Twenty-six years in benefits gives you a particular kind of clarity. Rae Shanahan knows what the industry got right, and she’s direct about what it got wrong. Now Chief Strategy Officer at Businessolver, she comes to this conversation with research and the research tells a story most HR teams aren’t ready to hear. Businessolver’s annual…
Gemma Versace is Chief Client Officer at X-Team, where she works with organizations navigating the gap between what their AI talent strategy looks like on paper and what it looks like in practice. She comes to this conversation with research, and the research tells a story most organizations aren’t ready to hear. X-Team surveyed over…
Tameka Vasquez grew up in tech, absorbed the ethos of moving fast and breaking things, and assumed that was just how work operated. It took years of consulting outside the industry, with leaders in finance, real estate, and manufacturing, to show her how rare that tolerance actually was. Most leaders, she found, can handle “change”…
Know Your HR History Years ago, there weren’t any HR influencers. Nobody was out on social media talking about inclusion, change management, compensation, or even AI. Then, one day, everybody was there. You had Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Josh Bersin, and even Corporate Natalie. But how did we get here? It started with a small…
Andrew Norcross didn’t get pushed out of tech because he wasn’t good enough. He got pushed out because he refused to pretend that a pattern-recognition machine is a replacement for an experienced engineer. For 20 years, Norcross was the person companies called when the stakes were too high to get it wrong: NASA, the New…
The Very Daunting Data On Motherhood Sometimes the mom talk gets confusing for someone like me. I wanted to be a mom at times, but the world had other plans for my adulthood. I’ve made peace with my life, and I have plenty of joy. But here’s the question that keeps coming back. Am I…
The Grift That Won’t Die: Common Life Advice from Influencers by Laurie Ruettimann The most dangerous advice in your feed right now is coming from someone who believes they’re helping you, charges for the privilege, and never had to verify a single claim they make. You know the type. The life coach with a course…
Is the world a vampire, or is it full of abundance? Maybe it’s both. We are in the middle of a tough, terrible news cycle. And, yet, I ran this year’s London Marathon and enjoyed myself. I want to tell you about it. Important caveat: It’s not my first marathon, and I was not aiming…
Scott Eblin and I have known of each other for almost 20 years, and it took us this long to actually sit down and talk. Worth the wait. Scott is an executive coach, bestselling author of The Next Level and Overworked and Overwhelmed, and a former faculty member at Georgetown’s leadership coaching program. But what…
Amari Leigh runs Admin by Amari, a virtual assistant (VA) and social media agency that has worked with over 100 businesses across 17 countries and 19 U.S. states. Every client is sex positive and queer-affirming. That wasn’t a calculated brand decision. It’s just who kept showing up. She studied sociology, volunteered at sex worker charities…
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