Talent acquisition expert Heather Flynn joins Roy to discuss the ins and outs of successful recruitment strategy. Heather recently served as the SVP of Talent Acquisition for Aritzia, prior to which she led hiring efforts for other major brands like Nike and ASML. Roy and Heather dig into the essential role of talent strategy, the importance of strong employment branding and candidate engagement, the emerging application of AI in recruiting, and much more.

Highlights from our conversation include:

• How holistic talent strategy informs a successful business strategy (5:52)
• Current trends, challenges, and opportunities facing top talent acquisition leaders (7:54)
• Key elements of a successful talent acquisition strategy (9:58)
• How Heather assesses an organization’s hiring bar (13:45)
• Ways that hiring leaders can step up their game (16:11)
• Heather’s approach to helping hiring teams make the best candidate decisions (17:45)
• What growing consumer brands look for in a leader and how it’s evolved recently (20:07)
• How she approached talent strategy at Aritzia (22:14)

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Coach, speaker, and author Patrick Galvin joins Roy to discuss the principles laid out in his recent book The Connector’s Way. Patrick’s work focuses on the essential role of personal connection and relationship building in our day to day life, our business practices, our sense of success, and more. As co-founder and partner of The Galvanizing Group and author of several books exploring the nuances of social connection and trust building, Patrick helps high-performing companies and individuals achieve greater levels of success in business by strengthening internal and external relationships. Patrick and Roy dig into the many ways to practice relationship building, the pitfalls of networking without connecting, why it pays to be “the keener,” and much more.

Highlights from our conversation include:

• The important distinction between connecting and networking (5:02)
• Ways in which hybrid/remote work impact connection (7:11)
• Using Patrick’s methods to build trust, engagement, and performance (9:16)
• Embedding relationship building into company culture and leadership development practices (12:53)
• The intersection of connection and recruiting (18:52)
• Balancing work, life, and maintaining strong relationships (20:58)
• Metrics that leaders can use to track or improve their ability to foster connections (26:36)
• How Patrick sees technological advances impacting the formation and maintenance of relationships (29:59)

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Fred Miller and Judith Katz of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group have spent the last few decades on the cutting edge of diversity and inclusion thought leadership and organizational development. For the last 50 years, KJCG has assisted organizations in creating inclusive, collaborative workplaces that leverage differences to achieve higher performance and engagement. Judith and Fred have co authored multiple books on diversity, inclusion, collaboration, trust, authenticity, and teamwork, and they join Roy to discuss their latest groundbreaking book, The Power of Agency: Cultivating Autonomy, Authority, and Leadership in Every Role.

Highlights from our conversation include:

• The next crucial step beyond inclusion and diversity (2:30)
• How agency impacts organizational efficiency and performance (4:24)
• The key difference between empowerment and agency (7:18)
• A leader’s role in an agency-forward organization (8:50)
• How to evaluate a leader for their capacity to promote agency (10:00)
• What this leadership shift means for organizations (11:10)
• How the COVID 19 pandemic influenced changes around agency (12:28)
• Six critical factors that foster a culture of agency (16:00)
• How to avoid a “runaway train” when implementing this strategy (18:36)
• The first steps leaders can take toward unleashing agency (20:42)
• How to evaluate the level of agency in an organization (22:45)
• Common barriers in unleashing agency (23:30)
• The important distinction between being kind and being nice (24:55)
• How AI and other technologies might affect agency in the workplace (27:06)

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