The Hacking HR Podcast - Episode 242
Interview with Andy Hooper – Andy is the President at &pizza. He worked in the areas of People and Operations and now he leads his own company.

Interview with Andy Hooper – Andy is the President at &pizza. He worked in the areas of People and Operations and now he leads his own company.
Interview with Cassandra Rose – Cassandra is Partner at Meritarc and has over 15 yeas of experience in HR. She is passionate about topics like Mental Health, Strategy, DEI, Wellbeing, and Employee Experience.
Interview with Laura Hambley – Laura is the Co-Founder and President at Work EvOHlution, partner of Humance. She has 20 years of experience working in Organizational Psychology, Culture, Future of Work, specially in Remote Work.
Interview with Zahira Sughra Zainuddin – Zahira has held many roles in diverse PETRONAS businesses throughout her career includingpetrochemical, oil trading, LNG and gas, upstream, corporate strategy, and mega-projectmanagement. She was attached to Group HR of PETRONAS and led the roleto drive thetransformation of HR and the talent ecosystem. Zahira is passionate to humanize the workplace, bycreating a compassionate, enabling, truly diverse and inclusive environment. She has an affectionfor poet...
Interview with Nicole Hazard – Nicole is a HRleader dedicated to creating work environments where purpose and data rule theday. She has depth leading global teams and projects in the areas of people analytics, talentmanagement, M&A, workforce transformation, and corporate culture. Nicole has published perspectives on topics ranging from closing the skills gap, big data in HR, and next gen talent thathave been featured in Fortune, the Huffington Post, HR Tech, and other publications.
Interview with Monique Yong – Monique is the Group CHRO at Columbia Asia. She has several years of experience leading HR. Monique is passionate about HR and Business Strategy. She is engaged with the continuous changes in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sector.
Interview with Arnobio Morelix – Arnobio is the Co-Founder and CIO at Sirius Education. He has passionately work to change and evolve the learning sector. Arnobio create a space for organizations and people inside of them to help their learning spaces grow.
Interview with Harrison Kim – Harrison is the CEO of Pavestep, a SaaS solution that makes performance management simple and effective. He is a former McKinsey consultant and a former private equity investor specializing in the human capital management sector. He founded Pavestep to help leaders develop and retain their biggest asset-talent.
Interview with Lela Topuria – Lela is the Head of the HR Department at FINCA Bank. She has led HR teams for several years. She enjoys working in the Performance Management sector.
Interview with John O’Duinn – John is the Senior Strategist at Civic Actions. He has worked in Technology, in Non-profit and multinational companies. Also, he has experience working in Government, as part of President Obama team in Digital Service. John also wrote the book “Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together while Physically Apart”.
Interview with Wendy Rentschler – Wendy is the Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at BMC Software. She has several years of experience leading Corporate Social Responsibility, DEI, ESG, Philanthropy. She incorporates her social ideas into companies from the corporate perspective.
Interview with Michelle Witherspoon – Michelle is the Director Chief of Staff Business Operations at Cisco. She has several years of experience in Innovation, Culture, Organizational Development and DEI.
Interview with Bernd Zimmermann – Bernd is a Senior HR & OD Advisor and Interims Manager. He has years of experience in Organizational Development, Leadership, Innovation, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Interview with Sergio Mastrogiovanni – Sergio is a senior information technology executive, entrepreneur, AI evangelist and data storyteller with career success leveraging AI and advanced data analytics to boost sustainable revenue and manage change through digital transformation and continuous improvement. He teaches Intelligent Automation at NYU and is the Head of Data and Innovation at Nubiral. His passion is about making data accessible to people.
Interview with Manisha Gupta – Manisha is the Global Head of Products and HCM Analytics at Oracle. She has also led game changing responsibilities in companies like Ebay and LinkedIn.
Interview with Mary Brown – Mary is the Transformation and Culture Lead at Spectrum Health. She uses design thinking and Futuring in the areas of organizational transformation and change. The Grand Rapids Business Journal selected her as one of the 50 Most Influential Women of West Michigan 2016.
Interview with Talie Schwager – Tallie is the Head of People Operations at CoinDesk. She refers to herself as a non-typical HR person, and has a non-traditional philosophy and maverick approach. Tallie is empowered by the opportunity to make an impact on high-growth startups and loves learning from every moment.
Interview with Borja Burguillos – Borja has more than 14 years of experience as an HR Professional, Management Consultant and in Global HR Strategy corporate roles. He has a holistic vision about the HR function. Borja has experience in Compensation & Benefits, Rewards, M&A, Workforce staffing and Transformation projects.
Interview with Debra Corey – Debra is a highly experienced and award-winning HR leader, consultant, world-class speaker, and three-time best-selling author who has been named one of the top 101 global employee engagement influencers. After more than 20 years she inspires by helping others develop and deliver HR strategies in a rebellious way, pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo to truly drive employee engagement.
Interview with Christiane Bisanzio – Christiane has more than 20 years of experience in Global HR and D&I leadership roles across various sectors, ranging from Financial Services to FMCG.
Interview with Anila Brown – Anila is the Head of Organizational Development and Learning at Harris; with a passion for helping people reach their full potential by coaching them to think differently. She is a talent strategy, leadership development, and learning professional with over 20 years of experience in employee and organization development.
Interview with Steve Rader – Steve is a speaker/consultant on open innovation, open talent, and the future of work.Through Crowd Resources Consulting LLC, he provides organizations the resources and knowledge for leveraging the crowd-based expertise and solutions required to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving global economy. Steve draws upon his 30 years of experience at NASA where he has worked to formulate and lead open innovation efforts over the past 7 years.
Interview with Barbara Zych – Barbara is a data-driven employer branding and HRtech evangelist. My mission is to match people's science with business for better results and work innovations. She has more than 15 years of experience, including 100 Fortune 500 companies consulting, and over 200 employer branding projects implemented, 7 books published on OD, 16 HR tools produced, 3 HR startups set up and hundreds of students educated.
Interview with Mary Glowacka – Mary is a talent & leadership development specialist working to improve peoples' careers through lifelong learning. Mary worked across many industries including Professional & Financial Services, Consulting and Technology to help them transform L&D strategies whilst harnessing latest thought leadership & technologies.
Interview with Yvonne Wolf – Yvonne is a strategic, operational, and compassionate global People + Culture leader, uniquely prepared to help organizations transform and thrive, especially during times of uncertainty and transition. She has held several c-suite and senior global HR leader roles for many companies, and is currently Head of HR for Gates MRI. Her broad industry experience, and expertise in leadership development, organization design, DEI, and culture alignment, equip her to create a...
Interview with Desiree Pascual – Désirée has led People Operations at small, mid-sized and large companies in the Digital Health and Healthcare industry. She is committed to curating joyful, resilient and psychologically safe workplace cultures where employees are empowered to do their best work.
Interview with Mikaela Kiner – Mikaela is a native Seattleite who spent fifteen years in HR leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, Amazon, PopCap Games, and Redfin. In 2015 she founded Reverb, providing flexible HR for growing companies. She is passionate about inclusive culture and published her first book Female Firebrands in 2020.
Interview with Alex Shubat – Alex is an entrepreneur and is the co-founder and the CEO of Espresa. He sits on advisory boards for Santa Clara University and the University of Toronto.
Interview with Stacey Lewis – Stacey is the Creator/Chief Influencer of HRInterrupted, an organization for human resource influencers who unapologetically interrupt historical workplace ideologies/practices through inspiration and insight. By day, she serves as the CHRO for the Port of Long Beach, the second-busiest seaport in the United States. Stacey has over 30 years of professional HR experience, both in the private and public sectors.
Interview with Shameek Bose – Shameek is an imaginative brand strategist and fundraiser with a reputation for building and developing organizations by finding value in unlikely places. As a business development executive and strategist with a truly global perspective, he has devoted his time at the World Economic Forum to help businesses scale while making a positive impact on our world.