You need 3 things written down to make Talent work at your startup: leveling guides, values, and a headcount plan. These set your talent bar, maintain your culture, and ensure you aren’t doing layoffs as a regular course of business.

How to evaluate and position mission driven organizations in 2024 and why being “mission driven” is no longer an impactful talent attraction message.

Moats keep things from getting in, sometimes from getting out - and are much improved with some alligators as reinforcements. For talent - how do you engage, retain, and attract skilled and in demand candidates? One channel we don’t focus on enough: sourcing referrals.

AI is an imperfect technology. Hiring is an imperfect decision. With the right mix of both - perhaps we can strive for a more perfect talent function. But currently, it’s a race we’re losing.

A talent leader’s guide to building or rebuilding a talent team using 4 practices to go from the lions running the circus to getting your ducks in a row.

Here’s how to hire a head of talent for your startup - without anyone feeling like 3 squirrels in Patagonia vests are running the show.

The Unknowable Headcount Plan: the cat is alive and the headcount plan will be documented! Let’s get started…

The Wild Reset: Hiring Through Change - how wild growth and organizational change can be tamed by talent teams

Defluffing Talent Branding: Let’s put the transaction back into this…transaction.