HR keeps getting scapegoated for executive decisions. Trina Sunday, founder of Reimagine HR, explains why HR isn’t the empathy department and why capability isn't neutral.
Mel and Michelle talk with Trina Sunday, creator of the HEART Work™ Model, about why equity and empathy are leadership capabilities that sit alongside decision intelligence and system design. Trina argues that HR leaders, and the CEOs they work with, need a clear answer to one question: what are we using our intelligence, credibility, and influence to serve?
Truth Bomb: Fix the system, don’t fix women.
What you’ll learn
Why HR so often gets scapegoated by executive teams that don’t take accountability for their own decisions
Why a seat at the table gives you proximity to power without automatically giving you influence
Why leadership carries a different price depending on who is doing it, and what organisations need to examine as a result
How Trina defines a boundary, and what holding hers has cost her
Why Trina tells HR leaders who won’t use their influence to get out of the game
About the guestTrina Sunday is a human-first leadership strategist, founder of Reimagine HR and creator of the HEART Work™ Model. She works with HR and people and culture leaders through her Game Changer HR Leader coaching program, and hosts the People Unconference (PUNC) in Perth, Western Australia.
About the hostsMichelle Redfern is a gender equity strategist and author of The Leadership Compass. Mel Butcher is a consultant and facilitator with an engineering background and more than 15 years of experience. Both women are mission-driven to teach women the business, strategic and financial acumen it takes to reach leadership.
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