As a founder or cofounder leading a high-growth company, your business will likely reach a point where team expansion is necessary to continue on a trajectory of success, if it hasn’t already. There are several key factors that should go into the strategy behind hiring and retaining talent when you’re looking to scale up. The final choices you make about who is on your team, the roles they fill, and how best to manage and support them through their work will be key determinants in the continued growth and success of your business.

In partnership with BPM, we are thrilled to be joined by Jill Pappenheimer, Partner at BPM, and Stacy Litteral, Managing Director in HR Consulting Services at BPM, for a compelling discussion on how your business can leverage talent acquisition and retention to scale up. With the knowledge you’ll gain, your business will be able to make the most of its investment into talent, and the individuals on your team will have the tools and support they need to thrive alongside it!

Key Takeaways:

• Best practices for hiring in the early stages of business
• How to efficiently leverage HR technology for better employee experience
• How to motivate a distributed team and lead them to success

Jill Pappenheimer

Partner in HR Consulting at BPM

Jill Pappenheimer brings 30 years of experience supporting the people function for organizations ranging from large financial institutions to small entrepreneurial teams. In 2006, she began consulting with companies, and in 2012 she co-founded Options4Growth, a boutique-consulting firm bringing both outsourced Human Resources and Strategy Advising, combined with cloud based technology, to a broad range of clientele.

She has an extensive business management background giving her a unique perspective to traditional HR practices. Jill believes that you need to link people, with technology, and organizational goals and objectives in order to grow and thrive.

Jill has a passion for people and firmly believes that organizations of all sizes and types are successful when employees share in the creation of their roles and responsibilities and can see the link to the company initiatives, change happens, accountability and engagement occurs. In her experience working with some of the valleys top technology companies she truly believes that technology creates efficiency and must be part of any solution to achieve growth. But it’s people that feed corporate growth.

Stacy Litteral

Managing Director and Advisory of HR Services at BPM

Stacy has over 20 years of Human Resources and people strategy experience and is a Managing Director on BPM’s Advisory team. She brings depth and breadth of experience to the team, having worked within large corporations, as well as a small nonprofit organization – developing and driving business strategy and leading diverse teams to successful outcomes.

She has an extensive background in all areas of HR including compensation, benefits, employee relations and training, however her passion lies in the area of performance management and strategic alignment. Stacy believes no matter how large or small an organization is, people are the foundation of all success, and that it is necessary to connect individuals to organizational goals in order to meet and exceed objectives. She also believes alignment between employee’s personal values and goals with those of the organization – and effective dialogue around those shared goals – is a critical component.

Stacy is leading the initiative to bring to market BPM Link, a strategic performance tool that provides organizations and their employees an opportunity to align on strategic initiatives through a flexible and convenient web based platform. BPM Link brings together a coaching framework, transparency, regular feedback and accountability, in a simple and appealing way. Through the use of the tool, businesses can become agile, collaborative, inclusive, values driven and develop a unique and sustainable culture.

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