Send us a text Summary: Carlee Wolfe is an insightful people and culture business partner with deep, rich experience accelerating change, transforming cultures, and elevating performance to achieve business objectives in multiple industries. She has spent her career exploring her passion for inclusion, organizational development, leadership, change, and capability development. Most recently, Carlee served in transformative leadership roles at major brands such as Under Armor and Hyatt Hotels. In...
Aug 25, 2022•34 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Send us a text Summary: Nadia Clifford is passionate about transforming and reinventing complex technology organizations through efficient processes and collaboration. Her entire career she’s been at the forefront of digital transformations, even before this term existed. Her penchant for taking on new challenges has propelled her into different industries throughout the years (e.g., biotech, HR & payroll, retail, media, financial services, crypto, and banking). She has also worked in a rang...
Aug 18, 2022•28 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Send us a text Summary: While on the road at the ADP Pro Summit in Dallas, Dwight and David talked about Dwight’s past experience at Mayo Clinic working with quality analytics. This episode is a bit of a case study in process automation and how it can, in some cases, save lives. Chapters: [0:00 -2:23] Introduction •Today’s Topic: Process Automation [2:24 -11:31] Examining processes and recognizing what can be automated •Manual processes can be time consuming and can use up valuable resources •Th...
Aug 11, 2022•27 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Send us a text Summary: Kevin Campbell, employee experience scientist with Qualtrics, is back again for another fascinating discussion with David and Dwight! Kevin creates and implements plans for strategic positioning with company executives and high-level leaders with the goal of improving the employee experience. Prior to his current role at Qualtrics, Kevin served as a Lead People Scientist for Culture Amp where he helped organizations like Airbnb, Palo Alto Networks, and ServiceNow reinvent...
Aug 04, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Send us a text Summary: While on the road at the ADP Pro Summit in Dallas, Dwight and David talked about compensation benchmarking in hopes of demystifying it and breaking down how it works. They list some of the beneficial aspects of benchmarking and other areas that present opportunities for improvement. Chapters: [0:00 -3:20] Introduction •Today’s Topic: Compensation benchmarking [3:21 -8:48] How companies can use compensation benchmarking to learn more about their workforce •Large data sets ...
Jul 28, 2022•21 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Send us a text Summary: Jeremy Feinstein is the managing director at Empsight International, LLC, a Human Resource consulting firm that specializes in compensation consulting and helps companies make strategic decisions involving their employees. Jeremy primarily focuses on conducting compensation surveys in niche markets, both domestically and internationally. Kevin Plunkett is the VP of Partnership at Salary.com. He has 15+ years of human capital experience in high-growth technical organizatio...
Jul 21, 2022•23 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Send us a text Summary: Marc McBrearty is the North American Practice Leader, Rewards Data & Software at Willis Towers Watson. His years working in the financial services industry helped him hone his skills in HR consulting, executive pay, broad-based employee compensation, and compensation software. Kevin Plunkett is the VP of Partnership at Salary.com. He has 15+ years of human capital experience in high-growth technical organizations and he specializes in staffing consulting and business ...
Jul 14, 2022•40 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Send us a text Belinda Roberts is the North America Survey Products Leader at Mercer. She’s passionate about HR and has some experience-backed insights into compensation data, it’s current state, and where it’s heading. Kevin Plunkett is the VP of Partnership at Salary.com. He has 15+ years of human capital experience in high-growth technical organizations and he specializes in staffing consulting and business development. In this episode, David and Kevin talk with Belinda about the future of co...
Jun 30, 2022•27 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Send us a text Summary: David Turetsky is a passionate speaker and at this year’s WorldatWork ’22 conference, he gave a presentation titled, Talent Intelligence: The Evolution of People Analytics . For the first time in HR Data Labs history, we’re showcasing a presentation that was given at a major conference! As you’ll hear, the audience thoroughly enjoyed it, and we want to know your thoughts too. Consider giving us some feedback on our website because we would love to hear from you. In this e...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Send us a text Garry Straker has more than 20 years of experience providing total rewards consulting services to a diverse list of clients from a variety of industries including technology, logistics, higher education, non-profit, healthcare, public sector, and more. Garry’s focuses on helping organizations achieve strategic goals by leveraging technology, data, and labor market insights to design sustainable, market-aligned total compensation plans. His expertise includes developing rewards pro...
Jun 16, 2022•14 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Send us a text While on the road at the ADP Pro Summit, David sits down with colleague Dino Zincarini to talk about compensation strategies, how they’re being challenged, and how some companies are navigating the necessary change. In this episode, Dino talks about compensation trends and insights from his latest projects. Chapters: [0:00 -1:41] Introduction •Welcome, Dino! •Today’s Topic: Compensation strategy and trends [1:50 -12:06] Are current compensation strategies working? •How working fro...
Jun 09, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Send us a text Summary: As Season 3 of the HR Data Labs Podcast comes to a close, David and Dwight take a look back at its episodes, its guests, and some key lessons. They also throw out some predictions for the future of HR. Chapters: [0:00 - 5:05] Introduction Welcome… David and Dwight! Today’s Topic: Season 3 Recap [5:06 - 17:09] Looking back at Season 3 Revisiting episodes, topics, and common themes Key lessons from Seasons 3 [17:10 - 21:31] Looking forward to Season 4 What themes can you ex...
Jun 02, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Send us a text Summary: Tim Freestone starting out initially as a financial analyst in a large smash repairs, believe it or not, but has since spent his career in analytics. He left the world of forecasting balance sheets & income statements to progress into commercial analytics and then eventually into data analytics, where he lead an analytics team in a travel tech company. Through his career Tim has gotten great firsthand experience in being both a candidate and a hiring manager in analyt...
May 26, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Send us a text Summary: Adriana DiNenno is a product manager for Infor People Solutions and has been with the company for 13 years. Day-to-day, she is a jack of all trades, working on a variety of applications within the HR Talent suite from Core HR to Health & Safety to Employee Relations. About a year ago, Adriana founded a group at Infor called the “Infor People Wellbeing”. It’s an employee resource group that focuses on all dimensions of an employee’s wellbeing, from the mental to physic...
May 19, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Send us a text Summary: Greg Miller’s career has been focused on one of his greatest passions—tackling significant socioeconomic challenges like the digital skills gap. After starting his career at Oracle, Greg worked in senior leadership roles at leading tech companies such as PeopleSoft and, most recently, SAP where he was Chief Operating Officer. After his tenure at SAP, he raised social venture capital to enable youth STEM innovation and grow the next generation of digital skills in Australi...
May 12, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Send us a text Summary: Garry Straker has more than 20 years of experience providing total rewards consulting services to a diverse list of clients from a variety of industries including technology, logistics, higher education, non-profit, healthcare, public sector, and more. Garry focuses on helping organizations achieve strategic goals by leveraging technology, data, and labor market insights to design sustainable, market-aligned total compensation plans. His expertise includes developing rewa...
May 05, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Send us a text Summary: Kevin helps organizations acquire, develop, and retain their most valuable asset: their people. He also helps people manage an aspect of their lives that plays a key role in their happiness: their work. He’s spent the last decade of his career building leaders at every level and creating scores of engaged, high-performing, strengths-based teams. Prior to founding Lifted Leadership, Kevin served as a Lead People Scientist for Culture Amp where he helped organizations like ...
Apr 28, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Send us a text Summary: Susan Hunt Stevens is the Founder & CEO of WeSpire, an award-winning, employee experience technology that drives environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes by engaging people in activities that align with their passion and purpose. She founded WeSpire, after her son was diagnosed with serious food allergies, to leverage her digital behavior change expertise to help people embrace healthier and more sustainable lifestyles and create a more equitable and inclu...
Apr 21, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Send us a text Summary: As the Senior Vice President of Research at The Josh Bersin Company, Kathi leads and develops research-based insights for all areas of HR, Learning, Talent, and HR Technology. She has 20+ years of experience in management consulting (with IBM, PwC, and EY) and as a talent leader (with McKesson and Kaiser Permanente). Most recently, Kathi led talent and workforce research at Deloitte. She is a frequent keynote speaker, author, and thought leader. Originally from Austria, K...
Apr 14, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Send us a text Summary: Steve Brink has always had a passion for HR technology and data analytics. Early in his career, he was involved in creating a job evaluation software tool and the first PC-based compensation planning tool, called Compensation Workbench, released in 1987. He then went on to work at Towers Perrin and Mercer where he continue to develop and improve software tools. Most recently, he’s left his role as CEO of AIRINC to become President of uFlexReward. In this episode, Steve ta...
Apr 07, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Send us a text Summary: Tarush Aggarwal has been at the forefront of HR data analytics since it gained recognition in 2011. He was Salesforce Analytics Team’s first data engineer and, later, got the opportunity to build up an international data team at WeWork that scaled up to over 100 people from its initial 5. He then moved to Shanghai and did it all again for our rapidly growing business in China. Along the way, he’s learned important lessons from personal experience on the best ways to grow ...
Mar 31, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Send us a text Summary: While traveling the world (and the online world) as VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Holger Mueller researches enterprise software trends and focuses on the next generation of applications and the future of work. He’s built his 25 year career in the industry by building, selling, and implementing enterprise software. Outside of his work at Constellation Research, Holger is a cycling, soccer, and volleyball enthusiast. In this episode, Holger talks about...
Mar 24, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Send us a text Summary: Larry Dunivan is a seasoned software industry executive with a 30+ year career. His experience spans a variety of projects and responsibilities with the greatest emphasis being on executive leadership, sales management, and product management and development. His unique insight into the software industry and its leadership, along with attention to talent development and interpersonal interactions, set him apart from his peers. In this episode, Larry talks about HR Technol...
Mar 17, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Send us a text Summary: Jan Johnson loves all things HR Technology. Always immersed in technology, she’s taken her career from setting up learning systems as a program manager to now leading product management for Talent Acquisition and HR at UKG. Jan doesn’t focus on the features, but on the business problems her customers need to solve—or better yet, don't yet know they are going to have! In this episode, Jan talks about people, their work, and their data. Chapters: [0:00 - 4:37] Introduction ...
Mar 10, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Send us a text Summary: Known as the "Godfather of Data Literacy", Jordan Morrow has helped pioneer the field of data literacy by building one of the world's first data literacy programs. He is Head of Data, Design, and Management Skills at Pluralsight, and he served as the Chair of the Advisory Board for The Data Literacy Project. Jordan has spoken at numerous national and international conferences and is an active voice in the data and analytics community. He has also helped companies and orga...
Mar 03, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Send us a text Summary: Adriana DiNenno is product manager for Infor People Solutions and has been with the company for 12.5 years. She loves working on a variety of applications like Talent Acquisition systems, Core HR, and Occupational Health to name a few. Her “side job” at Infor is co-chair of the Infor People Wellbeing employee resource group, whose goal is to create a safe work environment by focusing on all dimensions of employee wellbeing. She says, “With a brother who suffered from ment...
Feb 24, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Send us a text Summary: Fred Wills is a thought leader on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), organizational development, culture and climate, and its impact on organizational performance, transformation, and change. He’s built a successful career which includes working for Mayo Clinic and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and he’s since channeled this experience into the foundation of Inclusiastic Consulting. He also brings international experience in organizational performance, community dev...
Feb 17, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Send us a text Summary: Lenna Turner is the Director of DEI and a consultant at Salary.com’s CompData Consulting Practice. Lenna’s current role focuses on client engagements involving compensation studies for base and total compensation, pay equity, and building DEI thought leadership and knowledge offerings for clients via white papers, surveys, roundtables, and panel discussions. She has been with Salary.com since 2019 and has 20 years of compensation management, consulting, and HR experience ...
Feb 10, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Send us a text Summary: Joseph Ifiegbu is the co-founder and CEO of eqtble. He has an impressive history of leading HR technology and people analytics teams at Snap, WeWork, Toys “R” Us, and Arsenal FC. These days, his passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion drives him to help companies answer questions like “why are top performers leaving” and “why are qualified candidates declining offers”. In this episode, Joseph talks about how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) affects the employee...
Feb 03, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Send us a text Summary: Ray Goldberg founded Pier Forward to help employers address DEI challenges in the benefits arena, improving organizational performance and addressing disparities. He has decades of experience in HR, benefits, technology, operations, and transformation, with leadership roles at marquis employers, and experience consulting with corporate clients. He actively leads the BennIE Forum, which brings HR leaders together to explore how DEI and Benefits can strengthen organizations...
Jan 27, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 7
