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Lessons from overcoming grief with Leslie Oquendo

2024-04-0335:56

Leslie Oquendo is an author and now works at Salesforce in business development – after spending 4+ years in talent acquisition and people/culture roles. He joins us on the Gathering podcast to discuss how grief can be part of both the candidate job hunting process and the role which hiring teams play. Leslie’s own journey through grief was […]

Shawn Draisey – Recruitment Consultant

2024-01-2301:16:10

Shawn Draisey is a recruitment consultant with a wealth of experience growing teams for all types of interesting industries. He’s worked with chicken processing automation companies, tire sellers, cannabis cultivators, point-of-sales systems and many other companies through his career – mainly focused on talent acquisition. For this session of StartWell’s Gathering podcast, host Qasim Virjee is […]

Roy Wainer – Founder of Townish

2024-01-0153:39

Roy Wainer’s career history began with roles in financial operations – he always loved enabling growth for early stage companies and along the way that meant helping teams get larger. In this episode of the Gathering Podcast from StartWell, we explore how Roy helped a company called Platterz, which used to be in catering, scale to […]

Adam Gellert – Co-founder & CEO of Hired Hippo

2023-07-1848:36

Adam Gellert is the Founder and CEO of Hired Hippo, the leading Canadian marketplace for high potential go-to-market job candidates. Taking a unique approach to hiring, Hired Hippo matches candidates with companies through understanding the intent and competencies of candidates whilst also developing a deep understanding of the job opportunities. This process results in hiring […]

Becca Lo – Ace Beverage Group

2023-04-1747:34

For this, the 20th episode of StartWell’s Gathering series we sit down with Becca Lo, the Toronto based People & Culture Manager at Ace Beverage Group. Becca went to university for education – but a career in teaching seemed daunting to her as she approached graduation. A temporary role testing products for a startup called […]

Nicola Watson – TribalScale [Gathering ep.19]

2023-03-1452:47

In this, the 19th episode of StartWell’s Gathering series, Nicola Watson joins us to share the story of how her career in HR has evolved. Previous experience in recruitment led her to larger roles in HR at Ryanair in her native Ireland before becoming the HR manager at a Toronto based remote-first software development consultancy […]

Jordyn Benattar (Speakwell) [Gathering Podcast Ep.17]

2023-01-2632:02

For the 17th episode of StartWell’s Gathering Podcast we sit down with Toronto-based public speaking and communications expert, Jordyn Benattar. Jordyn’s working history began at age 3 when she was cast in television commercials and then feature films as a child actor. Her ease with cast and crew working on camera prepared her for a career in public […]

Martin Hauck (The People People Group) [Gathering Podcast, Ep.16]

2023-01-2659:05

Martin Hauck joins us in studio for StartWell’s Gathering Podcast to discuss the current state of hiring – and how his community of ‘people people‘ shares knowledge to survive this tumultuous time for HR professionals. Currently the Head of Talent at Caseware, Martin has had a decade-plus career in HR, which started when he was […]

Lorena Perry [Gathering Podcast Ep.15]

2023-01-2650:27

For this episode of StartWell’s Gathering Podcast we sit down with Lorena Perry – the Director for IT Staffing in Canada at Judge Group who place candidates in both contract and permanent roles. Sharing both personal experience and insights into her work; Lorena has recommendations for how recent immigrants to Canada looking for work may […]

Stephen Shedletzky, aka ‘Shed’ [Gathering Podcast Ep.14]

2023-01-2001:15:56

Stephen Shedletzky, aka ‘Shed’ is a speaker, writer, coach, facilitator and advisor who has worked with Simon Sinek for a decade and now helps leaders listen to and nurture the voices of others with the aim of developing cultures where people feel safe, encouraged, and rewarded to speak up. In this episode of the StartWell […]

Sam Cross (Sr Technical Recruiter, Unity) [Gathering Podcast Ep.13]

2023-01-1701:07:43

Sam Cross is a Senior Recruiter with Unity Technologies – the world’s leading platform for developing interactive real-time 3d content. Previously, she worked at Ubisoft, Drake International, Guru Studio and Rockstar Games – her passion for video games has evolved into a career within the industry that has included everything from UI/UX testing to recruiting. […]

Emma Hunt (Senior Talent Advisor, Bloom)[Gathering Podcast Ep.12]

2023-01-1240:12

Emma Hunt is a senior talent advisor with Bloom – a workplace design consultancy based in Toronto but with a globally dispersed team. Bloom runs training for internal and external recruiters and hr professionals on topics like Diversity and Equity Inclusion and in this episode of StartWell’s Gathering series Emma shares her perspectives on all […]

Jay Goldman (CEO & Co-founder, Sensei Labs)[Gathering Podcast Ep.11]

2023-01-1201:00:19

For this, the 11th episode of StartWell’s Gathering podast, we sat down with Jay Goldman – the founder and CEO of Sensei Labs. Sensei Labs was spun out of Toronto’s life sciences brand development company Klick Health – initially they commercialized an internal intranet and then evolved it into its own enterprise SaaS offering called […]

Swish Goswami (Co-founder & CEO, Surf)[Gathering Podcast Ep.10]

2022-12-0655:24

Swish is an accomplished young entrepreneur who has won awards, struck product development deals and published a book. Most recently, he’s been focusing on growing a company he co-founded called Surf, which lets people passively earn from the data they share whilst browsing the web. This conversation for our Gathering podcast, introduces Swish’s company and […]

Dave Cairns (SVP, Office Leading, CBRE)[Gathering Podcast Ep.9]

2022-12-0601:01:02

For this the 9th episode of StartWell’s Gathering Podcast, Dave Cairns joins us in our Toronto studio to discuss the state of the office leasing market and shares his perspective about how companies need to rethink why they provide space for their staff. Formerly a Toronto based broker, Dave moved to Prince Edward Island for […]

Reza Rahimi (Senior Director, Payments and Payroll Products – Wave) [Gathering Podcast ep.8]

2022-11-2501:10:18

Wave is one-stop money management for small business owners. In this episode we sit down with Reza who oversees Payroll and Payment products at this Toronto based company. Reza has been at Wave for 6+ years, and the company has always had a great social atmosphere in their office (which is located in Leslieville – […]

Max Chen (Manager, eComm Performance – Sonder) [Gathering Podcast ep.7]

2022-11-2301:36:38

Originally from Thailand, Max has lived and worked all over the world. He studied Hospitality in Switzerland before working with companies like Expedia in the Middle East and Africa and has most recently joined Sonder – a company founded in Montreal which now operates over 6,000 short term rental units globally. In this conversation we […]

Cheli Nolan (Head of People – Relay) [Gathering Podcast ep.6]

2022-11-1542:51

Relay is a Toronto based ‘business banking and money platform’ with international clients – many of whom are located in the United States. As Relay’s Head of People, Cheli joined us for the Gathering Podcast to share the company’s experiences through the pandemic committing to a larger office space in downtown Toronto and experimenting with […]

Amanda Cupido (Lead Podcasting) [Gathering Podcast ep.5]

2022-11-1550:59

Amanda Cupido is an award-winning podcast producer, radio executive, university instructor, author, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Lead Podcasting, a full-service podcast production company that specializes in developing podcasts for thought leaders and organizations. In addition, Amanda is the program director at AM 640 Toronto, where she leads a team of producers and […]

Sylvia Smiley (Zulu Alpha Kilo)[Gathering Podcast ep.4]

2022-11-1552:00

How does a creative agency manage to grow its talent pool and engage its people despite being distributed across a country? In this episode of StartWell’s Gathering podcast we hear from Sylvia Smiley whose job it is to attract talent to the full-service-agency of Zulu Alpha Kilo, and hear about their value for relationships, new […]

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