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Had a great couple of days at the Future of Team Summit, hosted by the Retreat team! Special thank-you to Shun Yamada and Jack Tadami for facilitating such a fantastic event 🎉 Thank you to all of the panelists and participants who shared valuable insight on Remote Work practices, Pay Equity, AI use in HR, the future of HR, and much more 🙌 Cheers to new connections and friends 🥂  Cecily W., Rachel DeSimone, Vanesa Cotlar, MBA, Kaitlyn Knopp, Melanie Naranjo, Stacey Nordwall, Alex Hilleary, Michaela Kolackova, Anessa Fike, Jennifer Kim, Lauren Dai, Matt Hoffman, Yin Wu, and many more!

Grateful for these opportunities to continue to grow, learn and build community with some incredible HR experts! 👏 Yesterday in Napa the People Ops Leaders and Retreat hosted a "Future of Team" summit for 100 HR leaders. There were thoughtfully curated panels that highlighted 🔥 HOT TOPICS 🔥 in HR: 🗣 What is productivity? 🤖 Will AI take our HR jobs? 😱 The never ending Return to Office debate 💰 Pay Transparency Thrilled to finally meet Melanie Naranjo, Kim Minnick, Stacey Nordwall and Anessa Fike in REAL LIFE! 🤗 💝 #futureofwork #futureofteam #hr #peopleops

Successful People Operations Leaders event yesterday in Napa put on by Retreat! So great getting to see some familiar faces and many news ones and talk about the future of HR. Grateful for this community of humans that care deeply about humans and building generational companies. Shun Yamada Melanie Naranjo Lauren Dai Cheri Martin Kevin Mendoza Tim Abraham, MA Annie Wu Amirissa M. Katie Horne

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who participated in the "Future Team Summit."🎉 Special thanks to our sponsors, Cocoon Lauren Dai, who supported the summit. Ian White, ChartHop who constantly mentored and encouraged us, To Alex Hilleary, we prepared this Summit together and handled all sessions🙌 To all the founders who participated in the sessions despite their busy schedules, To serial entrepreneurs Tom Griffiths and Yin Wu and Kaitlyn Knopp also helped with online sessions, To Jennifer Kim, adjusting your busy schedule just for a session. And to Vanesa Cotlar, MBA, who has believed in us since the early days of our community and has led us, to Melanie Naranjo, who always treats us with kindness and shares positive insight and happiness with everyone, to Stacey Nordwall who always provides terrific feedback and support us, and to Matt Hoffman who offered valuable session and VC insights, and to Anessa Fike share sharp perspectives, and organized special book signing session, to Theresa Joseph our fellow companions running ahead of us. To Michaela Kolackova, who led as the community manager for this event, to our Retreat companions Shun Yamada Yamada and Lorena Manrique Manrique, and to those who came to the event—Harleigh Gabrielson , Janet Lee , Cecily W. Jess P. Leonard P., Sara Wong snd Kim Minnick —thank you very much. This event was made possible thanks to every one of you who participated. Thank you so much. Although the time was short, I hope this summit was a meaningful experience for all of you. In this rapidly changing era, HR cannot easily manage remote and distributed teams alone. However, your daily efforts ensure fair opportunities for all, fair evaluations, and a world without disparities regardless of where one is born or lives. Without People ops, the “future of work” and “future of teams” cannot be realized. We look forward to continuing this movement with you😎 Thank you again. People Ops Leaders

Last week, I had the privilege of attending Retreat's "The Future of Team" summit in Napa. There were incredible panelists like Vanesa Cotlar, MBA, Stacey Nordwall, Anessa Fike, Kaitlyn Knopp, Melanie Naranjo, and many more, discussing trending topics like Pay transparency and utilizing AI in the workplace. I am so grateful for these opportunities to connect, learn, and grow with the HR community. Shoutout to meeting up with both new and familiar faces 🎉 Kim Minnick, Jess P. Leonard, Joseph Yeh, Holly Hatlo, Stefanie Fackrell (she/her), many of whom are part of the amazing StartupExperts group!

We had so much fun at the Future of Team Summit in Napa yesterday 🍇Alongside 60+ People leaders, Lauren Dai and Jaakko Iso-Järvenpää had the chance to meet some of our incredible customers in person (shout out to Ed Snook from Mysten Labs and the Lattice team!) While we loved chatting with everyone, our favorite moment was hearing from a People Ops leader about their experience using our paid leave benchmarks tool to expand their parental leave policy at their start up 🫶🏻 Thanks for hosting such a great day Retreat!

Last week, our Founder & CEO, Ian White, spoke at The Future of Team Summit on the CEO-CPO relationship, building HR tech with AI, and how he's seen the HR tech market evolve over the past five years. 🙏 Thank you to the Retreat team for hosting this awesome event!

Spending time with other people people inspires me! The Future of Team Summit hosted by People Ops Leaders was incredibly insightful. The room was a mix of HR leaders and founders and the panels and conversations were incredible. Jack Tadami and Shun Yamada did a fantastic job in bringing this community together. I am grateful I was able to share some thoughts on how HR can innovate with AI. I think about AI as our smartest intern - super helpful but still requiring oversight and training. For me and my team introducing repeatable workflows via Kindo and being able to co-create a new performance review process alongside Hypercontext have been game-changers for our team's efficiency and the support we can offer managers! If you haven't started the journey yet, don't worry. Just start playing with the least sensitive items so you can get familiar - I suggest using information already publicly available (e.g., creating 30-60-90 day plans by using job descriptions). A few highlights from the day: - The CEO and CPO relationship can be an extremely strong one. It is up to both sides to communicate their needs clearly and work on building a deeply trusting relationship. - The CEO and CPO metrics need to be aligned. That is key for a consistent business and people strategy. - When HR leaders go to their CEOs, it is important to remember that CEOs have a lot more on their plate beyond the people function. Be succinct on what you need and where possible, send pre-reads / share data. - The more HR focuses on ARR, the closer we are to the business. Think about the people strategy and issues in terms of how they affect company strategy. It was great seeing familiar faces as well as meeting some incredible new humans! You were the highlight of my time: Kim Minnick, Ian White, Alex Hilleary, Anessa Fike, Jennifer Kim, Kaitlyn Knopp, Lauren Dai, Melanie Naranjo, Matt Hoffman, Michaela Kolackova, Mikaela Zaffino, Rachel DeSimone, Stacey Nordwall, Yin Wu, Lisah Barry, Cecily W.! #hr #leadership #peers