Management & Culture

Noa Gafni is the Executive Director at Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation, where she educates business leaders on corporate social responsibility, including diversity and inclusion. In this guide, she explains how to create diverse teams, ensure supportive work environments, and reap the innovation benefits that come from a broader perspective.

LifeLabs Learning is a leadership skills accelerator that’s served 2,300+ companies, including CapitalOne, TED, Reddit, Spotify, and The New York Times. This guide walks through key skills in the manager toolkit, including offering question-based coaching, providing specific and actionable feedback, prioritizing with limited resources, and holding developmental 1-on-1 conversations.

Erik Silk is the Co-Founder and CEO of welcomary, an employee onboarding tool that helps new employees know what to do, who to meet, what everything means, and how to get the lay of the land. In this guide, Erik walks through building an employee onboarding program, including structuring the process, building out a knowledge repository, and assigning onboarding responsibilities.

Brandon Sammut is the Chief People Officer at Zapier, a 100% remote workflow automation company with over 750 team members in 17 time zones and dozens of countries. In this guide, Brandon explains how to grow employee engagement and performance in a distributed workplace, as well as tools and practices to foster belonging and promote productivity and retention.

Carly Guthrie is the Founder of Guthrie HR Consulting, an advisory firm through which she’s worked with 25+ startups backed by firms like First Round, Google Ventures, a16z, Accel, and Greylock. In this guide, Carly walks through managing employee performance through 1:1s, ad-hoc feedback, and performance reviews.

Daniel Montgomery is the Founder and Managing Director of Agile Strategies, a boutique OKR consultancy that helps companies achieve transformative results in growth, innovation, focus, alignment, and engagement. In this guide, Daniel explains how to create strategically aligned and well-crafted OKRs, create an effective management cadence that translates OKRs into weekly action commitments, and integrate OKRs into the operating model of the organization.

Valerie Rivera and Lauren Grimshaw of Take Back Work are experts at designing and facilitating high-impact and fully customized executive leadership retreats, company offsites and team summits, both in person and/or virtual. They’ve helped companies plan and execute dozens of offsites and retreats in locations around the world. In this guide, Lauren and Valerie walk through planning and executing an offsite, including logistics, building an offsite agenda, and ensuring learnings stick.

Kati Ryan is the Founder of A Positive Adventure, a learning and development consulting firm that has built award-winning training programs for companies like Instacart, Marine Layer, Bill.com, Gannett, LivingSocial, and others. In this guide, she walks through building an L&D program and holding impactful training sessions.