Rich Jacquet, Chief People Officer at Coursera, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how he always wanted to be in HR, dedicated learning days at Coursera, their internal leadership academy, AI in HR, and more. Timestamps: (5:53) Rich went to school wanting to be an HR person (13:28) The course he took on the history of the Ukraine region (17:35) Creating skills rubrics internally at Coursera (20:32) Dedicated learning days & their two global weeks of rest (23:57) The most in-demand jobs right now (27:55) Using AI to coach leaders (32:08) Driving alignment and effectiveness across their People Team of 75 people (34:40) Their leadership academy (37:30) The year of the manager at Coursera (39:55) Helping people build personal connections at work (42:50) Getting a heartbeat of what’s going on at your company (48:17) How Rich defines a Modern People Leader (49:50) The career advice he’d give his 22-year-old self Come hang out with us at Transform. Get $200 off your ticket here: https://transform.us/modern-people-leader/ 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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