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HRx Radio – Executive Conversations

Guest: Joey Price, Founder and CEO, Jumpstart:HR

Episode: 325

Air Date: May 3, 2019

Transcript

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00:00:13 :25 – 00:00:33 :17

Good morning and welcome to HR Examiner’s Executive Conversations, I’m your host John Sumser and today we’re going to be talking with Joey Price, who’s the founder and CEO of Jump Start HR (among seventy five other things). And so we’re going to get into who he is and what he does. Hi Joey.

00:00:35 :06 – 00:00:39 :13

Hey John, it’s a pleasure. I just hung all my 75 hats at home.

00:00:39 :16 – 00:00:43 :07

So I’m excited to chat with you today about everything that’s going on.

00:00:43 :27 – 00:00:49 :27

So take a moment and give us a deep introduction, who are you, what do you do, what turns you on.

00:00:50 :09 – 00:01:27 :04

I am Joey Price founder of Jump Start HR, and at Jump Start we provide outsourcing and consulting services for small businesses and start ups the small businesses and start ups who want more than a handbook. But they really want those CHRO level eyes on their strategy and their business and I’ve had the company since 2011 so this would be our eighth year in business and we operate across the country with businesses all the way from California to D.C.

00:01:27 :29 – 00:01:58 :13

and that’s been fun. Offshoots of that have been my podcast. A podcast of business life and coffee where it’s a weekly conversation with entrepreneurs or about things that outsource care about and then also I was an adjunct professor for awhile at Stony Brook University between graduate level eight are as well as sitting on the H.R. advisory board for the food business.

00:01:59 :04 – 00:02:33 :24

So those are just a few hats that are relevant and my wife definitely turns me on. To give us that out there. But. As it relates to H.R. I really passionate about small businesses competing against larger ones for talent and helping them scale and grow and really really fascinated around the conversation. Artificial Intelligence in ADR how to do it the right way. If I write we I mean ethically what are some of the moral forces around it.

00:02:34 :11 – 00:02:58 :29

And I’ve just always been kind of like the guy so combining my love of human performance and technology and seeing how they can both play well together in the long run shows you just named to the HRC through Magazine’s Top 100 computers futurism H.R. Kurt.

00:03:00 :06 – 00:03:05 :12

It was no surprise. What’s happened as a result.

00:03:05 :15 – 00:03:38 :11

Well yeah that came out a few weeks ago and it caught me by surprise in some way. There is the Fry Well I did. You never know a thing right. You never know who is listening to your soapbox or reading your material or are really influenced by what you have to say. So that was very surprising and humbling. And as far as what it’s meant for the newspaper the big answer honestly is I don’t know.

00:03:38 :11 – 00:04:31 :14

I’ve been approached by a few conferences that have said hey congratulations on being nominated. Keep us in mind for a speaker. Panelists are all though be a boy knows round but really it’s kind of like the fire that more you first do conversations around the role that the demons have with technology specifica