Ex-Google HR Boss & CHRO At Oura: Why Most Companies get People Completely Wrong!

About this episode

Judy Gilbert discusses her unique approach to HR and the common misconceptions companies have about managing people.

This week on Truth Works, my co-host Jeff Markowitz and I sit down with Judy Gilbert, the Chief People Officer of Oura, the company behind the Oura Ring. Judy is not a typical HR leader. She started her career at McKinsey, moved into executive search at Egon Zehnder, and then spent 12 years inside Google's People Operations team, helping scale the company from roughly 3,000 employees to 70,000. Along the way she ran learning and development, ran performance management, and served as head o...

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Host: Jeff Markowitz

Guest: Judy Gilbert

Topics covered

• HR leadership
• employee management
• company culture
• performance management
• learning and development

Keywords

• HR
• Oura Ring
• employee growth
• performance management
• company scaling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oura, McKinsey, Egon Zehnder, Google

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