A typical startup’s Head of People owns an ambitious and ambiguous agenda, usually with an anemic budget and very little guidance.  Prioritization and proper phasing of initiatives, therefore, becomes a key success factor (and essential for team sanity and well-being! 😉).  When your daily decisions can impact whether or not people are getting paid properly;…

I was recently asked to contribute to Greenhouse’s blog about the New People Teams.  You can find my post here and below, alongside posts about other progressive People Teams such as Flatiron Health, Bonobos, Enigma, and more. 1. Can you give us a quick overview of 1stdibs in general and your People team specifically? 1stdibs is the…

I was lucky to be invited to speak on a panel hosted by Impraise, the performance management software company out of Amsterdam.  On the panel were the Heads of People from Updater (ex-Tumblr) and Pond5 (ex-Grubhub/Seamless). We received some of the questions in advance, but the moderator, Arthur Woods from Imperative, went off-script which led to…