Leapsome’s Luck Dookchitra, VP of People, and Jenny von Podewils, Co-founder & Co-CEO, joined us on The Modern People Leader.

We talked about the evolution of the manager role over the last 5-10 years, “Review Jams” at Leapsome, and how to make manager 1x1s better.

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(1:47) Good news stories

(6:55) The story behind what brought Luck to Leapsome

(11:58) What Leapsome does

(19:23) Defining the Chief People Officer role

(26:30) The 3 most important objectives they’re working on together as CEO and VP of People

(28:37) How Luck has approached her first 4 months as VP of People

(30:00) “Review Jams” at Leapsome and where the idea came from

(34:56) Going to slow to accelerate

(37:00) The product thinking and constant iteration at Leapsome

(43:19) The evolution of the manager role

(46:50) Commonalities of the best managers

(57:06) HR’s role in manager effectiveness

(59:15) Manager enablement days at Leapsome

(1:04:28) The 3 components of meaningful 1x1 meetings

(1:09:04) How to make 1x1s better 

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