What The HR!
What The HR! is a podcast hosted by TCSHRM board members Mike Thul and Jessie Novey. It offers insights, strategies, and anecdotes aimed at building better businesses through modern people practices. Topics include organizational development, employee engagement, listening strategies, succession planning, performance management, company culture, transformation, talent, and leadership.
Episodes
Episode 128: Investing in the Stock of you!
Being a Wealth Advisor is not just a career for Stacy Kupsky, it’s a deep privilege. Her passion in life is to see families, business owners, executives, and women in leadership win with money. She believes that money is a tool for stability, freedom, and ultimately impact.
Stacy works with clients to articulate their financial priorities, deliver strategies centered in their values, and curate t
Episode 127: HR Hot Topics: Let's Dig Into the Hard Stuff
Justin Terch is the owner and principal consultant of Terch & Associates Consulting LLC, an independent human resources consulting firm serving employers throughout the upper Midwest and has offices in Duluth and St. Louis Park Minnesota. He is an experienced workplace investigator who conducts independent investigations involving employee misconduct, harassment, discrimination, and other comp
Episode 126: When Speaking Up Is Hard: Tackling Workplace Bullying & Misconduct
Dr. Amy Jauman, SHRM-SCP, GPHR, is an HR professional, writer, researcher, and speaker specializing in victim-centered storytelling that fosters empathy, understanding, and meaningful change. As the HR Director for the DNA Doe Project, she applies her background in organizational development to support the volunteers and professionals working to restore names to unidentified individuals. With auth
Episode 125: The Gift of Volunteering - How Giving Back Becomes Growing Forward
Susie Heaver is a Human Resource professional with 25 years of experience possessing a diverse skillset including program management, recruiting, training, and overall human resource functions. A highly effective communicator with proven ability to build long term relationships with internal and external clients by establishing a high level of confidence and trust.
Susie has been with Ernst &am
Episode 124: Insights on the Job Search and Surviving Unemployment
Born and raised in Minnesota, Ed Kashmarek received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Minnesota and an MBA in Finance from the Carlson School of Management. He was an economist with Wells Fargo for 10 years, working under the direction of Dr. Sung Won Sohn, Dr. Michael Swanson, Dr. Scott Anderson and Dr. Eugenio Aleman. Ed says his job was like getting paid to go to school! E
Episode 123: Why Influence Is HR's Greatest Superpower
Howie Chan is the founder and chief strategist at The Behavioring Company, applying brand science and influence psychology to change human behavior for good. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, startups and leaders over the past decade, including a $1.5 billion spinout from Merck. Howie was named the #1 LinkedIn creator worldwide in branding by Favikon in 2024. He also hosts the #1 podcast i
Episode 122: The Shift: Accelerating Your Career with Intentional Leadership
🎙️ In this episode of What the HR!, hosts Becky Lauseng and Lena Scullard are joined by Kristin Dean, Chief People & Administrative Officer at Huntress, for an inspiring conversation on intentional leadership and career acceleration.
Kristin Dean leads the company’s global People organization. She partners closely with the executive leadership team to align talent and culture to the operation
Episode 121: From What If to How: Rebuilding, Reinventing, and Leading with AI
Jenny Cotie Kangas rebuilt her life from zero after a 2020 injury erased her memory, and built a methodology out of what worked. Now she runs Whiterock Road, a Builder Coach practice for applied AI, where she builds systems alongside clients and teaches them to build the next one. From what if to how.
Guest:
Jenny (JCK) Cotie Kangas - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcotie/
Hosts:
Becky Lauseng - http
Episode 120: A Case for Mental Health First Aid
Nicole is the Director of Human Resources at Bauer Design Build, where she leads people strategy with a focus on building people-first workplaces that align culture with business growth. Her work sits at the intersection of culture, operational reality, and mental health, creating environments where people feel seen, supported, and safe to speak up. With experience in highly structured industries
Episode 119: Slaying the Myths of Success
Scott Mason—The Myth Slayer—is a 2x TEDx speaker, executive coach, attorney, author, and former senior New York City government and nonprofit executive. A graduate of Columbia Law School, Scott spent more than two decades leading complex, high-impact initiatives across government, legal, nonprofit, and mission-driven organizations. This included serving as second-in-command of New York City’s cent
Episode 118: From Performance to Purpose: What Alignment Really Means
Laura King has had over 30,000 career conversations across two decades as an executive recruiter. She's sat with leaders at every level: the ones hitting their stride, the ones grinding without traction, and the ones doing everything right on paper and still falling short.
She learned that the gap between potential and performance almost always comes down to the system around people, not the peo
Episode 117: The Human Advantage: Leading Through Wellbeing
Nikki Peters is the Founder and CEO of Studio 9 to 5, a national workplace wellness company transforming how organizations support employee health, energy, and performance. With 20 years of experience in the corporate wellness sector, Studio 9 to 5 has partnered with companies across healthcare, government, finance, and commercial real estate to deliver programs that improve engagement, resilience
Episode 116: Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Every Conversation – Even in an AI World
Amy Jacobson is an EI and human behaviour specialist, delivering emotional intelligence programs, keynotes & workshops across Australia internationally. She is a twice Wiley-published author of 'Emotional Intelligence: A simple and actionable guide to increasing performance, engagement and ownership', and the new book ‘The Emotional Intelligence Advantage: Mastering change and difficult conver
Episode 115: Nobody Likes a Bad Manager - Not Even Your Money
Jeffery Robinson is the Senior Program Director at Build Wealth MN, where he leads financial education, coaching, workforce development, and housing counseling programs that help families build stability and generational wealth. His work is rooted in his personal mantra: “Because Somebody Did It for Me.”
A graduate of the University of Minnesota–Morris, Jeffery co-founded Imani, a student organiza
Episode 114: Human-Centered Hiring in an AI World
Paul DeBettignies, better known online as Minnesota Headhunter, is a Minnesota IT Recruiter who builds IT teams with startups and tech companies, creates recruiting strategies for Fortune 500 clients, author of the Minnesota Headhunter blog, the longest running regional recruiter blog and an Advisor to ToggleGreen.
He is a frequent local and national speaker, trainer and subject matter expert on r
Episode 113: Finding the Courage to Speak Up, Stand Out, and Shine
A 6-time award-winning keynote speaker Meredith Breitstein tours the world encouraging leaders to step into their destiny, walk through fear, and SHINE by finding their courage. She specializes in helping teams, and her audiences speak up, stand out, and command a room with their presence. After coaching thousands of leaders she has learned there are 5 steps all of us can take to level UP and star
Episode 112: The Habits of Future-Ready Leaders: Talent, AI, and What Actually Matters
Rick Rittmaster is a Leadership and Talent Development expert who leads the Leadership Solutions practice at Strategic Talent Partners and is a Co-Founder at Groveland Leadership. With over a decade of experience partnering with CEOs and senior executives, he helps organizations enhance leadership capability and drive sustainable growth.
Rick is known for his unique ability to make complex leaders
Episode 111: Unlocking Human Potential: Neuroscience, Coaching, and AI for Better Leaders
Heather Polivka helps leaders create workplaces where people thrive, great talent stays, and businesses grow. Whether clients are responding to a changing talent market, fueling high growth, or navigating accelerated change, Heather guides leaders to cultivate a way of working that fuels their business and empowers their people. She has been doing that for more than two decades at companies of all
Episode 110: Getting a Handle on Handbooks
Lena Scullard and Becky Lauseng welcomed employment attorney Kate Bischoff to discuss employee handbooks, which she defined as documents setting expectations and guidance distinct from tactical policy manuals. Kate advised that HR should determine the handbook's tone to match the company culture, use the document to drive cultural change, and review the handbook annually, ideally from back to fron
Episode 109: Great Leaders Make Sure Monday Morning Doesn't Suck
Eric Harkins is the President and Founder of GKG Search & Outplacement, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm that helps organizations Get, Keep & Grow talent. He is also an Amazon #1 best-selling author of: Great Leaders Make Sure Monday Morning Doesn’t Suck.
His goal is simple: Help every company he works with make sure Monday morning doesn’t suck for their employees. Eric is a motivationa
Episode 108: A Deep Dive into MN Paid Leave
Tiffany McDaniel, an Absence Consultant at Brown and Brown, explained the new Minnesota paid leave program, which takes effect on January 1st. Tiffany explained that employees are eligible for up to 20 weeks of paid time off with job and benefit protection for various reasons, including caring for a family member, bonding with a child, or their own serious health condition.
Tiffany McDaniel also
Episode 107: Know Yourself, Know Your People: Preventing Burnout at Work
Becky Lauseng and Jay Olson introduced Keynote Speaker, Janice Litvin, who defined burnout as chronic, unmanaged work leading to complete mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion, impacting organizational productivity and employee retention. Janice emphasized that individual awareness, effective managerial support, setting boundaries, and a top-down culture of well-being are crucial in preventin
Episode 106: The Perfect Game Day
In this episode, we talk with J.P. Paul, Vice President of Stadium Operations for the Minnesota Vikings, now in his 23rd season with the team. J.P. has been instrumental in creating world-class game day experiences for fans, leading initiatives in food service, crowd management, and facility operations at U.S. Bank Stadium. He also plays a key role in shaping the future of TCO Stadium at Viking La
Episode 105: Meet Our New Cohosts: Jay and Lena!
Becky Lauseng introduced Jay Olson and Lena Scullard as the new co-hosts for the "What the HR podcast," with both new co-hosts expressing enthusiasm for joining and engaging with the TCSHRM community. Jay Olson and Lena Scullard shared their non-traditional career paths into HR/Talent, their personal hobbies and passions, and their motivations for joining the podcast, with Lena Scullard aiming to
Episode 104: Energy: Emotions in Action
Kristen Brown is a Certified Speaking Professional, bestselling author, and interactive and funny keynote speaker and trainer who helps organizations unlock high-impact leadership, team engagement, and performance by harnessing the power of energy. With nearly two decades in corporate leadership and market research, she brings deep expertise in human behavior, workplace dynamics, and results-drive
Episode 103: Future Ready Leadership
Dr. Rosie Ward is a fierce advocate for humanity who is sought-after to help rehumanize workplaces that free, fuel and inspire people to bring their best selves to work – and home – each day. She serves as CEO and Founder of Salveo Partners, which was awarded the 2024 Stellar Business Award for best business consulting in the United States, and focuses on future-proofing organizations by strengthe
Episode 102: Return to People
John Christensen is an award-winning filmmaker, author, and the CEO of ChartHouse Learning, the company behind the globally recognized FISH! Philosophy. In 1998, during a visit to Seattle’s Pike Place Fish Market, he was inspired by the fishmongers’ energetic and joyful approach to their work. This experience led him to create the FISH! video, which evolved into a worldwide movement promoting work
Episode 101: Transparency in Leadership & Culture
Mark Smith is a seasoned global talent leader with over 20 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, and Talent Management. Currently serving as Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition at Medtronic, a leading medical technology company, Mark oversees a global team that drives innovative hiring solutions to advance Medtronic's mission of alleviating pain, restoring heal
Episode 100: Farewell to Mike and Jessie
We’ve made it to 100 episodes of What the HR! — and we’re marking the moment with a special farewell to our original hosts, Jessie Novey and Mike Thul. Since 2019, they’ve brought thoughtful conversations, expert insights, and plenty of personality to the mic as dedicated TCSHRM volunteers.
In this milestone episode, new host Becky Lauseng sits down with Mike and Jessie for an interview looking ba
Episode 99: 2025 Employee Experience Trends Report
Dr. Benjamin Granger is Chief Workplace Psychologist and Head of EX Advisory Services. He has over a decade of experience building Experience Management (XM) programs across the globe and leads EX thought leadership and research initiatives across Qualtrics and the XM Institute.
Report: https://www.qualtrics.com/ebooks-guides/2024-ex-trends-report/
Guest:
Benjamin Granger: Chief Workplace Psycho
Episode 98: Loneliness in HR
With over 15 years of experience in human resource strategy, organizational effectiveness, and talent development, Bethany Kurbis helps leaders and organizations reach their potential and accomplish their unique missions. As an experienced people leader, she works with clients across various sectors to develop strategies that align their daily practices with their core values and guiding principle
Episode 97: Imposter Syndrome
Teresa Sande is the CEO and Founder of Mirror Mirror Strategies, an organizational strategy & talent development consultancy focused on cultivating effective, inclusive leaders and high-performing organizations. With 25 years of experience in global corporate settings—including executive roles at Intel, Capital One, Cargill, and UnitedHealth Group—Teresa has dedicated her career to helping org
Episode 96: Does Your Candidate Experience Match the Employee Experience?
Jay is a Talent Acquisition and HR leader with over 20 years of experience. He is passionate about driving success through collaboration and communication, and he is always looking for ways to improve the way things are done. Believing in continuous improvement and a growth mindset, Jay has a proven track record of leading, building, and rebuilding Talent Acquisition teams in a variety of environm
Episode 95: Revolutionizing How We Live and Work
Leah Pitzenberger is a psychologist by training, but spent almost a decade in various HR roles at Target Corporation, before focusing her career on start-ups and scale-ups in innovative, high-growth industries as their CHRO, including time as the Head of HR at the Minnesota Wild. Now, she is the founder of A People Revolution, helping organizations and leaders thrive in the future of work. She app
Episode 94: Pay Transparency
Sharona is a global HR consultant with expertise in global total rewards. Her specialties are compensation, benefits, HR operations, HRIS, performance management, and global mobility. Her experience spans a variety of industries including tech services, healthcare, manufacturing, venture capital, market research, and insurance. She has spent much of her career leading global total rewards for smal
Episode 93: Exploring the employee-owned (ESOP) model
Since 1992, Nancy has led the Human Resources team for Room & Board, a 100% employee-owned (ESOP) business with more than 1,000 staff members and annual revenues in excess of $600 million. Nancy also serves on the Board of Directors for the company.
As an omni-channel retailer of contemporary home furnishings, Room & Board strives to create exceptional experiences for their customers to he
Episode 92: The Importance of Being Coachable
Kevin serves as an Executive Leadership Fellow at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He teaches applied leadership in several graduate courses. His current research topics include leadership coachability, executive derailment, and contemporary talent development. In 2015, he concluded a 34-year corporate career in leadership and talent development at General Electric and Ge
Episode 91: Feedback Reimagined
Peter Berridge is an accomplished coach, facilitator, and author who utilizes the sciences of Positive Psychology and executive coaching to help leaders, teams, and organizations be more engaged and effective. Pete became a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and is faculty with the Center for Coaching in Organizations. He holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MA
Episode 90: AI, Civility and the Future of Work
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., is President and Chief Executive Officer of SHRM. Recently named one of the “Most Influential People Shaping Public Policy” in our nation’s Capital by the Washingtonian Magazine, Mr. Taylor’s career spans more than 20 years as a lawyer and an executive, serving at IAC, Paramount Pictures, Blockbuster Entertainment Group and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, among other org
Episode 89: Valuing Employee Time through Flexible Benefits
Rob Whalen is the Co-Founder and CEO of PTO, Inc. where he started the company with Todd Lucas from his house in Woodinville. He is a serial entrepreneur with a BA in accounting from Seattle University and has over 30 years selling and developing software and hardware products. PTO Exchange was launched at HR Tech Conference in 2017, garnering press from Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Condé Nast
Episode 88: Developing People Through Their Strengths
A talent executive with Fortune 30 experience, Kelly has real-world expertise in all facets of HR including global organizational performance, leadership development, executive/C-Suite talent succession, recruitment, HR technology, and organizational talent management. She has worked in many different business environments for over 25 years.
She currently works for world renowned researcher and au
Episode 87: Employee Happiness Trends 2024
Ty Davidson joins the podcast to discuss the results of Kudoboards “2024 Employee Happiness Trends in the U.S. Based on insights from nearly 600 professionals across Fortune 500 companies, this comprehensive analysis uncovers the transformative influence of gratitude and recognition on workplace dynamics.
Key highlights include:
98% of respondents acknowledged that increased appreciation leads to
Episode 86: Driving Performance Through a Human Centered Strategy
Angela is the founder of Lift Bridge Strategy, a boutique consultancy focused on more personal and human-centered approaches to helping companies grow. Angela is known for building innovative teams to focus on people during periods of high growth, talent shortage, internal shifts in culture due to leadership or ownership transition, and M&A integration.
Prior to founding Lift Bridge, Angela le
Episode 85: How HR Can Leverage AI
Leigha Jansen joins the pod to discuss all things AI in HR! Tune in to learn how to best leverage AI in the workplace and what needs to be done to govern it.
Leigha Jansen, EdD, CPACC, is the director of educational technology at Continued. With degrees from the University of Minnesota and Nova Southeastern, Dr. Jansen brings brains, heart, and over 20 years of experience to the table. Her pass
Episode 84: 100 Conversations in 100 Days
When Casey joined his new company, he made a goal to have 100 conversations in 100 days. Tune in to this episode to learn about his journey and what came out of it.
Guest: Casey Sarver, Vice President Human Resources @ Knutson Construction
linkedin.com/in/casey-sarver-3026073
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Episode 83: Results Only Workplace
Jody Thompson is the Founding Principal of CultureRx®, headquartered in
Minneapolis, MN. Thompson is an engaging domestic and international keynote
presenter on the future workplace and has been featured on the covers of
BusinessWeek, Workforce Management Magazine, HR Magazine, and HR
Executive Magazine, as well as in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, USA
Today, and on Good Morning America, CNBC,
Episode 82: HR Professionals Burnout Too!
Employee burnout has been a hot topic, but what about those responsible for tackling that issue? HR professionals have gone through a lot the past 4 years. Erica Reed joins the show to discuss the reality of HR burnout, and how we tackle the challenge.
Guest: Erica Reed: Founder and CEO @ Leading Well Solutions
https://www.leadingwellsolutions.com/about#:~:text=As%20Founder%20and%20CEO%20of,skil
Episode 81: 2024 Employee Experience Trends Report
Dr. Ben Granger joins the pod to discuss Qualtrics' 2024 Employee Experience Trends Report.
Dr. Benjamin Granger is Chief Workplace Psychologist and Head of EX Advisory Services. He has over a decade of experience building Experience Management (XM) programs across the globe and leads EX thought leadership and research initiatives across Qualtrics and the XM Institute.
Get the report here! http
Episode 80: Non-Linear Career Paths
Kristina Fusella joins the podcast to discuss the benefits of non-linear career paths.
Kristina Jiali Fusella is a purpose-driven, transformational commercial leader with deep expertise in market access, brand marketing, commercial strategy, analytics, and insights across the pharmaceutical sector. Since joining Novo Nordisk, Inc., in 2015, she has progressed through multiple roles to serve as dir
Episode 79: Organizational Effectiveness and Optimizing Skills
Martin Low is the Founder and CEO at On Plane Consulting. He has over 20 years of HR experience at companies like Amazon.com, McKesson, Blue Apron, Cummins, Lear and LABSCO. While at these companies he has implemented programs to improve employee relations, staffing, performance management, benefits and wellness, and supported large employee groups. Martin has a BA in Economics and MA in Human R
Episode 78: Tools Women and Allies Need to Breakthrough
Angel G. Henry is the President of AngelSpeaking, Inc., an Agile Mindset Trainer, an IT Adjunct Instructor, and an author. With over 20 years of IT experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, she is a recognized thought leader in project management and fostering inclusive environments through the Agile Mindset.
Angel's upcoming SHRM and HRCI-accredited webinar: Solving The Talent Re
Episode 77: Workplace Philanthropy w/ Percent Pledge
Percent Pledge's CEO Joel Pollick joins the show to discuss Percent Pledge and Workplace Philanthropy. They recently released a report outlining all of their findings from 16,000 surveys. In this episode we discuss what employers need to offer around philanthropy and what employees desire.
Joel Pollick is the Founder & CEO of Percent Pledge. Board Director at Lymphoma Research Foundation. Joe
Episode 76: What Motivates Gen Z to Learn
Gen Z workers bring high expectations to their workplaces, including how they’re trained. Research has shown that Gen Z values career-advancing learning and development opportunities, expecting companies to invest significantly in professional growth. According to a report by Linkedin Learning, a surprising 67% of L&D pros may not realize what motivates Gen Z to learn.
Administrate's CEO Joh
Episode 75: Leadership Development w/Summer Davies
Summer Davies is an award-winning leadership development expert focused on cultivated thriving work environments where people feel equipped, capable, valued, and connected. It has been my privilege to coach, teach, and study leaders around the world and my unique depth and breadth of experience has given me an unending passion for helping managers bring to life the leader they want to be, and LOVE
Episode 74: Compliance Update - Cannabis, Pay History, Parental Leave & More!
Kevin Mosher joins the show to give us a compliance update on multiple new pieces of legislature. See below for time stamps and topics.
2:00 - Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Federal
8:30 - Parental Leave Update: Minnesota
11:10 - Break Time for Expressing Milk: Minnesota
13:35 - Cannabis is Legal in Minnesota
22:25 - Paid Sick & Safe Leave Update: Minnesota
35:05 - Captive Meeting L
Episode 73: What the HR! Won the SHRM Pinnacle Award!
What the HR! recently won the SHRM Pinnacle award! In this episode we have TCSHRM Past President Becky Lauseng interview us to get a behind the scenes look into the creation of the podcast. Tune in to hear our story from the beginning, and what Jess and I have learned over the 3 years of hosting this podcast.
Guest:
Beck Lauseng - Vice President of People Operations at Onsights (formerly Anno.A
Episode 72: The Benefits of Having Fun in the Workplace
Samantha Lomow joins the show to talk about the benefits of having fun in the workplace.
Throughout her 25+ year career across toys, entertainment, fashion and retail industries, Samantha has led multi-billion-dollar brand portfolios at prominent global companies, most recently at Foot Locker Inc. where she was EVP & Chief Customer Officer. Prior to that, Samantha spent 20 years at Hasbro ri
Episode 71: Onsite Child Care with Hormel Foods
Angie Bissen joins us to discuss Hormel Foods decision to build a 5 million dollar onsite child care center to support their employees and the community. Angie led this project from start to finish and brings a wealth of knowledge and plenty of lessons learned.
Guest:
Angie Bissen
linkedin.com/in/angiebissen
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessieno
Episode 70: Next Great Step: Career Coaching For College Students
Beth Hendler-Grunt is a dynamic leader, adviser, and facilitator who has extensive experience consulting from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms. She has proven success with guiding firms, sales teams and individuals to achieve their sales performance and strategic planning goals.
Ms. Hendler-Grunt has leveraged and scaled her corporate expertise to guide college students to help them succeed when the
Episode 69: HR and Marketing Should Join Hands
Kerry-Ann is a financial services marketer, currently leading the marketing function at JMMB
(Financial) Group, which has operations across the Caribbean, with headquarters in Kingston,
Jamaica, where she’s currently based.
A firm believer in the need to implement creative, out-of-the-box marketing strategies, to drive
deeper customer and employee engagement that create the win for brands; her cur
Episode 68: How to Crush the Candidate Experience
Tianna is a People & Recruiting Leader who has a passion for building diverse teams and high-impact programs that help companies scale. She joined Notion three years ago as their first talent hire leading the Tech Recruiting Team. For the last two years, she’s been leading Talent Ops & Recruiting programs at Notion and has helped the company scale from around 30 to almost 600 employees. Tianna’s a
Episode 67: How to Make Compliance A Little Less Boring
Jennifer Watson joins us to share her experience managing compliance for both big and small companies. Tune in for some tips and tricks on how to make compliance a little less boring!
Guest:
Jennifer Watson: Vice President, Human Resources at LASSO
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifer-watson-b75b5a2a
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Episode 66: The Radical Art of Prioritizing
Brandi Olson believes that you shouldn’t have to choose between doing good, important work, and your own humanity. An expert in organizational design and agility, she teaches leaders how to solve problems and adapt fast with high-performing teams. Brandi is a best-selling author of Real Flow: Break the Burnout Cycle and Unlock High Performance in the New World of Work. Her work has been featured
Episode 65: Spotlyfe: Helping People and Organizations Combat Burnout.
With a passion for building high growth organizations, Josh Schwede has been building and leading teams and strategies to support fast-growing, venture-backed companies in the talent and HR technology space for over two decades. His experience at brands like HireRight, HireVue, QUESocial, and The Marcus Buckingham Company helped prepare him for his most exciting mission yet – co-founding his own
Episode 64: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts with Steve Hunt
Dr. Hunt’s work focuses on using technology to increase workforce agility and performance by improving employees’ capabilities experience, engagement, inclusion, and well-being. An internationally recognized industrial-organizational psychologist, he has helped create human resource solutions that have positively influenced millions of employees working for thousands of companies around the globe.
Episode 63: Quiet Quitting w/ Dr. Ben Granger
Dr. Ben Granger joins the show to discuss Qualtrics' research on Quiet Quitting, and the impact it has on both companies and employees.
Guest: Dr. Benjamin Granger: Chief Workplace Psychologist | Head of EX Advisory Services @ Qualtrics
linkedin.com/in/benjamin-granger-7147991b
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Episode 62: Power of your potential: Gallup StrengthFinder
Keri Bischoff joins the show to talk strengths. Keri is the founder and CEO at Keri Bischoff Consulting and a Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengthsTM coach. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Business Management and Organizational Behavior, and a Master of Arts in Education. Additionally, she is a Wellbeing coach partnered with clinicians and educators at Johns Hopkins.
Episode 61: HR Technology Conference Wrap Up
In this episode I am joined by two HR Technology Consultants, Jeremy Ames and Shannon Klick. The HR Technology Conference recently wrapped up in Las Vegas and we break it down to share some insights from the week.
Guests:
Jeremy Ames: linkedin.com/in/jeremyames1
Shannon Klick: linkedin.com/in/shannonklickpmp
Advisor Collective: https://advisorcollectiveinc.wildapricot.org/
Hosts:
Mike Thul
Episode 60: Designing a Purpose Filled Workspace
Doug Shapiro is the VP of Research and Insight at OFS. He joins the show to discuss how to create workplace spaces that promote creativity. He has over 17 years of collaborating with world class designers on crafting products and strategies for more human centered spaces.
Guest: Doug Shapiro, VP of Research and Insights at OFS
Imagine a Place Podcast: https://ofs.com/imagine-a-place/podcast
link
Episode 59: Modern Child Care Benefits for Today’s Working Parent
Brittney Barrett is an entrepreneur and marketing leader, with an expertise in go-to-market and growth strategies at early stage startups. She is currently a Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Kinside, the child care benefit for working parents. Kinside recently raised a 12M Series A led by Wellington Access Ventures and Magnify Ventures to expand Kinside’s reach to over 10,000 employers nati
Episode 58: Help Employees Navigate Financial Decisions with LearnLux
Rebecca Liebman is the founder of LearnLux, an award-winning workplace financial wellbeing program that blends digital education, interactive tools and access to unbiased Financial Advisors. Her company has raised funding from Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures and Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff. Rebecca has been honored with accolades such as the 2016 Forbes “30 Under 30” list and LearnLux is a Fast C
Episode 57: Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Greg Johnson (he/him) is the Sr. Director of Human Resources, Talent & Strategy at Children’s Minnesota, and a member of the PRIDE employee resource group leadership team.
Greg has been at Children’s Minnesota for over two years and leads the Talent Acquisition, Human Resources Business Partners & HR Consultants, and Organizational Development & Learning functions. Through his leadership, he is ch
Episode 56: Are HR Vendors Bullies?
Kimberly Carroll, Managing Partner at IA joins the show to discuss some of the “bullying” tactics that they observe between clients and technology providers, and potential solutions for healthier, long-term relationships.
Guest: Kimberly Carroll: Managing Principal at IA
linkedin.com/in/kimberlycarroll1
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
Episode 55: Chasing Failure w/ Ryan Leak
Ryan Leak is an author, speaker, executive coach, and podcaster. He’s known for two documentaries: The Surprise Wedding & Chasing Failure.
Ryan is the son of a preacher man that grew up in the church with a marketplace passion. Today, Ryan’s career is split 50% speaking in churches and 50% doing executive coaching and speaking in Corporate America through his company The Ryan Leak Group, LLC. Ryan
Episode 54: Coaching is For Everyone
Learning Journeys, The International Center of Coaching is recognized as one of the coaching industry's most invigorating coaching learning centers. We believe that your coaching education should be a journey into your own wisdom and creativity.
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Episode 53: ”Always On” Employee Listening Strategy
Claire Schmidt is the founder and CEO of AllVoices, a platform that enables employees to anonymously report workplace issues directly to leadership. Before founding AllVoices, Claire served as Vice President of Technology and Innovation at 20th Century Fox. Previously, Claire led social impact at Thrive Market, an e-commerce company focused on making healthy food accessible and affordable. Claire
Episode 52: Well-Being in the Workplace
Nikki has a passion and gift for making well-being practices available and accessible to students of all levels. She holds a degree in Kinesiology, Movement Science, is a Certified Personal Trainer, ERYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher) Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and has over 10 years experience in Leadership, Management, Leading Yoga Teacher Trainings and incorporating her studies of
Episode 51: Financial Wellness in The Workplace w/ Pete the Planner
Peter Dunn a.k.a. Pete the Planner® is an award-winning financial expert. He’s a USA TODAY columnist, the author of ten books, and the CEO and Founder of Your Money Line. Pete is also the host of a popular radio show and podcast The Pete the Planner Show, and appears regularly on TV and nationally syndicated radio programs. Pete is regularly considered one of the foremost experts on financial well
Episode 50: How to Prepare for Your Next Career Move
Skywater Search Director Andrea Anderson has over 15 years in HR and Recruiting. During this episode we learn some tips and tricks on how to crush the interview process and land your dream job. She also gives us an inside look into a recruiting firm and how they help their clients navigate "The Great Resignation".
Andrea’s Profile
linkedin.com/in/andreaandersonsphr
Website
skywatersearch.com (C
Episode 49: Smart Growth: The S-Curve Of Learning
Whitney Johnson joins the show to discuss her new book "Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company". Join us to dive deep into the S-Curve of Learning!
Whitney is an innovation and disruption theorist and former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst. She is the author of the bestselling Build an A Team, the critically-acclaimed Disrupt Yourself, and is a frequent contributor to H
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