Early in my career, I was in a job I loved and I knew I was good at it. It was brutal on lifestyle — I literally was on an airplane from Sunday — Friday nights every week for months. I had corporate apartments in two cities. Flight attendants recognized…

In Search of the Next Job: aka The Bachelorette For those of us who enjoy working — who are fortunate to look at a job as more than a paycheck, or who want more than just a paycheck from work — the process of changing jobs can be an emotional…

Exec Teams are either swim teams or soccer teams. I know it’s not always cool to use sports references but I think most people will understand my point here. When I was in high school, outside of many academic clubs & interests, I played two varsity sports: swimming and soccer…

Fortunate enough to be meeting with many CEOs and their teams right now, and it’s interesting to hear about their values. In the people role, you often have to spend time thinking about those values in many dimensions — how are they lived (or not), how are they modeled by…

For a number of years now, many companies are experiencing a promotion request frenzy. Employees heavily focused on the official promotion versus the opportunity or the growth. Maybe this is the “old HR lady” coming out in me, but not every role has a promotable opportunity within a company. For…

After answering a lot of questions on how we innovated on traditional compensation models, I’ve attempted to capture the philosophical underpinnings & execution of this role-based pay process. …