Angela Crossman (Chief People Officer, Brex) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about her journey into HR (non profit admin, massage therapist, & consultant), bringing your internal & external listening data together, and getting creative with offsites. Timestamps: (2:00) Good news stories (5:03) Her career journey (13:17) Why we should be jealous that she gets to work at Brex (16:30) Their fully-flexible work model (20:00) The HR Team’s structure at Brex (23:16) Dog fooding at Brex (25:30) Overcoming myths around what’s “not working” with their globally distributed team (30:12) The skills she gained from her time as a Chief of Staff for multiple executives (33:20) Bringing all of the internal and external listening data together (36:40) The employee listening tech stack (39:35) Advice to HR leaders on improving their people analytics (43:00) Why off-sites are core to Brex & how they’ve gotten creative with different formats (48:06) How she defines a Modern People Leader (49:20) The career advice she’d give her 22-year-old self Subscribe to the MPL Weekly Digest: https://forms.gle/qdt6YaWULfoEHb6n8 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-modern-people-leader

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