Angela is the founder of Lift Bridge Strategy, a boutique consultancy focused on more personal and human-centered approaches to helping companies grow. Angela is known for building innovative teams to focus on people during periods of high growth, talent shortage, internal shifts in culture due to leadership or ownership transition, and M&A integration. Prior to founding Lift Bridge, Angela led teams focused on talent and the team member experience at Marvin. Angela also held multiple...

Leigha Jansen joins the pod to discuss all things AI in HR! Tune in to learn how to best leverage AI in the workplace and what needs to be done to govern it.    Leigha Jansen, EdD, CPACC, is the director of educational technology at Continued. With degrees from the University of Minnesota and Nova Southeastern, Dr. Jansen brings brains, heart, and over 20 years of experience to the table. Her passion is leveraging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), to deliver top-notch...

When Casey joined his new company, he made a goal to have 100 conversations in 100 days. Tune in to this episode to learn about his journey and what came out of it.   Guest: Casey Sarver, Vice President Human Resources @ Knutson Construction linkedin.com/in/casey-sarver-3026073   Hosts: Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey   INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected]. Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of...

Jody Thompson is the Founding Principal of CultureRx®, headquartered inMinneapolis, MN. Thompson is an engaging domestic and international keynotepresenter on the future workplace and has been featured on the covers ofBusinessWeek, Workforce Management Magazine, HR Magazine, and HRExecutive Magazine, as well as in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, USAToday, and on Good Morning America, CNBC, MSNBC and CNN. She has coauthored two best-selling books on the modern workplace and...

Employee burnout has been a hot topic, but what about those responsible for tackling that issue? HR professionals have gone through a lot the past 4 years. Erica Reed joins the show to discuss the reality of HR burnout, and how we tackle the challenge.   Guest: Erica Reed: Founder and CEO @ Leading Well Solutions https://www.leadingwellsolutions.com/about#:~:text=As%20Founder%20and%20CEO%20of,skills%2C%20and%20self%2Dleadership.   Hosts: Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael Jessie Novey...

Dr. Ben Granger joins the pod to discuss Qualtrics' 2024 Employee Experience Trends Report.  Dr. Benjamin Granger is Chief Workplace Psychologist and Head of EX Advisory Services. He has over a decade of experience building Experience Management (XM) programs across the globe and leads EX thought leadership and research initiatives across Qualtrics and the XM Institute.   Get the report here! https://www.qualtrics.com/ebooks-guides/2024-ex-trends-report/   Guest: Ben Granger: Chief Workplace...

Kristina Fusella joins the podcast to discuss the benefits of non-linear career paths. Kristina Jiali Fusella is a purpose-driven, transformational commercial leader with deep expertise in market access, brand marketing, commercial strategy, analytics, and insights across the pharmaceutical sector. Since joining Novo Nordisk, Inc., in 2015, she has progressed through multiple roles to serve as director of strategic planning and executive support for strategy and rare disease where she ensures...

Martin Low is the Founder and CEO at On Plane Consulting.  He has over 20 years of HR experience at companies like Amazon.com, McKesson, Blue Apron, Cummins, Lear and LABSCO.  While at these companies he has implemented programs to improve employee relations, staffing, performance management, benefits and wellness, and supported large employee groups. Martin has a BA in Economics and MA in Human Resources from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.  Martin can be contacted at...

Angel G. Henry is the President of AngelSpeaking, Inc., an Agile Mindset Trainer, an IT Adjunct Instructor, and an author. With over 20 years of IT experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, she is a recognized thought leader in project management and fostering inclusive environments through the Agile Mindset. Angel's upcoming SHRM and HRCI-accredited webinar: Solving The Talent Retention Challenge: Leveraging an Agile Mindset for Employee Engagement    Link to...

Percent Pledge's CEO Joel Pollick joins the show to discuss Percent Pledge and Workplace Philanthropy. They recently released a report outlining all of their findings from 16,000 surveys. In this episode we discuss what employers need to offer around philanthropy and what employees desire.  Joel Pollick is the Founder & CEO of Percent Pledge. Board Director at Lymphoma Research Foundation. Joel grew up in philanthropy (Marc Pollick founded The Giving Back Fund in 1997), which drove his...

Gen Z workers bring high expectations to their workplaces, including how they’re trained. Research has shown that Gen Z values career-advancing learning and development opportunities, expecting companies to invest significantly in professional growth. According to a report by Linkedin Learning, a surprising 67% of L&D pros may not realize what motivates Gen Z to learn.   Administrate's CEO John Peebles joins the podcast to discuss his findings and how their system has helped close the...

Summer Davies is an award-winning leadership development expert focused on cultivated thriving work environments where people feel equipped, capable, valued, and connected. It has been my privilege to coach, teach, and study leaders around the world and my unique depth and breadth of experience has given me an unending passion for helping managers bring to life the leader they want to be, and LOVE leading.   Guest: Summer Davies M.Ed.: Leadership Development...

Kevin Mosher joins the show to give us a compliance update on multiple new pieces of legislature. See below for time stamps and topics.   2:00 - Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Federal 8:30 - Parental Leave Update: Minnesota 11:10 - Break Time for Expressing Milk: Minnesota 13:35 - Cannabis is Legal in Minnesota 22:25 - Paid Sick & Safe Leave Update: Minnesota 35:05 - Captive Meeting Law: Minnesota 42:00 - Pay History Law: Minnesota   Guest: Kevin Mosher: HR Attorney. Partner at...

What the HR! recently won the SHRM Pinnacle award! In this episode we have TCSHRM Past President Becky Lauseng interview us to get a behind the scenes look into the creation of the podcast. Tune in to hear our story from the beginning, and what Jess and I have learned over the 3 years of hosting this podcast.    Guest: Beck Lauseng - Vice President of People Operations at Onsights (formerly Anno.Ai) linkedin.com/in/becky-lauseng   Hosts: Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael Jessie Novey...

Samantha Lomow joins the show to talk about the benefits of having fun in the workplace.  Throughout her 25+ year career across toys, entertainment, fashion and retail industries, Samantha has led multi-billion-dollar brand portfolios at prominent global companies, most recently at Foot Locker Inc. where she was EVP & Chief Customer Officer.  Prior to that, Samantha spent 20 years at Hasbro rising to President of Branded Entertainment, and during that time she helped prove Hasbro’s growth...

Angie Bissen joins us to discuss Hormel Foods decision to build a 5 million dollar onsite child care center to support their employees and the community. Angie led this project from start to finish and brings a wealth of knowledge and plenty of lessons learned.   Guest: Angie Bissen linkedin.com/in/angiebissen   Hosts: Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey   INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected]. Twin Cities Society For Human...

Beth Hendler-Grunt is a dynamic leader, adviser, and facilitator who has extensive experience consulting from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms. She has proven success with guiding firms, sales teams and individuals to achieve their sales performance and strategic planning goals. Ms. Hendler-Grunt has leveraged and scaled her corporate expertise to guide college students to help them succeed when they graduate. This is based on a clear understanding of the career development process and the...

Kerry-Ann is a financial services marketer, currently leading the marketing function at JMMB(Financial) Group, which has operations across the Caribbean, with headquarters in Kingston,Jamaica, where she’s currently based. A firm believer in the need to implement creative, out-of-the-box marketing strategies, to drivedeeper customer and employee engagement that create the win for brands; her current role asGroup Chief Marketing Officer includes the overall leadership of marketing strategy...

Tianna is a People & Recruiting Leader who has a passion for building diverse teams and high-impact programs that help companies scale. She joined Notion three years ago as their first talent hire leading the Tech Recruiting Team. For the last two years, she’s been leading Talent Ops & Recruiting programs at Notion and has helped the company scale from around 30 to almost 600 employees. Tianna’s also helped both Lyft and GitHub in their hyper-growth phases as a recruiting leader. She...

Jennifer Watson joins us to share her experience managing compliance for both big and small companies. Tune in for some tips and tricks on how to make compliance a little less boring!   Guest: Jennifer Watson: Vice President, Human Resources at LASSO LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifer-watson-b75b5a2a   Hosts: Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey   INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email [email protected] Twin Cities Society For Human...

Brandi Olson believes that you shouldn’t have to choose between doing good, important work, and your own humanity.  An expert in organizational design and agility,  she teaches leaders how to solve problems and adapt fast with high-performing teams. Brandi is a best-selling author of Real Flow: Break the Burnout Cycle and Unlock High Performance in the New World of Work. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, and Inc. Magazine. She is the founder of Real Work Done and lives in...

With a passion for building high growth organizations, Josh Schwede has been building and leading teams and strategies to support fast-growing, venture-backed companies in the talent and HR technology space for over two decades.  His experience at brands like HireRight, HireVue, QUESocial, and The Marcus Buckingham Company helped prepare him for his most exciting mission yet – co-founding his own work technology platform, SPOTLYFE which is tackling a very human problem – helping people and...

Dr. Hunt’s work focuses on using technology to increase workforce agility and performance by improving employees’ capabilities experience, engagement, inclusion, and well-being. An internationally recognized industrial-organizational psychologist, he has helped create human resource solutions that have positively influenced millions of employees working for thousands of companies around the globe.   Dr. Hunt's new book "Talent Tectonics" -...