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Below the Surface: How the best people leaders build high-performing teams

by Joelle Emerson

Below the Surface is a show about what the world's best companies are doing right now to build high-performing teams. Each episode, Joelle Emerson (co-founder and CEO of Paradigm) talks with a leader who's rethinking people, talent, and culture. Conversations consider how AI is reshaping work, what hiring should look like as organizations evolve, and how to create the conditions for performance. Made for CHROs, chief people officers, and HR and talent leaders — and anyone who builds teams.

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Inside Anthropic's Culture: Learn Faster, Dream Bigger | Hannah Pritchett

Hannah Pritchett, Chief People Officer at Anthropic, believes the ability to learn starts with ambition. Her test for whether a company is truly set up to learn is simple

Sep 22
51 min

Lightspeed CHRO: Everything is about people | Beth Karlsson

Ask a CEO to name their hardest problem and they will rarely call it a people problem. Beth Karlsson will take that bet every time. From her seat at Lightspeed she watche

Sep 1
44 min

Lattice CEO: Build for the Success of People First | Sarah Franklin

Companies have spent the last few years measuring the value of AI by the headcount it lets them cut. Sarah Franklin calls that a strategic error — one the market is alrea

Aug 24
52 min

Superhuman CPO: To Change How People Work, Change What You Reward | Kenny Mendes

Superhuman's return-to-office mandate wasn't working. The required days came, and the desks stayed empty. So Kenny Mendes scrapped the mandate and changed what the compan

Aug 18
36 min

How Notion Rebuilt HR from First Principles | Katy Shields

When Katy Shields joined Notion as Chief People Officer, she didn't ask her team to improve what was already there. She asked them to throw it out. Katy joined just over

Aug 11
46 min

Greenhouse's Daniel Chait: Hiring Is Broken and Nobody's Winning

Hiring is in a doom loop. Candidates are using AI to apply to more jobs than ever, companies are using AI to screen them out faster than ever, and both sides are getting

Aug 4
51 min

WRITER's Chief People Officer: Companies Aren't Failing at AI, They're Failing at Change | Jevan Soo Lenox

Most companies aren't failing at AI. They're failing at change. That's the argument from Jevan Soo Lenox, Chief People Officer at WRITER, who says the technology is rarel

Jul 21
49 min

How Linear Built a Winning Culture: Focus on Impact, not Hours | Cristina Cordova

How does Linear build a $1B+ business with under 200 people, without a culture of burnout?  Cristina Cordova is COO of Linear, the product development system for teams a

Jul 7
56 min

Cursor’s Hiring Secret: Treat Every Role Like an Executive Search | Adam Ward

What does hiring look like at the frontier of AI? Adam Ward is Head of Talent at Cursor, one of the fastest-growing software companies in history. Before joining Cursor,

Jun 23
43 min

Below the Surface: A podcast for HR and people leaders (Trailer)

The job of the people team is being rewritten in real-time. We created Below the Surface to learn how category-defining companies are navigating people, talent, and cultu

Jun 18
1 min

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