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Since 2017, Robin Ducot has been working as the Chief Technology Officer at Momentive. Momentive is an agile experience management company that provides cloud-based software services and solutions and is also the developer of SurveyMonkey. Ducot has led the engineering and infrastructure departments of the organization over the past five years. She collaborates with product, design, and … Read full-story

There are of course benefits and drawbacks to most major paradigm changes, and the shift for a large portion of our workforce going remote is no different. Here’s what several companies that have adapted to remote plans learned about the shift both good and bad. What are some of the more foundational challenges your team … Read full-story

Maria Reis is a vital part of LG Electronics North America’s Human Resources team. She holds the Head of Compensation and Benefits position, making her responsible for creating an employee-centered working environment. She has successfully created a work culture that focuses on the happiness and prosperity of every employee, making it a desirable place to … Read full-story

Business expansions rely on a lot of things, and while some organizations lost ground during the earth-shaking pandemic, there were others that were standing on just the right piece of shaking turf to leap forward from. Here’s how and – if possible – why these companies have come out the other end of this worldwide … Read full-story

With the paradigm shift to remote work as a kind of new normal, working-from-elsewhere has increasingly become a desired feature of any job, it’s worth taking a look at some of the ways that this massive transformation has affected things associated with work – like internships. The necessary shift to virtual internships for many companies … Read full-story

Christina Luconi is the Chief People Officer at Rapid7. She’s built her career on her ability to help startups accelerate growth by developing people strategies that allow companies to “scale with soul”. From establishing shared values to navigating global expansions and public offerings, her expertise has helped companies like Sapient (now Publis.Sapient) and @stake (acquired … Read full-story

Before joining The Hollister Group, Karla Driskill developed mentoring programs between businesses and individuals including college students and women entrepreneurs. Driskill’s passion during those years was supporting women in the workplace—something that remains vitally important to her. But the year 2012 marked a turning point in Driskill’s career when she met The Hollister Group Founder … Read full-story

As the Great Resignation continues at full blast despite our attempts to rename it or spin it out of existence, here’s to a batch of companies that understand how mentorship passes on the essential human knowledge that hardwires the future in via dedicated new generations of employees. What does great mentorship add to your company? … Read full-story

At IBM, diversity plays a core role in the way employees approach their company culture. By employing a group of diversity and inclusion leaders along with an array of business resource groups, the company can scale its strategy while staying true to its belief that a diverse, inclusive workforce is a stronger workforce.  The company’s … Read full-story

Constance Rodts, who serves as Executive General Counsel for GE Gas Power, began her career more than 25 years ago as a private practice attorney. After graduating from law school, Rodts passed the bar exam in both Texas and Georgia, then worked for a little over a decade as a commercial litigator at a variety of firms … Read full-story

It’s always impressive when a company can retain employees, who are constantly being bombarded from within and without about the potential of taking other jobs. But to do so well during the era we’ve come to call The Great Resignation (which continues to this day) is doubly impressive. Let’s hear how these four companies have … Read full-story

With Juneteenth – now a federal holiday – falling on Sunday, June 19th (the official day) and Monday, June 20th (for observance,) Comparably wanted to check in with clients for a roll call of companies truly dedicated to helping make right what has long been made wrong in this country for Black employees and communities. … Read full-story

Allowing people to fully embrace love for their pets as companions, therapeutic sidekicks, and even children is really about embracing one of the most benevolent human traits: the tendency to feel for compassion and empathy for those we feel we have in our charge. And cat and dog owners know, especially, that a few of … Read full-story

With 25 years of experience in healthcare working for global brands like Johnson & Johnson and Abbott Laboratories, Jeff Castillo was thrilled with the opportunity to join Medela, a family-owned global organization focused on the science of care. Combining his professional background with the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and his own experience as a … Read full-story

TextNow is a leading mobile application providing free cellular and phone services to millions of users worldwide. As their Chief Product Officer, Dave Chiang oversees engineering, product, and analytics to help TextNow scale faster. Chiang is helping to improve TextNow’s digital communications platform as the company grows, using his 20+ years of experience developing and … Read full-story

Here’s how these thoughtful modern companies extend equality and consideration to LGBTQ employees and communities today and throughout the year. What are some of the ways that your company supports LGBTQ+ employees and communities? GE Power supports the LGBTQAI+ community through the Pride Alliance employee resource group (ERG). The Pride Alliance has a mission to … Read full-story

What does a company or corporation – whose main purpose is to make money for itself, its employees, and its investors – owe the world at large? Thankfully, by dint of sheer force of good will from the vigilant US population, companies know that the good works we expect of every U.S. citizen also apply … Read full-story

AN ENTREPRENEUR FROM THE BEGINNING Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Kevin Miller was surrounded by people who would eventually influence his career to become the co-founder and CEO of GR0, the fastest-growing SEO agency in the nation. He follows in the footsteps of his father, who served as the CEO of Budget Rent-A-Car during … Read full-story

Major changes to our ways of life and work can, to those willing to be open-minded, represent major new opportunities. For businesses like these three, the pandemic shook things to the core, often breaking up sediment and allowing for rapid growth or evolution that “normal” business cycles might not have allowed. Here are a handful … Read full-story

For many working moms, 9-5 is all business, but they’re putting in overtime keeping their families fed, happy and healthy. See how these five companies prioritize and support their working mothers! What do working mothers mean to Appian? At Appian, working mothers represent innovation. Becoming a working mother has given our leaders compassion and empathy … Read full-story

IN THE BEGINNING Karmela Gaffney recalls first encountering the then-new world of digital space via the online PDF brochures for the websites of the hotels she worked for in her early career. She recalls telling her hotel owners at Best Western International that they needed to be in on the digital environment. She was in … Read full-story