Episode description
Episode description
For my first guest of 2025, I'm delighted to welcome Lisa Hammond, Chief Human Resources Officer at Veradigm. Lisa is a visionary leader with over two decades of experience in HR and organizational strategy. With key roles at Blockbusters, Samsung and many hospitality giants.
She has a rich history of driving transformative change in dynamic environments, from leading M&A initiatives to fostering leadership development and optimizing talent acquisition strategies.
Her passion for creating people-centered organizations anchors her work as a coach, advisor, and executive leader.
Ross and Lisa talk about finding a path in life, changing jobs, taking risks, building relationships, people wanting to invest, tolerance, handling human nature, coping with crisis, real issues, changing perspective, compassion and grounding yourself. The pair also discuss the new President bringing change to organisations, internal transformations, transforming healthcare, humans guiding AI, staying healthy, upskilling, reskilling, falling behind, development, giving people value, being humane, being the person you want to be and traveling to Nepal.
Timecodes:
- 00:19 - Intro to Lisa
- 02:30 Journey from a criminal justice and political science degree to the HR world
- 06:32 A grounding in hospitality shaping thinking
- 09:48 Personal elements dealing with conflict
- 12:22 Balancing SOP or letting things go
- 14:11 Process DOS - Dangers, Opportunities, Strengths
- 18:18 Challenges for teams being responsible and digital transformations
- 22:33 AI transforming entire models
- 26:03 Lisa's key milestones for this year
- 30:54 Giving space for wellness and driving upskilling
- 32:57 Goals in the next year
- 36:34 Bringing new energy and our whole self
- 38:10 People looking at HR as a career
- 40:13 Outside triggers and allowing them to manifest
- 47:16 The last time Lisa did something for the first time
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