The HR Sound Off Podcast Show

Let’s Sound Off with Anthony Louis - Mastering Talent Engagement

Join us on this week's episode as I sit down with Anthony Louis, a seasoned recruiter who's helped growth-stage companies hire, retain, and scale their organizations. With over 1,000 open roles filled, Anthony has partnered with CEOs and executive teams across various functions and industries. In addition, he'll share his talent strategy, headcount planning, and organizational development expertise. 
In this episode, you'll also glimpse Anthony's life as an avid journaler, amateur marathonist, and corporate TV drama junkie. In addition, he'll share his current watchlist, including Succession and The Morning Show, and his bookshelf filled with must-read titles like "Principles" by Ray Dalio and "Imposter Syndrome" by Kathy Wang.
Don't miss out on this exciting episode, where Anthony will share his wealth of knowledge and help you navigate the world of talent engagement.
Get in touch with Anthony for a consultation at anthonylouis44@gmail.com.
Sponsored by: HR@Heart Consulting Inc. - The HR Safe Space

Let’s Sound Off With Daniel Space - Growing your HR Career

Daniel Space, or you may know him as Dan from HR on TikTok, is a Senior HR Business Partner who describes himself as passionate and experimental in the HR field and discipline. In 2021 Daniel began creating HR Content on TikTok - focused on debunking destructive job search myths, writing optimal resumes, optimizing Linkedin and how Compensation works. As a fan of his content, I asked him to join me on the show, and he said yes! In this episode, we talk about the following:
Creating HR content on social media
How to grow your HR career
The importance of mentors
Is HR your friend?
 
Daniel's movie pics:
Sinister
Seven
Follow Daniel on LinkedIn & TikTok
 
Sponsors:
Process Street
HR@Heart Consulting Inc.

Let’s Sound off With Alisha Parchment - Developing Young People in HR

I found Alisha Parchment on Instagram, and I was instantly hooked on her content and personality.
Alisha is a People Career and Performance Management Partner at Dassault Systemes. Her aim and purpose for this role is to provide clarity and guidance to employees and managers by coaching and advising on career development topics. Alisha wants individuals who work with her to realise their potential and the opportunities available on their respective journeys. Alisha also helps HR students, graduates and professionals gain clarity and confidence in CV writing and interview techniques to land entry-level HR roles. Through her YouTube channel, HR Talks with Lish, Alisha is on a mission to motivate, inspire and elevate. 
In this episode, we talk about the following:
Alisha's HR career journey
Encouraging your people to get into HR
HR on social media
Alisha's self-care regime
Alisha's booklist:
The Gifts of imperfection and Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
 
Special shout out to Adese Okojie & Black Women In HR
 
Check Alisha on social media:
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@hrtalkswithlish
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hrtalkswithlish/
Alisha's Website - https://www.alishaparchment.com/
Connect LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alishaparchment98/
 
Sponsors:
Process Street - https://www.process.st/
HR@Heart - https://hratheart.co/
 

Let’s Sound off with Lizabeth Wesley-Casella - The Attrition & Retention Paradox

When it comes to attrition and retention, do you have all the answers? The truth is none of us has the solutions to every HR challenge that comes our way, which is why we need community.
 
Lizabeth Wesley-Casella joins me this week to share some practical tips and tricks to help you with retention and attrition. Lizabeth is the Founder & CEO of L-12 Services, which helps CEOs, owners, and operations professionals ensure their teams are poised for success, functioning at high capacity, and experiencing unparalleled job satisfaction.
 
Lizabeth's Resources:
Testing Business Ideas by David Bland - https://amzn.to/3Hq7RTG
Take the attrition prevention quiz - https://l12services.com/quiz/
 
Sponsors:
Process Street - https://www.process.st/
HR@Heart Consulting Inc. - https://hratheart.co/

Let’s Sound of with Amy Lavoie - The Future of HR is People Success

Amy Lavoie joins me for this week's episode, and she is breaking down why she loves focusing on people success. As an HR professional, I truly believe it is essential to do the things that make your heart sing because our profession can be very lonely and thankless.
Amy shares her HR story and why she agrees with me when it comes to changing the title of the HR profession to people experience/success.
Amy has spent her career studying, practicing, building, and evangelizing the science of happiness at work. She is on a mission to help organizations, leaders, and teams create cultures where people can bring their best selves to work and do their best work. Because happier employees = better humans and a better world. And oh yeah, it's great for business!
Amy's Pic's
Good Inside Podcast by Dr. Becky
The Dip by Seth Godin
Connect with Amy on LinkedIn to learn more about her work and HR journey.
This episode is brought to you with compliments of Process St.

Meet my HR Community - TroopHR with Tracy Avin

Welcome to the HR Sound Off Podcast show created by an HR professional for HR professionals. This week I sat down with Tracy Avin. Tracy is an experienced Human Resources professional and a leader in building online communities around the needs of HR people. She has built a thriving community called TroopHR to make sure that HR people get access to the resources they need to do their jobs better.
Tracy has spent the last 20+ years as an entrepreneur working at the intersection of HR, healthcare, and startups. In 2013, she started the Post'd People Group, a network for senior HR leaders. This would be the start of her passion project, pushing forward and doing more by building out the network, curating content, and organizing HR events to contribute to the advancement of the people leader profession. Tracy considers herself a bit of a warrior, never giving up and constantly pushing forward, using her determination to build out the HR network to become the platform it is today, TroopHR.
Tracy's favourite podcasts:
Brown Table Talk by Dee C. Marshall and Mita Mallick
HBR Women at work
Connect with Tracy on LinkedIn and check out Troop HR
This episode was brought to you compliments of Process Street.

Let’s Sound Off with Jennifer Armstrong-Owen on HR in The Startup World

How can you be a successful HR professional in the startup world? How do you get your leadership out of the startup mindset when you have grown beyond a startup?
Jennifer Armstrong-Owen describes herself as a strategic and operationally focused Talent and People Executive with significant experience building and leading in global environments. Passionately focused on people development and driving cultural change that elevates team members while achieving business goals and priorities. She has extensive experience with organizational design, change management, total rewards strategies, leadership development, employee engagement strategies, M&A transactions and integrations, private and public boards, and compensation committee partnerships.
Jennifer joins me this week to share her HR story and some golden nuggets on how she has held a successful HR career in the tech startup space spanning over two decades.
Jennifer's resources:
📚 Dan Pink - Drive
📚 Susan David - Emotional Agility
This episode is once again brought to you compliments of Process St.
 

Let’s Sound Off with Jane Ferré - Employee Exits and HR Stories

Jane Ferré is the Executive Career Coach at Jane Ferré Coaching, a private outplacement firm for HR Directors to offer to their senior leaders whose roles are now redundant. Offering this external 1:1 support enables them to exit their people from the business with speed, dignity and grace so that everyone can move on with their heads held high.
Jane joins me to share her HR story, and she gets real on some critical HR topics such as:
HR taking their seat at the table
Navigating your exit from HR
Prioritizing self-care
Her views on lunch and learns
Managing your diary 
Jane's must-read book: Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen.
This episode is brought to you complements of Process St.

Let’s Sound off With Charli Gamber - Moving From Burnout to Brilliance

With almost 100% of HR professionals struggling with burnout, I felt it necessary to share another HR burnout story with you. So joining me in the sound booth this week is Charli Gamber, and we are talking about moving from burnout to brilliance.
 
Charli is the Owner/Independent Agent of Benefits With Heart where she serves employers by strategically setting up their benefits packages, allowing them to attract and retain the best and brightest. In addition, administering their benefits seamlessly gives them valuable time back in their day. As a result, employees understand the value of their benefits presented, complain less about their benefits, and spend less time trying to figure out why that one claim isn't getting paid. 
 
Charli is also the author of the book HR Burnout: Reigniting the flame, and you should check this out. Charli shares why she wrote the book, and we also talk about her most important lesson learned as an HR professional.
 
Chali's book list
📚 Fanatical Prospecting by Jeb Blount and
📚 Yes You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work by Melissa Doman
 
Follow Charli on LinkedIn and check out her book on Amazon.
 
This episode is brought to you with compliments of Process Street.

Let’s Sound Off with Cheryl DeSantis - Developing a Coaching Mindset and Leading with Heart in HR

Cheryl DeSantis is the Chief People and Diversity Officer at the SmileDirectClub based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Cheryl describes herself as a purpose, and values-based leader and her values are courage, compassion, integrity and learning. She believes her purpose is to inspire and empower courageous transformation in leaders and to bring more empathy, love and kindness to the world.
In this episode, Cheryl and I unpack what it means to have a coaching mindset in HR and how to be a more heart-centric professional. While many leaders may think that leading with empathy and focussing on creating meaningful moments that matter at work is "soft HR", Cheryl explains why this type of leadership is the future of leadership in the workplace.
Cheryl is also a published author of the book "Steel Backbones Soft Heart", where she shares the story behind the turnaround in her HR career to heart-centric leadership and why all HR professionals and leaders should lead this way.
We also discuss why her team value of "better is better" should be adopted across HR, what she does for self-care and the advice she would give to her younger self.
This was a truly inspiring conversation, and I hope you enjoy it. 
Follow Cheryl on LinkedIn and check out her new book on Amazon.