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Hello Andy, welcome to HRTech Cube! Can you please share your professional journey and what inspired you to co-found When? I am a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded two technology startups that were later acquired by public companies. The latter company, ApartmentJet was acquired by Expedia Group. During the Covid pandemic, I experienced a layoff firsthand and it motivated me to create a better offboarding solution, When. The idea for When was conceived by my co-founder and next-door neighbor, Dan Wertheimer, after he lost his job while pursuing his MBA at Chicago Booth. His health insurance premiums jumped from $50 to $800 a month! Dan quickly realized he wasn’t alone in being shocked by this unexpected increase in monthly expenses. This experience led him to develop a business thesis on creating a new employee benefit to help cover health insurance costs during job loss. Dan submitted the thesis to the New Venture Challenge, one of the largest business case competition...

Hi Eric, it’s a pleasure to have you at HRTech Cube! Can you share your professional journey and what led you to focus on  talent management  and skills development within organizations? I started my career as an accountant.  Realizing that was not for me, I began to do strategy and change consulting for a number of years.  After a while, I began to question if we were really making any sustainable change in organizations.   That questioning led me to see that the only way to sustainable change in organizations is to build a critical mass of professionals with new habits and ways of working.  That lead to 25+ years in talent development!  I never looked back!   You’ve emphasized a “skills first” approach to training employees. What do you see as the limitations of traditional training models that focus solely on productivity? The productivity focus is short-term and all about today.  Those abilities may be transferable.  However, it is n...

We’re delighted to have you at  HRTech Cube , Melanie! To start, could you share a bit about your professional journey and what led you to your role as Chief People Officer at Contentsquare? Thank you for speaking with me! Early in my career, I was a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte, where I specialized in organizational transformation and change management in both roles. These consulting experiences have shaped how I operate in the People space, contributed to my success in scaling companies, and they were integral building blocks to the next part of my career as a people leader. I’ve had leadership roles at leading tech companies including Greenhouse, Jetblack and of course, Heap. At Greenhouse, my work was instrumental in taking the company to the #1 spot on the Best Places to Work list on Glassdoor. I am proud to share that in my role at Jetblack, I grew the team from 20 to 350 in less than two years. Most recently at Heap, we were awarded Best Places to Work on G...