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“the spinoff to Cerberus, 51%, back coming up on 20 years ago already. And there I supported, I really led the transition from, you know, 100% owned by GM to a standalone company. And I supported directly most of the line...”

“and I worked with them for over 20 years in different roles, in different geographies, different industries. In early 2018, I left GE and went to Whirlpool in a very regional role. Before that, in GE, I had done a lot of...”

“I had a role— there's two occasions I can reflect on at my former company, Genentech. It was such a great place. And one role was I was asked to take on, or invited to apply for a job, and it was called College Programs....”

“young company in terms of it had been around for about 20 years, and the average age of the, of the employee base was in the late 20s, early 30s at that time. So it was a whole bunch of people who were super excited to b...”

“development initiative to really help revitalize a local community in South Carolina, which is where I was living at the time. And we were trying to do this really complex framework around, you know, using new market tax...”

“I helped build entities in China and led supply chain realignments while establishing core leadership fundamentals. Working in a private equity-backed environment was humbling. I had to relearn how to influence and deliv...”

“the late '90s. I had a multitude of companies that I was helping scale and grow. Probably the best known company today from that era was NVIDIA. I had a chance to work with NVIDIA before they were NVIDIA, prior to the co...”

“What's a leadership move or initiative that you've repeated in more than one company because it just works?”

“Yeah, thanks, Dave. So yeah, my name is Emma Woodthorpe. I'm the Chief People Officer of Brooks Automation, based just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. As you can tell, I've got a really good Boston accent. I actually m...”

“Yeah, an example is a stealth startup at a public company. They had been in the Workday suite, but the stealth startup was only 250 people, and so it didn't have clear ownership of the suite, right? We all know that Work...”

“Group where I am today. Started my 25th year today. And this has been a wonderful place to work. I've held multiple roles where I sit now in tech systems in Allegis Group. I have a dual reporting role to the CEO and one...”

“We've been really fortunate over the past 6 years to grow our business from $500 million to $2 billion. And inside of that growth, we were acquired by Hitachi. And so that's a lot of evolution for one company over 6 year...”