Gathering StartWell

Eric Hutchinson is a senior HR advisor, consultant & coach educated in psychology with a specific interest in cognition. For this episode of the Gathering Podcast we talk about systems design for HR, remote work and new complexities which HR staff need to consider to manage working teams. *Video version here.

Leslie Oquendo is an author and now works at Salesforce in business development – after spending 4+ years in talent acquisition and people/culture roles. He joins us on the Gathering podcast to discuss how grief can be part of both the candidate job hunting process and the role which hiring teams play. Leslie’s own journey through grief was […]

Shawn Draisey is a recruitment consultant with a wealth of experience growing teams for all types of interesting industries. He’s worked with chicken processing automation companies, tire sellers, cannabis cultivators, point-of-sales systems and many other companies through his career – mainly focused on talent acquisition. For this session of StartWell’s Gathering podcast, host Qasim Virjee is […]

Roy Wainer’s career history began with roles in financial operations – he always loved enabling growth for early stage companies and along the way that meant helping teams get larger. In this episode of the Gathering Podcast from StartWell, we explore how Roy helped a company called Platterz, which used to be in catering, scale to […]

Adam Gellert is the Founder and CEO of Hired Hippo, the leading Canadian marketplace for high potential go-to-market job candidates. Taking a unique approach to hiring, Hired Hippo matches candidates with companies through understanding the intent and competencies of candidates whilst also developing a deep understanding of the job opportunities. This process results in hiring […]

For this, the 20th episode of StartWell’s Gathering series we sit down with Becca Lo, the Toronto based People & Culture Manager at Ace Beverage Group. Becca went to university for education – but a career in teaching seemed daunting to her as she approached graduation. A temporary role testing products for a startup called […]