Laura Baldwin began working with O’Reilly Media in October 2001 as Chief Financial Officer and added Chief Operating Officer to her responsibilities in October 2004. She became O’Reilly’s first President in March 2011 and is currently responsible for O’Reilly’s businesses worldwide. Prior to O’Reilly, she was a consultant to the publishing industry through BMR Associates, and managed several large consulting engagements across all genres of publishing and media. Laura’s media career started at Chronicle Books, the publisher of popular culture, art, and children’s books as well as gift products, where she served as CFO for ten years, establishing Chronicle’s successful distribution business and helping to launch Chronicle’s Gift Business. Exposure to Chronicle Publishings’s diverse media properties, including TV stations and newspapers, ignited Laura’s passion for the media business. Laura has worked in banking as well as in corporate governance, holding positions in worldwide cash management and corporate finance. She attributes much of her success to the all-girls high school she attended, where she was taught that leadership is available to anyone who demonstrates initiative and drive regardless of their gender. She brings that philosophy to O’Reilly, where she helped to create a diversity scholarship program and continues to advocate for an inclusive and open workforce.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Mike Carden is the co-founder of Joyous – the inventor of Open Employee Feedback, used by the world's largest employers. Mike Carden is an HR futurist. In 2006 he founded Sonar6, a revolutionary re-engineering of performance management software, under the moniker of ‘at last, performance reviews that don’t suck.' Sonar6 was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand in 2012. Subsequently, Mike was involved in a huge range of leading-edge tech projects all the time keeping a very keen eye on how technology changes how we all work. This lead to co-founding Joyous in 2018, with a purpose of "making life better for working people." Winner Writemark Plain English Award, and the Bayer Innovators Award. Author on marketing in start up businesses [On a teleconference no-one knows you’re a dog]. Has crashed a plane into the sea.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30 AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Mike Gioja is the senior vice president of IT and product development at Paychex. He leads the development of all Paychex applications including the company’s full-scale human capital management (HCM) offering, Paychex Flex. Committed to delivering highly available, effective, and secure solutions to help clients and Paychex employees succeed, Gioja also oversees all internal corporate applications, IT projects, and security processes. Combining innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology, and a mobile-first design, with the strong culture of service at Paychex, Gioja looks to empower America’s businesses with solutions that help them do what they want – when, where, and how they want. Gioja has more than 35 years of experience in product management and strategy, as well as software and information technology. At Paychex, he’s led his teams through the creation of product road maps and the launch of the cloud-based Paychex Flex, which offers a streamlined and integrated approach to HCM. Gioja and his team have also orchestrated an agile transformation to drive innovation and cultural change at Paychex. Throughout his career, Gioja has led the implementation of large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms, as well as best-of-breed SaaS applications. Prior to Paychex, he held senior leadership positions with companies including IBM, American Express, Fidelity, SAP, and PeopleSoft. Gioja is a member of the board of directors for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He also serves on the advisory board for the State University of NY at Oswego, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Special post-show analysis from Stacey and John for The Annual HR Tech Event (the first virtual HR Tech Conference). Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Jeanne Achille chairs the Women in HR Tech Summit at the annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition as well as at the HR Festival Asia in Singapore. Founder and CEO of The Devon Group, Jeanne has more than 25 years of HR technology sales, marketing and PR experience. She has helped design and launch thousands of products in the HR tech category including sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, HRMS/payroll, relocation, talent management, succession planning and coaching solutions. Follow her on Twitter and connect on LinkedIn.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30 AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30 AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Henry Vasquez leverages his entrepreneurial spirit and more than 10 years of experience in software development to lead product initiatives around employee skills and capabilities at Cornerstone. As Principal Product Manager for Cornerstone’s Performance and Careers solutions, Henry is responsible for building solutions to enhance the employee lifecycle. Henry is most passionate about creating intuitive platforms that help people be extraordinary at work. Prior to joining Cornerstone, he worked at SpaceX as the Product Manager of Knowledge Management and successfully founded and sold his own company. Ike Bennion is a seasoned marketing executive with an extensive background in talent management and learning. As the Principal Product marketing Manager at Cornerstone Ondemand, he drives new product innovation and market strategy for their Learning solutions. He uses his background in other parts of human capital management, including performance, succession, content, recruiting, skills, AI and blockchain, to thread innovation across the career lifecycle and build platforms that create a more empathetic workplace. Before coming to Cornerstone, Ike was a driver of change in the industry at HireVue and Bridge by Instructure.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.  

Kenneth Matos, Ph.D. is Director of People Science, Customer at Culture Amp. He leads a global team of psychologists and researchers who provide clients with actionable advice on collecting, understanding, and acting on employee feedback through evidence-based methodologies. Dr. Matos educates and coaches the Culture Amp community and speaks to mainstream media on the strategic impact of emerging trends in workplace culture and employee experience. Prior to Culture Amp, Dr. Matos provided technical and strategic leadership on a wide range of workforce research and consulting projects. His research covers issues of diversity and inclusion, employee wellbeing, leadership, and organizational culture. He completed his undergraduate work in psychology at Amherst College, received his master’s in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and earned his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology at George Washington University.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

David Karandish is Founder & CEO of Capacity – an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Capacity’s secure, AI-native support automation platform helps teams do their best work. Prior to starting Capacity, David was the CEO of Answers Corp. He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for north of $900m. David lives in St. Louis with his wife, Erin and four kids. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing ukulele.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.  

Ben Waber, PhD, is the president and co-founder of Humanyze, a workplace analytics company. The Humanyze AI platform and one of a kind Humanyze Organizational Health Score provide the world’s most comprehensive objective measurement of the workday and the group collaboration behaviors that lead to an effective and healthy organization. Our SaaS-based analytics, benchmarks, and indicators are used by enterprises to inform and accelerate their Operational, HR, Workplace, and Digital Transformation initiatives. He is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, previously worked as a senior researcher at Harvard Business School, and received his Ph.D. in organizational science from MIT for his work with Alex “Sandy” Pentland’s Human Dynamics group. Waber’s work has been featured in major media outlets such as HBR, Wired, The Economist, and NPR. He has consulted for industry leaders such as LG, McKinsey & Company, and Gartner on technology trends, social networks, and organizational design. His book, People Analytics, was published by the Financial Times Press in 2013.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30M Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.