S1 Ep 12 - Adriana Bokel Herde - But Really, How Are You?

In this episode, Adriana talks about the ways COVID has changed the employee-employer relationship and the nature of engagement, the increased importance of the manager’s role in the hybrid workplace, and how innovation is the secret sauce to maximize engagement.

As Chief People Officer, Adriana Bokel Herde is responsible for Pega’s people strategy and operations. Adriana leads the company’s efforts to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, directing teams focused on talent attraction, career development, performance management, benefits, mental and physical well-being, inclusion and diversity, and social impact. For more than twenty years, Adriana has held leadership positions in fast-growing companies and is recognized as an innovative, high-performing leader with the ability to architect, execute, and drive business growth. Her areas of expertise include business strategy, talent recruitment and development, diversity initiatives, change management, leadership development, operations, innovation, and employee experience. Prior to Pega, Adriana was Chief People Officer and Chief Evangelist Officer at PeopleDoc, an HR software provider, where she was responsible for sales enablement and customer advocacy in addition to internal people strategy. Prior to that, she was Vice President of People Services at Biogen. Born in Brazil, Adriana has held positions all over the world and is fluent in English, Portuguese, and German. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.A. in Adult Educational Psychology & Educational Psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, and a Clinical Psychology degree from Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro, earned in conjunction with two years of study at UCLA. She is currently a lecturer at MIT and is on the board of Empirical Hire, a developer of AI tools to improve candidate screening.

Silicon Valley based company Innovation Minds takes a crucial step in helping  solve the new challenges of the post-pandemic global workplace by launching this podcast, in which we interviews a diverse offering of business leaders from around the planet on how to use innovation to engage the workforce, as well as how to innovate engagement using technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning to humanize relationships in the new distributed workplace.

Innovation Minds is a leader in using AI-driven technology to engage employees through their philosophy of Innovation At the Edge, and decided to launch this podcast to promote the urgent need for engagement at this delicate time.

Guests for our first season include corporate HR leads, world-class consultants, best-selling authors, and employee engagement and innovation experts working across a wide range of industries: Clint Pulver, Themba Chakela Jamie NotterMaddie Grant Delano Johnson Shawn Nason Luke Jamieson Coonoor Behal Jeff Tobe Niven Postma Adriana Bokel Herde Sindhu Joseph and Dickson Tang

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