In this episode of Punk Rock HR, I’m joined by Sean Stowers, CEO and chief learning officer of WeLearn. Sean is a part of the creative team of learning professionals on a mission to build better humans through learning. In this conversation, Sean and I discuss his belief in modernizing the learning experience to be…
My guest today is Sara Martin. She’s the CEO of WELCOA, the Wellness Council of America. WELCOA is one of the country’s most respected resources for building high-performing, healthy workplaces. In this episode, Sara and I talk about creating a psychologically safe workplace, about work and families, how stories impact us, and where the future…
My guest today is Dr. Candace Steele Flippin. She is a communications executive, a TEDx speaker and the author of the fantastic book Get Your Career in SHAPE: A Five-Step Guide to Achieve the Success You Need, Want, and Deserve. Dr. Candace and I talk about her game-changing career framework, the generational changes in work…
My guest today is Karina Monesson. She’s a writer, speaker and the senior manager of human insights, research and advisory, at UKG, the Ultimate Kronos Group. Karina joins us to talk about her research into megatrends, specifically gray-collar workers. In this episode, we talk about who these workers are, how they contribute to the economy…
Welcome to a bonus episode of Punk Rock HR! In this special episode, my guest is Lance Haun, vice president of market insights at The Starr Conspiracy and one of my oldest friends. This episode comes from a webinar where we talked about an exciting concept — the reverse mullet. Lance describes a traditional mullet…
Back in the day, people only lived until they were 50 or 60 years old. Their paths were pretty much the same. Be born, possibly get an education, and definitely go to work. For the lucky ones, they’d retire. The map of living has fundamentally changed as people live longer, some to 100 and beyond,…
My guest on this episode is Donald Thompson Jr., co-founder and CEO of The Diversity Movement, a full-service DEI consultancy with specialized technology. They have built a community and a team that includes business strategists, nationally recognized TEDx speakers and certified diversity executives. Donald and I talk about things that organizations do right and wrong…
Today, my guests are Joey Price and Lars Schmidt, good friends of the show who you may have heard on past episodes. Today, they are here to talk about my favorite subject—what the heck is going on with SHRM?! For those not in the know, that’s the Society of Human Resource Management. They fired off…
People think HR is there to help workers, no matter how often you tell them otherwise. It’s not like employees are stupid. Intellectually, they know HR is there to do two things: Pay people and protect the company from lawsuits. Everything else is fake-work created by an industry of consultants who realized that a bigger…
Today’s guest is the founder and CEO of The Starr Conspiracy, Bret Starr. The Starr Conspiracy is “is a weird mashup of analyst and marketing folks and consultants who have been working specifically in what we now call the work tech industry, which we used to call, back in 1999, the HR software industry; HR…
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