Laura Fuentes, Hilton CHRO and EVP, talks about the importance of building a fully human experience at work — one where work fits into a good life, and not the other way around. 
Hear why she looks for a passion for purpose when hiring, her thoughts on what people are looking for at work today, and the power of friendships and fun.

Laura Fuentes on the power of a fully human experience at work

DHL Express is No. 1 on the World’s Best Workplaces™ list. Rick Jackson, EVP of engagement and enablement at Deutsche Post DHL Group, talks about how the massive transportation organization engages 110k workers in 200-plus countries, and the role gamification plays.
He shares the three questions he asks himself every day, and what he tries to avoid at all costs when communicating with his team.

Rick Jackson on engaging frontline workers at the World’s Best Workplace

Pat Wadors, chief people officer at UKG, talks about misconceptions around pay equity, and why transparency and education are essential to fixing pay gaps.
She shares why being an introvert and dyslexic is a superpower — and why regrets are gifts. She also tells us what nursing was like before pump rooms were available in offices. 

Pat Wadors on why pay equity doesn’t mean equal pay

Brian Doubles, Synchrony president & CEO, discusses how the pandemic transformed his leadership, eliminating college degree requirements, and what he thinks of return-to-office mandates.
Hear how he decides when to work at home and when to come into the office—and how he maintains work-life balance with a busy job and family.

Brian Doubles on the new way to lead

Irma Olguin Jr., co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries, talks about how to remove barriers from diverse hiring, and why you should hire someone you want to hang out with vs. hiring for their experience.
She discusses why you shouldn’t take a “No” from someone who can't give you a “Yes” in the first place, what makes her relationship with her co-CEO work, how mediation has been transformative, and her favorite thing she does for her employees.  

Irma Olguin Jr. on hiring people you want to hang out with

Multi-Grammy award winner Brittany Howard talks with Roula Amire, content director at Great Place To Work.
In this episode, Howard talks about the importance of belonging, being seen in the world, why she’s thankful for having so many jobs, the power of friendships at work, and what she would tell other women who want to do what she does.
Hear what Missy Elliot means to her, the genesis of her first solo album, "Jamie," and why fishing — yes, fishing — sustained her during quarantine.

Going fishing with Brittany Howard

Tony Bond, EVP Chief Innovation & Diversity Officer speaks with Dr. Mrim Boutla about her career path in neuroplasticity and insights on global intersectionality.

Great Place to Work's Tony Bond in conversation with Dr. Mrim Boutla

Tony Bond, EVP & Chief Innovation Officer at Great Place to Work in conversation with Hilary Giovale, community organizer, philanthropist, and author on power and purpose. 

Great Place to Work's Tony Bond in Conversation with Hilary Giovale

Mike Malloy, Chief Amazement Officer, at Rocket Mortgage, a Quicken Loans company based in Detroit, leads The Pulse (what other companies call human resources), Team Member Learning and Development, Team Member Workspace and Environment, Government Affairs, Event Management, and Audio-Visual. He has also led Rocket Companies Covid-19 response. Rocket Mortgage is America's largest mortgage lender along with other personal finance and consumer service brands. In this interview, Malloy shares that there is nothing more important than understanding what your culture is and writing it down so everybody knows it. It's how the organization makes sure that they always are focused on doing the right thing, serving their clients and being obsessed with finding a better way. During this pandemic he has stuck to this practice, leaning into their nineteen "Isms" creating an environment for the company's employees to work together to drive business in these hardest of times, while also ensuring that every team member can continue to build an amazing career, enhance their well being, build a stable financial future and has an amazing team member experience. Listen in to hear Malloy share the practices at Rocket Mortgages that allow this culture of care to occur. 

Summit Series: Season 2: Chief Amazement Officer, Mike Malloy, of Rocket Mortgage shares Rocket's practices for creating a culture of care

Aron Ain, CEO of UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), in this episode shares that “trust is the magic glue” that makes personal and professional relationships work, thrive and do well. Building on 70 years of experience from two leaders in HR and workforce management solutions, UKG combines the strength and innovation of Ultimate Software and Kronos—two Fortune 100 Best companies who merged on April 1, 2020. Ain explains that when you trust each other you can solve problems with customers, you can solve problems with each other, and you can have opportunities to help your employees to grow and expand. Listen in to hear clear takeaways from Ain on how to create a culture of trust which is the foundation of a great place to work. 

Summit Series: Season 2: “When we trust each other, everything becomes possible.” An Interview with Aron Ain, CEO of UKG

In this episode, Carolyn Slaski, EY Americas Vice Chair – Talent speaks in conversation with Tina Tchen, President & CEO of TIME’S UP on how EY as an organization shares TIME'S UP mission to create workplace cultures where everyone in the workplace can feel safe, respected and able to reach their full potential. Slaski and Tchen speak on what it takes to make employees feel like they really belong. They discuss how gender equality will only exist when transformation leaders make it their mission, as well as all employees must be willing and vulnerable to do the work. Caring about, talking about and actively working on gender equality all the time is an enterprise imperative. Listen to their stirring conversation for inspiration and hope.

Summit Series: Season 2: Carolyn Slaski of EY in Conversations with Tina Tchen, President & CEO of TIME'S UP

In this episode Tony Bond, SVP, Chief Diversity & Innovation Officer at Great Place to Work and Ellen McGirt, Senior Editor at Fortune magazine, share how important it is to stop fearing conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion. They share ways they believe you can safely bring up DE&I without having it come back on you in a negative way as well as their advice to leaders on how they must make these issues a top business priority. This interview also includes their sentiments on how under-representation is an embarrassing problem to have and how imperative it is that corporate leaders stop believing it's a competitive advantage to keep quiet about it. Their conversation will most likely make you feel frustrated on what hasn't been done, but will also leave you incredibly inspired that change can and will be made. Be sure to subscribe to McGirt's column "RaceAhead" HERE. 

Summit Series: Season 2: Great Place to Work Interview with SVP, Chief Innovation & Diversity Officer, Tony Bond with Ellen McGirt, Senior Editor, Fortune

Summit Series: Season 2: Great Place to Work Discussion with Marcus Erb, VP, Data Science & Innovation and Sarah Lewis-Kulin, VP, Best Workplaces List Research

Jim Kavanaugh is the CEO and Co-Founder of World Wide Technology (WWT), a technology solutions provider with more than $11.3 billion in annual revenue and more than 6,000 employees globally. It serves the technology needs of large public and private organizations around the globe, including many of the world's best known brands. In this interview, Jim shares how WWT shares out its culture to it's employees in a way that creates flexibility and creativity, but also creates enough guidance and, rigor, to what the company's values are and what its leadership concepts include. Jim explains how he and his executive team have been very disciplined about integrated management leadership curriculum and how it's a huge part of WWT's success and early on focus of their mission. Listen in to hear Jim explain these concepts they look at it as a three legged stool. All three legs of the stool need to be working in synchronization. If one of them is not working, the model doesn't work.

Summit Series: Season 2: How to be a Profitable Company, that's also a Great Place To Work: A conversation with Jim Kavanaugh, CEO & CO-Founder of World Wide Technology

Tim Richmond leads AbbVie’s global human resources function, focused on employee engagement and driving business performance through culture. He is a driving force behind AbbVie’s diverse talent pipeline. In this interview, Tim shares how important it is to set clear standards, clear expectations, and give people a north star. Tim delves into the five pillars of what AbbVie call the “Ways We Work.” These pillars engage AbbVie employees, allowing them to put themselves out there, feel trusted, and feel supported, which is all critical to AbbVie’s culture. Learn what differentiates a good company from a great company and how that's ultimately where everyone’s aspiration should lie.

Summit Series: Season 2: The Ways We Work An Interview With AbbVie CHRO Tim Richmond

In this episode we interview Robert B. Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fifteen books, is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, “Inequality For All.” More recently he’s co-creator of the Netflix original documentary “Saving Capitalism,” which is streaming now and author of the newly released “The SYSTEM: Who Rigged It, How to Fix It” which is available via Penguin Random House or your independent bookseller. Professor Reich in this episode shares hard facts, learnings from his experience, and inspiration to help shape our future for the better.

Summit Series: Season 2: In Conversation with Professor Robert B. Reich

Valerie Jarrett is senior advisor at the Obama Foundation and former senior advisor to President Obama. She led the Obama Administration’s efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class, and boost American businesses and our economy. She championed the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans, and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and around the world. In this episode, she shares stories on how she achieved some of these successes as well as the work she is doing to open CEOs minds to closing the gaps of disparities between communities across the country. Read her New York Times bestselling book, "Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward."

Summit Series: Season 2: Commit to Closing the Gaps an Interview with Valerie Jarrett

As a no-nonsense miner’s son from Yorkshire, Ken Allen took on leadership of DHL Express as their global CEO. With operations in more countries than the United Nations, DHL Express is credited with an astounding financial turnaround after years of stagnation in loss. He was voted Germany's number one turnaround leader and is known as “The Singing CEO” in China for his renditions of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” Most recently, he has published the book “Radical Simplicity: How Simplicity Transformed a Loss-making Mega Brand into a World-class Performer.” In this episode he shares how this strategy works to transform organizations, with a focus first on people.

Summit Series: Season 2: Ain't No Mountain High Enough an Interview with Ken Allen of DHL

One way that Workday, the maker of human capital and financial management software, continually innovates is through its employee survey process. Each week, on Feedback Fridays, the company’s more than 10,200 global Workmates receive an email with two questions about their work experience. In this episode, Greg Pryor, Workday’s People & Performance Evangelist, explains how the company aggregates that survey data to help its people managers continue to improve the ways they support their teams.

Summit Series: Season 1 - Making Every Voice Heard

Ellen McGirt, a Senior Editor at Fortune who writes the daily RaceAhead column, believes that 2019’s Black History Month was a complete disaster. An expert on Diversity & Inclusion, McGirt says that race is still a misunderstood issue and that diversity continues to be a problematic debate in American politics and business. In this episode, she shares how some companies are winning at D&I and gives examples of those that still have a long way to go. Subscribe to the daily RaceAhead newsletter at https://cloud.newsletters.fortune.com/fortune/newsletters. 

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