The Challenger Podcast: Recent Episodes
Brennie Pellegrini
We interview top Human Resources, People, and Benefits professionals to hear how they support their employees and improve their organizations. Guests include VPs of Fortune 100 companies and CHROs of 5,000+ employee companies.
In this group conversation, we're joined by Misti Molitoriss who is the Senior Manager of HR at DirecTV, and Bob Yeager who's the Director of Compensation at SunRun. We discuss their fascinating variety in roles as well as their takeaways from management in the Covid era.
Paul Falcone and I discuss how conflict is resolved through HR, the human side to hiring, and what makes the best manager. Paul is an HR pro and author whose background spans financial services, healthcare, and entertainment.
Ekta Vyas and I had a fascinating conversation about her incredible career, including 14 years at the Stanford Medical Center and now as the Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer at UC Davis Health. Since last year, she's helped lead UC Davis to be a leader in testing the COVID-19 vaccine and now rolling it out. I hope you enjoy this episode!
Rob Lopez shares his insider-view on the unique culture of Chewy. In our conversation we discuss employee satisfaction and motivation in the covid era, customer relationships, and some of Rob's career highlights.
Ted Fleming joins the podcast to share his expansive knowledge of employee well-being, work fulfillment, and values alignment. Ted is the Head of Talent Development for the Fortune 10 company CVS/Aetna. We had a blast during our conversation and I hope you enjoy your discussion too.
You can find his book here: https://tedfleming.com/
John DiNome joins the podcast to share his unique background coming from law and into the HR world. He discusses what HR and managers most often miss and the importance of consistency when it comes to policy writing.
John Petrov joins the podcast to share his fascinating background and what lead him to be the CHRO of CHI Saint Joseph health system. I hope you enjoy this episode.
Vinny Catalano joins the podcast to share with us his perspective on Covid-19 and its impact on HR people, how the work environment has shifted, and his super power. Vinny is the Senior Vice President of Employee Benefits at Lockton.