The Purpose at Work Podcast

 Eric Severson is a 25-year HR veteran known for building leading edge, evidence based systems to manage talent and drive organizational performance. He is currently Chief People Officer for DaVita Kidney Care, a Fortune 200 health care organization with more than 60,000 teammates across 2,500 locations in the U.S.

Dan Sommer is the CEO and founder of leading workforce accelerator Trilogy Education. Since launching in 2015, Trilogy Education has partnered with over 45 of the world's top universities to train over 10,000 working adults with the tech skills to thrive in the digital economy. The company currently powers boot camp programs in coding, data analytics, cybersecurity, and UX/UI in 50 cities across 3 continents.  

Christy is the Chief Talent Officer at WillowTree, a digital innovation agency. Christy has helped WillowTree grow from 30 to 300+ team members over the last several years. 

Zach Mercurio is a purpose and meaningful work researcher, strategist, and is the bestselling author of "The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose."

Sara Patterson is the  Sara Patterson is the Vice President and Head of Talent Management for Digitally Native Vertical Brands at Walmart eCommerce where she brings an innovative leadership style to deliver initiatives that have soul.   

Ellen Petry Leanse is a Silicon Valley veteran and digital pioneer who now applies hard-earned lessons from decades at companies like Apple and Google, as an entrepreneur, and as a Stanford instructor, to shaping a breakthrough workplace culture at fast-rising search innovator Lucidworks. As you're about to hear she grounds her work in a deep understanding of neuroscience and leadership psychology. 

Recognized as an innovative, high-performing leader with the ability to architect and drive business and organization strategy.  Adriana has a deep expertise in transforming employee and candidate experience by using enabling technology to drive engagement. 

 Rick Acampora is the COO for Wavemaker where he focus is on people and coaching for growth. 

John is a mindfulness coach and speaker. He's currently also the VP of People Operations & Mindfulness at BuzzFeed.

Erik is an award winning entrepreneur, sales leader and advisor that has built and managed multiple technology companies that have led to hyper revenue growth, major capital investments and acquisition. 

Rebecca Weaver is the co-founder of HRuprise, a fast-growing social movement and global community aimed at inspiring meaningful change within HR. She is also the Head of People + Culture at Rational Interaction, Seattle’s largest independent creative agency and consultancy.

Kiran Smith is a former CMO and brand marketer who recently joined the agency world as CEO at Arnold based in Boston. 

She brings her diverse range of experience within marketing and consulting to her new role on the agency side to help a write a new future for Arnold - focused on being the best possible partner to the modern CMO. 

As VaynerMedia’s first ever Chief Heart Officer, Claude Silver unlocks employees' full potential by forging human-to-human connections, creating cultures of belonging, empowers teams to be purpose-driven, efficient, and strong, and infuses the agency with empathy, humanity, and optimism. 

 Kevin Gaugush helps companies increase employee capability, ensure they have enough capacity, and create the culture that allows people to perform at the highest level. 

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Lorna Hagen is a Human Resources executive with over 15 years of experience in delivering innovative employee experiences and people solutions to drive business strategy and shareholder value. A demonstrated HR business partner, she has a proven track record of leading and driving change to transform business culture.

 Joan Burke is the Chief People Officer at DocuSign where she leads the company’s global human resource function – including talent acquisition, onboarding, learning and development, performance management, total rewards, HR information systems, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, the DocuSign IMPACT Foundation and more.  

Joan has more than 25 years of leadership experience in designing and implementing innovative, results-oriented HR programs and best practices that create and inspire cultures of innovation and growth.  

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Brian Freeman is the founder & CEO of Heartbeat where we enable brands to run the largest nano-influencer campaigns in the world as well as give brands the ability to personalize their experience for their fans and consumers. 

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Craig is the CEO of Motus where he leads companies to become authorities in their industries. As a leader, he has created a solid culture dedicated to the principles of transparency, communication and individual responsibility.

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Aaron has the privilege of bringing ActionIQ's revolutionary platform directly to marketers at major consumer brands across the country.  He  specializes in driving strong results in sales and customer success, with additional strengths in business operations, finance, legal, and organizational management. 

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Bill found his passion for enablement through selling, managing and developing sellers, their managers, and client relationships. Bill plays a strategic role not only in role-based development, but how people, systems and departments can positively impact the success of producers, and ultimately their companies. 

Phil looks after people, culture and operations for customer agency, C Space - a 500 person global agency. Previously, he was Joint MD of C Space London. C Space's mission is to make business more human, by building customers into the ways companies work to drive growth and business change​. Phil's role is to ensure they build a more human business at C Space too.

You can learn more about James and follow him here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipburgess/

This episode is brought to you by Guided. Guided helps leaders eliminate the root cause of burnout and turnover by providing great coaching at scale so they can stop putting out fires and build great culture.

Lee heads up the People Team at The Motley Fool - a global multi-media financial-services company with over 400 employees that is dedicated to building the world's greatest investment community. They are passionate about individuals loving their jobs and working at The Fool for the rest of their lives. The Motley Fool is famous for crazy ideas that actually work like "ask for a raise day" and the company paying people to take vacation on short notice.

You can learn more about Lee and follow him here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-burbage-069787/ or check out www.fool.com if you're interested in touring the office.

This episode is brought to you by Guided. Guided helps leaders eliminate the root cause of burnout and turnover by providing great coaching at scale so they can stop putting out fires and build great culture. 

James Orsini is Chief Operating Officer for VaynerMedia a digital agency with social at its core. Working alongside founder and CEO Gary Vaynerchuk James helps manage the agency for success.

You can learn more about James and follow him here:
@jimmythepencil on Twitter | @jamesorsini on Instagram

This episode is brought to you by Guided. Guided helps leaders eliminate the root cause of burnout and turnover by providing great coaching at scale so they can stop putting out fires and build great culture.