Ex-LinkedIn CHRO: The Whiteboard Exercise That Built LinkedIn's Culture & The Question That Empowers Her Every Day

About this episode

Pat Wadors discusses her journey and insights on building a strong corporate culture at LinkedIn and beyond.

Pat Wadors, CHRO at Intuitive (the company behind the da Vinci surgical robot), the architect of LinkedIn's Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging framework known as DIBs, and the author of the 2024 Wiley book Unlock Your Leadership Story, joins Jessica Neal and Peter Clarke on Truth Works. From losing her mother during her freshman year of college and getting diagnosed with dyslexia in a career center conversation at LSU, to declaring at nineteen that she was going to run HR, Pat traces the unli...

People in this episode

Hosts: Jessica Neal, Peter Clarke

Guest: Pat Wadors

Topics covered

• Diversity
• Inclusion
• Leadership
• Human Resources
• Corporate Culture

Keywords

• Diversity
• Inclusion
• Leadership
• HR
• Corporate Culture
• Pat Wadors
• LinkedIn

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Intuitive, LinkedIn, Wiley

Places: LSU

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