What is a team? In this episode, leadership advisor and award-winning author AJ Thomas joins Chris to explain why traditional definitions don’t cut it anymore. If we reframe teams as any group of people collaborating together, she argues, we can transcend scoreboard anxiety and mobilize the shared connections and curiosities that help us win. For AJ, the key is to focus on the journey, not the jump shots. By celebrating the small successes behind every victory, we enable genuine engagement and can harness a more holistic approach to hiring, leadership, and decision-making. The conversation also covers the impact of technology and AI on team dynamics, what talent leaders can learn from Gen Z, and why the résumé could soon be a thing of the past. Watch now to hear more inspiring insights and expert predictions on the future of work.

Top take-outs for attendees:

- Gain a better understanding of psychometric assessments and its limits

- How to make the most of psychometrics in selection and coaching

- Challenges with psychometric assessments when it comes to neurodiversity

- A deeper insight into the psychometric market and trends.

- Practical tips to get the most out of using psychometrics in selection and development.

More about the speaker:

Nikita Mikhailov is a specialist in personality and a member of the British Psychological Society. He has worked for multiple psychometric publishers, contributed to the development of assessments and delivered psychometric qualifications.

Currently, Nikita is working with individuals, teams, and couples to increase awareness and appreciation of individual differences. Nikita's aspiration is to share the goodness of psychology with a wider audience, including through stand-up comedy.

In this webinar we will discuss why every recruiter needs to be a diversity recruiter.

We will speak about the benefits to the business when we ensure early hires aren’t rushed and the impact to the business when you don’t build a diverse workforce from the beginning.

We will delve into how to influence stakeholders and C-Suite during periods of growth when speed is requested during hiring and how to ensure a fair process.

What you will get from this session:

* An understanding of how to set up a diversity hiring strategy that is fit for scale

* An overview of how building diverse TA teams first can support ensuring that diverse candidates feel comfortable from the get-go during the process

* Insights into the benefits of focusing on building an inclusive environment for diverse employees to reduce attrition

More about the speakers:

Sakena Gardner, VP, Talent and DEI at Numerator

Sakena is a highly accomplished Talent leader with a deep commitment to building high-impact teams and implementing strategies that enable companies to attract and retain top diverse talent. She is dynamic, forward-thinking and passionate about driving results through data informed strategies and process optimisation. At Numerator, Sakena leads Diversity Equity and Inclusion globally.

Dr. Maisha Gray-Diggs, Vice President, Global Talent, Inclusion, and Experience at Eventbrite

Dr. Maisha Gray-Diggs (Dr. MGD) holds the unique distinction of being one of a few engineering leaders who pivoted to ascend the ranks of talent acquisition leadership. Currently, Dr. MGD is the Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition at Eventbrite, Inc. Her engineering, research, development and human resource experiences combine to deliver real value to organisations on a global scale. Her work is informed by a wealth of experience inside of several Fortune 500 companies across the CPG and tech sectors. She has earned the reputation as a quick study, reflective thought leader, and results driven change agent.

We all hold inherently embedded biases that influence our decisions and actions, especially when it comes to interviewing, recruiting, and hiring. Often, these biases are so deeply ingrained that we don’t even realise they’re there! They manifest themselves in the systems and processes we build, the processes we follow, the questions we ask, and the way we act... inadvertently creating barriers to "diverse talent".

In this webinar, Dani Herrera, Intentional DE&I Consultant, will dive deep into manual, tech, and systematic ways to minimise bias and create inclusive, equitable, and accessible hiring processes. We’ll uncover some of the hidden biases in our hiring processes and learn practical strategies to minimise them.

What you will get from this session:

* A deeper understanding of some of the hidden biases in hiring processes and learn practical strategies to minimise them

* Knowledge of how you can minimise bias and create inclusive, equitable, and accessible hiring processes

* Strategies to identify non-inclusive practices in your current hiring processes and redesign those systems with equity, accessibility, and inclusion at the forefront.

More about the speaker:

Dani Herrera is an award-winning, bilingual Latina immigrant radically committed to helping others become more intentionally inclusive. She is committed to building cultures that attract and retain diverse talent, strategies that foster inclusion and belonging, processes that minimise biases, and systems that elevate historically excluded voices and talent, especially the immigrant and Latine communities.

Among many other things, she is a Consultant, a Trainer, and a Speaker. She is also the Awareness and Advocacy Founding Partner at Allies in Recruiting, one of the Founding Members at The Talent Equity Alliance, a Career Coach and Mentor, and a Content Creator. And she was also selected to join the NASA Astrophysics IDEA Practitioners Database.

Organizations know the value of hiring for diversity, but in our age of layoffs and post-pandemic flux, few are delivering. In this episode, Chris catches up with Arthur Woods, Partner at Plenty, an executive search firm for venture-backed startups, to explore how talent leaders can spearhead change in an ever-changing world. They look at the challenge of unconscious bias in remote interviews, propose strategies to combat persistent pay inequities, and discuss how to sell diversity hiring as a strategic and ongoing process. Next, Arthur shares some quick wins to help companies overhaul their inclusive recruitment processes and measure success. As a bestselling author and DE&I expert, Arthur knows this subject like few others on Earth. If diversity is on the agenda in your organization, consider this a must-listen.

Join HIGHER founder, Phil Blaydes and Amy Weidner, founder of Amy's Career Hub, to discuss their adult ADHD diagnoses and reflect on their business and TA careers through a new lens.

This will be a unfiltered conversation suitable for fellow ADHD'ers and everyone else with a people or leadership role who works with ADHD'ers i.e. everyone.

Welcome to our first episode of the Hiring On All Cylinders podcast. Meet our first guest, Becky McCullough, VP of Global Recruiting at HubSpot, the #1 CRM platform for scaling businesses. Starting her career in Finance, Becky speaks about her move into the People and Talent space during a tenuous time in the market after the Great Recession in 2008. Becky discusses how to be a strong people leader and drive organizational change in small and bold ways during uncertain times. Tune into this episode to hear Becky's experience and tips on building strong talent teams, getting buy-in from senior leaders during times of change, and measuring success when scaling rapidly.