People & Talent

Anthony Louis is an Engagement Manager at Beacon, a talent consultancy and recruitment firm that helps growing organizations level up their internal hiring programs. He’s helped 60+ companies with revenue from $5M - $50M build out their people and talent functions; scaling headcount from 10 - 250 employees. In this guide, he walks through building a Strategic People function, including HR evolution stages, structuring sub-functions, and HR org/leadership profiles.

Leang Chung is the Founder & CEO of Pelora Stack, a career coaching and people ops consulting company. Previously she served as Talent and HR leader at Getty Images, Xaxis, Havaianas, and L’Oreal USA. In this guide, she explains how to build a people function at a startup, including fundamentals like how recruiting and onboarding processes should function and what kinds of early benefits to offer.

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.

Brett Ungashick is the Founder and Bryan Bridgford is the PEO Practice Leader at OutSail, an advisory firm helping companies research, evaluate and select new HR software. Brett and Bryan have helped more than 1000 companies evaluate and select HR technology solutions. In this guide, Brett and Bryan walk through the different categories of HR and Benefits tools, and how to select and build a technology ecosystem that supports your needs.

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.

Allison Whalen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Parentaly, helping companies improve the experience of parental leave from policy, to pre-leave planning, to return-to-work re-onboarding. In this guide, Allison walks through creating a leave programming including creating a policy and supporting employees pre- and post-leave.

Anthony Louis is an Engagement Manager at Beacon, a talent consultancy that helps growing organizations level up their internal hiring programs. In this guide he lays out a roadmap for an outcome-based hiring process, from writing a spec to identifying candidates to running an interview process to making the hire, all with better targeting and less bias.

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.

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 designing and executing an engaging and effective new hire experience.

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.