Adam Ward, Founding Partner at Growth by Design Talent joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the shortage of HR leaders out there, how to be a trusted advisor to your CEO as a CPO, and how to run a structured job search. ---- This episode was brought to you by Metaview – the AI assistant for interviewing. Try Metaview for free here. ---- (3:06) Good news stories (8:00) Adam’s journey in Talent Acquisition: Facebook, Qualcomm, Pinterest, and founding Growth by Design Talent (13:00) Growth by Design Talent (15:40) Why we should be jealous he gets to work at Growth by Design Talent (17:25) The state of the union for talent (21:25) Advice to people leaders right now (25:00) The different styles of influencing (30:00) Employees want to know what’s expected of them and where they stand with their leader (33:58) We’re facing a huge shortage of CHROs and Chief People Officers (36:00) The attributes of a trusted advisor (42:34) Having a structured job search framework (49:48) Rapid fire questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 🛎 Follow Adam Ward on LinkedIn 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn

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