinching in the Face of the HR Status Quo
Elizabeth Patterson of Sapphire Ventures on How to Get Noticed by a VC Talent Partner
What’s Next For DEI: A Conversation with Mita Mallick of Carta
On The Record: New Norms for Layoffs in 2024
Inside M&As, Redesigning Comp, and a Public Company's CPO HR Tool Kit with Brigette McInnis-Day of UIPath
Reversing Roles: Number 1 or Number 2 Seat?
The Interview Process is Fundamentally Broken: Linear's Move to Work Trials
Katelin Holloway Thinks More HR People Need a VC Checkbook
Andreessen Horowitz's Matt Oberhardt on Backchannels, MOC Interviews, and Exec Recruiting in 2024
SymphonyAI's Jen Trzepacz on Comp Transparency, Yahoo's Early Days, and the Real Deal on CPO-CEO Relationships
Getting Honest About DEI in 2024: A Conversation with Colleen McCreary and David Hanrahan
The Enigmatic Q Hamirani on Turnarounds, AI, and the CPO Grind
A Deep Dive on Firing Executives
VC Dan Portillo, Founder/GP of TheGP on Being the Godfather of Talent Partners, Starting His Own Fund, and Experimentation
Segment: Is the DEI Movement in Tech Causing More Harm than Good?
Navigating the CEO-CPO Relationship with Lattice's Cara Brennan Allamano
Brett Queener Unfiltered: A Wake Up Call for Tech, 2024 Planning, and Driving High Performance
The HR Insider: Melanie Naranjo, VP People at Ethena Gets Real
David Hanrahan on High Performance: Comp Strategy, Performance Cycles, and New Norms
Steve Cadigan on Blitzscaling LinkedIn, Competitive Exec Teams, and RTO
Molly Graham on Building a Powerful Network, Managing Your Emotions, and Creating High Performing Teams in Hyperscale
Tomasz Tunguz on Hiring the Right Talent, Firing the Wrong Execs, and Navigating M&As
Colleen McCreary on Layoffs, M&A, and Recruiting the Best Talent
Patty McCord Thinks HR People Are Business People