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Matt Bahl – Maintaining Financial Wellbeing

 

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This week on HR Power Hour. Financial health and wellbeing is at the top of employees’ minds.

Research shows that lack of financial stability can lead to adverse health consequences for your employees, both mental and physical.

On this episode of HR Power Hour, join co-host Tawny Alvarez as she talks to Matt Bahl, Vice President and Head of Workplace Financial Health at the Financial Health Network about the importance of a livable wage and why employers should invest in supporting employee financial health.

During the course of the episode we will discuss current Human Capital Management rules, the importance financial management plays in DEI and ESG measures, and concreate steps that employers can take to collect and analyze data to understand impediments to helping employees achieve financial stability.

About The Guest:

Matt Bahl is Vice President and Head of Workplace Financial Health. In this role, Matt leads market development and workplace strategy efforts across the organization. Matt is deeply committed to the goal of helping improve financial health for all and believes work and the workplace play a key role in making that goal a reality.

With over 15 years of financial services, consulting, legal, and human resources experience, Matt understands the impact that works and the workplace can have on improving workers’ financial health. Previously, Matt led workplace financial wellness consulting teams at Prudential Financial where he helped organizations design financial wellness programs with a focus on measuring the impact of those programs on workers financial health.

Prior to that Matt was a Vice President of Human Resources for one of the largest healthcare systems in Northern New England. Matt began his career as a labor and employment attorney, focusing on collective bargaining and ADA, FMLA, ERISA, and Title VII counseling and litigation. Matt is a cum laude graduate of the SMU Dedman School of law and a Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of Colorado College with a BA degree in Sociology.

Matt lives in Maine with his wife Maggie, and three boys, and enjoys reading, running, and enjoying the natural wonders of Maine with his family.

Kevin Campbell- The Science of a High Performing Workplace

 

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What can you learn from an Employee Experience Scientist?

The answer is a lot if you want to lean about how to get the optimal experience of total engagement.

In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses with Kevin Campbell M.A., Employee Experience Scientist at Qualtrics, how to think differently and optimize the results of both your employee engagement measurement and performance management tools.

About The Guest:

Kevin helps organizations acquire, develop and retain their most valuable asset: their people. Kevin also helps people manage an aspect of their lives that plays a key role in their happiness: their work. He’s spent the last decade of his career building leaders at every level and creating scores of engaged, high-performing, strengths-based teams.

Kevin has driven talent strategy, employee engagement, performance management, and leadership development initiatives for clients in the professional services, medical device, banking, hospitality, consumer products, technology, healthcare, and life sciences industries. He also served as a principal investigator and researcher for social science programs funded by the U.S. Federal Government.

Prior to founding Lifted Leadership, Kevin served as a Lead People Scientist for Culture Amp where he helped organizations like Airbnb, Palo Alto Networks, and ServiceNow reinvent and optimize their performance management and employee engagement initiatives. Kevin also served as a Workplace Consultant and Executive Strengths Coach for Deloitte Human Capital and the Gallup Organization where he helped coach leaders from companies like Stryker, P.F. Chang’s, US Bank, Amazon, CH2M (now Jacob’s), and PayPal leverage their unique individual talents into greater performance.

As a certified coach, Kevin has logged over 1,000 hours of paid executive coaching and workshop facilitation sessions. As a coach, he makes use of a variety of psychometric assessment tools and feedback techniques to identify and coach high-potential, high-performance next-generation leaders.

Prior to his career in the industry, Kevin received a Master’s in Organizational Psychology where he studied under Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, co-founder of Positive Psychology and the first researcher to recognize and name the mental state of flow—the optimal experience of total engagement.

Jen Serei – Developing New Managers 101

 

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Managers are often promoted into the role because they are operationally skilled. However, this often sets up first-time managers for failure.

Unfortunately, they frequently lack the management skills necessary for success. In this episode of HR Power Hour, join host Tawny Alvarez as she talks with Jen Serei, SHRM-CP, HR Partner at MP.

They’ll discuss useful tips and best practices for first-time managers, as well as helpful reminders for more seasoned managers.

In this show, Tawny and Jen will:

  • Identify different management styles;
  • Outline common mistakes new managers make;
  • Share ways to limit adverse effects of common managerial mistakes; and
  • Cover challenges managers encounter, such as delegating and managing former peers.

About The Guest:

Jen is an HR Partner at MP where she provides strategic HR consultation, compliance guidance, and training to clients in a wide range of industries.

Before joining MP, she spent a decade in the non-profit sector holding various HR positions. Jen received her BA from Clark University in Worcester Massachusetts and is a SHRM-certified HR Professional.

Ami Rich – The importance of Organizational Culture in M&A

 

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Organizational culture shapes how work gets done. And in today’s M&A environment, culture is becoming a more commanding force across the deal lifecycle and a central determinant of whether a transaction succeeds.

In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses with Deloitte Consulting Principal Ami Louise Rich, the ways culture is transforming the M&A environment and the breakdown of the key components of a successful cultural integration.

About The Guest:

Ami Louise Rich is a Human Capital leader in Deloitte’s US M&A and Restructuring practice, where she focuses on all manner of people and organizational issues that arise in transactions.

Over nearly two decades, Ami has guided dozens of senior executives on topics spanning operating model design, organization structure, DEI and culture transformation, employee experience, change management, and HR functional integration across the M&A life cycle.

She leads innovation for Deloitte’s M&A Human Capital practice and is a regular guest lecturer at MBA programs around the US.