HR Happy Hour

Hosted by Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane, the HR Happy Hour show is the longest running and top downloaded HR podcast.

Over the last decade the HR Happy Hour has welcomed a wide and exceptionally impressive array of guests – HR leaders, Academics, practitioners, consultants, and authors – to talk about the most timely, relevant, and challenging issues that are influencing HR technology, impacting organizations, and driving change in the global workplace today.

Hosted by

Steve Boese

Co-Founder of H3 HR Advisors and Program Chair, HR Technology Conference

Trish McFarlane

CEO and Principal Analyst, H3 HR Advisors

HR Happy Hour Episodes

HR Happy Hour 444 – Sustaining Innovation in the Modern HR Function

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Melissa Harper from Bayer, a global life science company with over 100K employees in over 100 countries to talk about innovation in HR and how to keep your employees engaged during a tough operating environment.

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HR Happy Hour 443 – Inclusion: More Than a Buzz Word (Part 2)

This week on the HR Happy Hour, we are sharing part 2 of a conversation with Sarah Morgan, CEO of Buzz-A-Rooney.

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HR Happy Hour 442- Learning Along the Digital Journey with Honeywell

Today on the HR Happy Hour Show, Trish and was joined by Mark Burgess, Sr. Director of HR Technology Solutions at Honeywell. The episode was recorded at Oracle Open World 2019.

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HR Happy Hour 441 – Inclusion: More Than a Buzz Word

This week on the HR Happy Hour, we are sharing part 1 of a conversation with Sarah Morgan, CEO of Buzz-A-Rooney.

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HR Happy Hour 440 – The Impact of Coronavirus on HR and the New Normal of Work

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we are sharing a conversation with Jeanne Meister of Future Workplace and Alison Stevens from Paychex from a recent Human Resource Executive Ask HRE Live Stream hosted by Steve.

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HR Happy Hour 439 – Leadership Lessons from Gettysburg

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Dick Richardson and Rebecca Ray to talk about the Gettysburg Leadership Experience, an amazing experiential learning experience for leaders and teams, some of the important lessons about leadership that we can learn from the actual Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, and how they can apply to our careers and organizations today.

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HR Happy Hour 438 – Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: Everest

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by long time friend of the show Cecile Alper-Leroux to talk about the 2015 movie “Everest” in the return of the Workplace Movie Hall of Fame series.

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HR Happy Hour 437 – Communication and Workforce Engagement During a Crisis

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Regine Buettner of DHL Express, a global company with presence in 220 countries and 104K employees, to discuss the importance of focusing on employee communication during a crisis and working to make sure the front-line workforce feels safe and informed.

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HR Happy Hour 436 – Enabling Virtual Hiring with Modern HR Technology

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Vivek Ravisankar from HackerRank to discuss the rapid shift to 100% virtual hiring, how modern HR technology tools can support HR and TA leaders with fully remote hiring, and how remote work will enable many more companies to build deep and diverse teams and reduce bias.

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