Joining Gianna today is Adriana Arian, HR Director at Brain Box AI. Brain Box AI is Great Place to Work certified which Adriana credits to her team’s HR strategies and inclusive work environment.  Adriana shares her values of organically recruiting team members via diversity, providing everyone with shared opportunities, and highlighting an individual's skills and talents as the most important quality as opposed to the accent of one’s voice. Adriana emphasizes adopting empathy when working...

Recruiting is expensive. In fact, some experts place the cost of hiring a candidate at three times that candidate’s annual salary. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, then, that businesses that recruit poorly often don’t last long. So how do you do it right? In this episode of the Vita Talks podcast, Gianna is joined by Samantha Bateman, the founder and talent acquisition leader at Integria Consulting, to figure that out. As Samantha explains, a structured approach is key - So is treating...

In this episode of the Vita Talks Podcast, Gianna is joined by Leigh-Ann Ing, the head of wellness at Gowling WLG, a Canadian law firm with over 1,500 legal professionals. Leigh-Ann discusses the firm’s evolving wellness strategy, which centers compassion and self-kindness. These values are often overlooked in the high-pressure environment of the legal industry, which instead often prioritizes performance and perfectionism.  Leigh-Ann shares how she developed this strategy, a process that...

In this episode of The Vita Talks Podcast, Nicole Piggott, president and founder of Synclusiv, a DEI consulting firm joins the podcast. Nicole underscores the importance of prioritizing inclusion to foster diversity in the workplace and shares a case study from a remote Canadian operation where cultural awareness and culturally relevant therapists for employees drastically improved retention and reduced absenteeism. Nicole discusses the evolution of DEI initiatives, noting that only truly...

In this inaugural episode of The Vita Talks Podcast, host Gianna Ricciardi welcomes Mandy Di Lazzaro, managing partner of Axxel HR, to discuss the often overlooked yet crucial process of employee onboarding. Mandy highlights the critical role of structured and consistent onboarding in employee retention and engagement, sharing a case study about a retail company that significantly improved its retention rates and employee satisfaction by revamping its onboarding process. Mandy explains the...