Before You Touch the Spreadsheet: Ashley Dafel on What Actually Decides a PE-Backed Turnaround

Ashley Dafel has been the person PE firms call when a portfolio company is in trouble — sometimes before they fully understand how much trouble. As a CFO-turned-CEO across multiple PE-backed organizations, he’s refinanced failing companies, fired half a customer base, shut down manufacturing facilities, and taken EBITDA up tenfold. None of it started with the numbers. It started with the questions he asked before he ever accepted the role.

How Much Is Generational Friction Actually Costing You? Giselle Kovary on the Hidden Price of Getting This Wrong

Giselle Kovary has spent more than two decades researching what happens when five generations collide at work — and she has the data to put a number on it. As co-founder of NGen and now Head of Learning and Development at Optimus SBR, she’s made the case to executive teams and boards that generational friction isn’t a culture problem. It’s a revenue problem. Highly engaged organizations outperform on both growth and cost — and understanding what each generation actually needs is how you get there.

Leading in the Age of AI: Dessalen Wood on Hybrid Work, Culture & Change

On this episode of The Next Moves, host Joe Diubaldo sat down with Dessalen Wood, Chief People Officer at Syntax, to explore what it really takes to lead in this new era.

Jimmy Tristovski on Turning HR into a Scalable, Data-Driven Business Function

Jimmy Tristovski was initially bound for engineering and data, so he believed. Raised by a marathon swimmer, professional soccer player, and mechanical engineer father, Jimmy was heavily influenced by performance, discipline, and problem-solving. Now, he’s continually bringing systems thinking and performance measurement into HR.

5 Reasons to Build a Finance Interview Process

Much like wandering the grocery store without a list, hiring without a carefully crafted finance interview process is inefficient and costly.
You risk missing something, being dissatisfied with the results and having to start all over again. So if you want to improve your chances of hiring well, consider following