Tracy Jackson

If it was a newer employee, I would have just said, let's cut this person loose.

But we had enough history and experience with this person to know the difference.

So I think you have to be a discerning person in order to be in a role like HR, is to have an amount of discernment.

Yeah.

So when I left corporate America, one of the reasons that I left, well, first off, one of my favorite companies I've ever worked for, Sleep Train, we had sold the company, and I knew that I loved that company and the culture we were able to create.

I ran that HR department for over a dozen years.

And so...

being the top-down leadership and making sure that we can have the kind of culture we wanted.

So thinking about that is I wanted to continue to have a brand of HR like that.

And I tried working in a couple of other companies, but, you know, I felt like an imposter.

Like I am now...

being told to do something that I don't necessarily always feel like is in line with who I am.

And so I knew I wanted to have my own brand of HR and I knew what I wanted to do.

So I did.

So I started with HR easy.

And so we consult with small and medium sized businesses.

And it also allowed me to come out of being a leader in a corporate environment and be more of a thought leader in HR.

Right on.

Because now I don't represent an organization when I get up in front of people and talk about things like DEI issues, because I still speak about some of those things.

And I feel very passionate about certain things and having a corporate name and being an executive, you're speaking for them, whether you're speaking on their behalf or not.