“that we opened. I went in as director of operations so that I could get some operational experience, went back to corporate, opened a few more hotels, and then had never been a director of HR in the field. So went back i...”
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“off, I lived in Michigan at the time. My joke is that they don't let you leave the state of Michigan if you don't work for one of the big three. So I worked at Ford Motor Company, survived the automotive downturn, and re...”
“workplace, and then also bring back to the classroom real-world experience that not every graduate student gets to see. So I had a great time there. I've opened a nonprofit to support primarily women escaping domestic ab...”
“company based in Atlanta that's been growing about 20 to 30% annually for the last 2 decades. And so I'm part of the leadership team that is there to help scale the culture, build out sustainable people processes, and ki...”
“Yeah. Um, so the resort opened around 50 years ago, so that was before Reed Hastings stepped in. And just like in tech startups, we've had to move quickly, be agile, innovative, and to do that to save the failing resort....”
“If you are experiencing high out-of-state competition, that is another aspect that you would be able to get a training grant from. And if your company is located in a high unemployment area, there's a lot of complexities...”
“So fortunately, California is not the only state that provides training grants to employers. Other states including Texas, New York, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida all o...”
“but also as a new organization. And that's where the HR came, because we decided to have a very soft integration. So it was not only follow us and you apply for our process and system. We sit with a team of GE that becam...”
“Well, the surprise I have, you know, I clearly am a baby boomer. My surprise was how well the baby boomers and Gen Xers took to it. I was not the type of person who ever expected to be able to work from home. I mean, I d...”
“You've scaled across a lot of countries. What strategies have you used to maintain an employee-empowered organization while expanding across geographical boundaries?”
“Sure. So in my last role at PagerDuty, I was there during 2020, which obviously in the United States, we had a lot of things going on at that time. There was the pandemic. And what was happening with that, as well as som...”
“Absolutely. And thanks for having me. So I feel pretty fortunate over the last 20-plus years to work for some pretty impressive companies. When I graduated from college, I had a bachelor's in accounting and business admi...”