Guest Chris Bruce, Co-founder and Managing Director of Thomsons and HR Portfolio Investor, discusses the evolution of HR over the last 20 years.

References from our conversation:

• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business - Patrick Lencioni
• Thomsons Global Employee Benefits Watch 2018/19

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Guest Dr. Ron Leopold, Chief Medical Officer at Lockton discusses the impact of genetic testing on employee benefits as well as the ins and outs of precision medicine and pharmacogenomics.

Download the whitepaper referenced in the conversation here.

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Guest Alisa Avelar, Global Director of People at Toptal, discusses all things remote workforce including how to build connection and a sense of community in a distributed environment.

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Guest Alistair Shepherd-Cross, Founder at Teamit, discusses team based hiring, high performance networks and recruiting in underutilized markets.

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Guest Kristian Ranta, CEO and Founder at Meru Health, discusses turning personal loss into hope, nutritional psychiatry, sleep deprivation and complete care.

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Guests Avantha Arachchi, Director of Talent and Operations at Gerber Technology, and Jessica Simmons of Onfido discuss the importance of community, people as a business function, and homegrown bootstrapped HR.

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Guest Sarah Weiner, Benefits Manager at SunPower Corporation, discusses getting the most out of your HR Technology stack, fear of change and crafting employee experiences using data.

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Guest Jason Cabrera, Benefits Guru at Flatiron Health, discusses what’s in a name, why consumer driven beats high deductible, and the importance of Health Savings Accounts to Financial Wellbeing.

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Guest Denise Jackson, Head of People Operations at Quibi talks about bite sized messaging, the power of perception, and thinking beyond generations in a multigenerational workforce.

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Guest Aaron Huang, Chief Marketing Officer at Lumity, talks about the power of hiring divergent superpowers and personalities to create diversity of thought, hiring your anti-hero, and explains why group-think is dangerous.

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