This HR Life: Recent Episodes
Bianca McCann and Brett Addis
This HR Life by B & B Express brings you the unique perspectives and stories of HR practitioners that make a difference for people at work. We cover topics relevant to HR professionals and business leaders. Our 20-minute shows cover a variety of HR topics including human experience, talent management, strategic HR, organizational culture, diversity equity and inclusion, leadership, HR technology, and change in the workplace. Hosted by Bianca E McCann, MHRIR (@HRLightning), and Brett Addis (@brett_j_addis). Bianca and Brett have been kicking around in HR for a long time, but this is their very first self-hosted podcast.
In this episode, we talk with Kat Steinmetz, former Head of HR at Burning Man, now Principal at venture capital firm Initialized Capital. Kat shares the variety of responsibilities and growth she experienced at Burning Man and lessons from her current role as a principal at Initialized Capital advising on talent and culture to founders and portfolio companies.
Find Kat on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katsteinmetz/
Learn more about Initialized Capital: https://www.linkedin.com/company/initialized-capital/
Employees have capabilities and aspirations that go far beyond their current job descriptions, but their talent is often untapped. In this episode, Edie Goldberg, author ofThe Inside Gig, discusses how to optimize and energize your workforce by deploying the skills of the employees you already have inside your firm across organizational boundaries. Edie shares how unlocking the hidden skills within your organization keeps your employees happy and engaged, improves your organization’s agility, and lowers your costs.
Edie Goldberg, PhD, is the president of E.L. Goldberg & Associates in Menlo Park, California. She has specialized in talent management and organization development for more than thirty years.
Read more: Check out The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity on Amazon today! https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Gig-Boundaries-Unleashes-Organizational/dp/1928055605
For the past year and a half, HR Teams were asked to combat with the pandemic, decreasing employee moral, and social and political unrest. In this episode, Dave Hanrahan, Chief Human Resources Officer at Eventbrite, discusses managing burnout and stress, personally and as a leader.
In this episode, social media guru and HR practitioner Jasen Hayes shares his perspective on career transitioning. Listen in to hear why people transition careers and best practices to employ when transitioning.
In this episode, Dave Burchfield, Director of People Strategy at McDonald's, shares his perspective on delivering the best employee experience to front-line fast-food workers who face high workplace stress, high turnover, and competing retail work opportunities. Listen in to hear lessons on supporting a workforce spanning five generations, building a strong talent network, and training employees to meet a variety of modern customer needs.
In this episode, Aaron Ziff shares his perspective on the future of HR tech, data, and AI. Aaron is the personal friend and former colleague of Brett Addis and currently leads global HRIS at Lenovo.
We sat down with author Maureen Devine-Ahl to discuss her book, How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women. Maureen explores inspiring stories, cautionary tales, and takeaway lessons from around the world on what it will take to build a more gender-balanced future, and, in doing so, quickly learns that empowering women empowers humanity.
Not only does Maureen highlight the power and potential of building an inclusive society with women at the helm, she also provides ways in which all of us can support this endeavor in our every day lives.
Find Maureen's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Matriarchy-Promise-Prioritizing/dp/1636766072.
In this episode, we chat with Ron Storn about innovation at work! Ron Storn is a well-respected people leader with extensive HR leadership experience at KeepTruckin, Zume, Lyft, Facebook, and Google. Join us to hear lessons and stories on embedding innovation in culture, innovation during a pandemic, and innovation across teams. We promise not to be boring!