
What the HR! is an award-winning podcast. Presented by TCSHRM and hosted by Mike Thul & Jessie Novey. The podcast provides insights, strategies, and anecdotes that explore how to build better businesses through modern people practices and approaches. Topics covered include Organizational Development, Employee Engagement, Listening Strategies, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Company Culture, Transformation, Talent, and Leadership. INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org.
Episodes

Wednesday May 24, 2023
Episode 70: Next Great Step: Career Coaching For College Students
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Beth Hendler-Grunt is a dynamic leader, adviser, and facilitator who has extensive experience consulting from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms. She has proven success with guiding firms, sales teams and individuals to achieve their sales performance and strategic planning goals.
Ms. Hendler-Grunt has leveraged and scaled her corporate expertise to guide college students to help them succeed when they graduate. This is based on a clear understanding of the career development process and the requirements needed to succeed in today’s competitive environment. Next Great Step has facilitated student strategy and development sessions for recent graduates and current students at leading universities as well as one-on-one consultations.
Guest:
Beth Hendler-Grunt
linkedin.com/in/bethhendlergrunt
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Wednesday May 03, 2023
Episode 69: HR and Marketing Should Join Hands
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Kerry-Ann is a financial services marketer, currently leading the marketing function at JMMB
(Financial) Group, which has operations across the Caribbean, with headquarters in Kingston,
Jamaica, where she’s currently based.
A firm believer in the need to implement creative, out-of-the-box marketing strategies, to drive
deeper customer and employee engagement that create the win for brands; her current role as
Group Chief Marketing Officer includes the overall leadership of marketing strategy development
and execution, including customer insight management.
Kerry-Ann is also the producer and host of The Internal Marketing Podcast; a personal project
where she supports the business leadership community by hosting discussions with various
subject matter experts in internal marketing and employee advocacy. Specifically, her aim is to
‘flip the marketing conversation’ to focus on how companies can market internally (to their
employees), with a view to ultimately engaging and empowering them to become advocates of
the company brand.
Guest:
Kerry-Ann Betton Stimpson: CMO, JMMB Group
linkedin.com/in/kerryastimpson
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Episode 68: How to Crush the Candidate Experience
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Tianna is a People & Recruiting Leader who has a passion for building diverse teams and high-impact programs that help companies scale. She joined Notion three years ago as their first talent hire leading the Tech Recruiting Team. For the last two years, she’s been leading Talent Ops & Recruiting programs at Notion and has helped the company scale from around 30 to almost 600 employees. Tianna’s also helped both Lyft and GitHub in their hyper-growth phases as a recruiting leader. She has over 15 years of experience in the People/ Talents culture building space. She’s worn hats in most people functions people ops, HR, recruiting, programs, and enablement and is launching her own consulting firm
Guest:
Tianna Johnson: Head of Talent Operations at Notion
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org
Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Episode 67: How to Make Compliance A Little Less Boring
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Jennifer Watson joins us to share her experience managing compliance for both big and small companies. Tune in for some tips and tricks on how to make compliance a little less boring!
Guest:
Jennifer Watson: Vice President, Human Resources at LASSO
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifer-watson-b75b5a2a
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org
Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Episode 66: The Radical Art of Prioritizing
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Brandi Olson believes that you shouldn’t have to choose between doing good, important work, and your own humanity. An expert in organizational design and agility, she teaches leaders how to solve problems and adapt fast with high-performing teams. Brandi is a best-selling author of Real Flow: Break the Burnout Cycle and Unlock High Performance in the New World of Work. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, and Inc. Magazine. She is the founder of Real Work Done and lives in Minnesota with her kids, dog, chickens, and garden.
Guest: Brandi Olson
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org
Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Episode 65: Spotlyfe: Helping People and Organizations Combat Burnout.
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
With a passion for building high growth organizations, Josh Schwede has been building and leading teams and strategies to support fast-growing, venture-backed companies in the talent and HR technology space for over two decades. His experience at brands like HireRight, HireVue, QUESocial, and The Marcus Buckingham Company helped prepare him for his most exciting mission yet – co-founding his own work technology platform, SPOTLYFE which is tackling a very human problem – helping people and organizations combat burnout.
Guest:
Josh Schwede: Co-Founder & CEO at SPOTLYFE
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org
Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/
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Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Episode 64: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts with Steve Hunt
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Dr. Hunt’s work focuses on using technology to increase workforce agility and performance by improving employees’ capabilities experience, engagement, inclusion, and well-being. An internationally recognized industrial-organizational psychologist, he has helped create human resource solutions that have positively influenced millions of employees working for thousands of companies around the globe.
Dr. Hunt's new book "Talent Tectonics" - https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Tectonics-Navigating-Organizations-Reimagining/dp/1119885183
Guest: Dr. Steve Hunt, Chief Expert at SAP; Author of best selling book "Talent Tectonics"
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org
Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/
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Friday Sep 30, 2022
Episode 63: Quiet Quitting w/ Dr. Ben Granger
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Dr. Ben Granger joins the show to discuss Qualtrics' research on Quiet Quitting, and the impact it has on both companies and employees.
Guest: Dr. Benjamin Granger: Chief Workplace Psychologist | Head of EX Advisory Services @ Qualtrics
linkedin.com/in/benjamin-granger-7147991b
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org
Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/
Thank you for listening, and if you enjoy this podcast please consider leaving a review as it helps us reach more listeners.
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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Episode 62: Power of your potential: Gallup StrengthFinder
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Keri Bischoff joins the show to talk strengths. Keri is the founder and CEO at Keri Bischoff Consulting and a Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengthsTM coach. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Business Management and Organizational Behavior, and a Master of Arts in Education. Additionally, she is a Wellbeing coach partnered with clinicians and educators at Johns Hopkins.
Guest: Keri Bischoff: Speaker | Gallup Certified Strengths Coach | Leadership & Organizational Consultant | Workshop Facilitator
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org
Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/
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Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Episode 61: HR Technology Conference Wrap Up
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
In this episode I am joined by two HR Technology Consultants, Jeremy Ames and Shannon Klick. The HR Technology Conference recently wrapped up in Las Vegas and we break it down to share some insights from the week.
Guests:
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email sponsors@tcshrm.org
Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/
Thank you for listening, and if you enjoy this podcast please consider leaving a review as it helps us reach more listeners.
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