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Name: I loved this conversation between Christina Pasanen and Kate Barney, Chief People Officer of Smartly
Uploaded: 2026-07-01T17:49:03.952Z
Channel: Jen Holmstrom
Description: I loved this conversation between Christina Pasanen and Kate Barney, Chief People Officer of Smartly and former Head of HR for TikTok. Kate makes the bullish case for early-career talent (“no one ha

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I loved this conversation between Christina Pasanen and Kate Barney, Chief People Officer of Smartly and former Head of HR for TikTok. Kate makes the bullish case for early-career talent (“no one has a five-year-old without a one-year-old”), explains why the future of high-performance orgs is Space Needle-shaped, and shares why Smartly swapped a global HR ops hire for someone to build an HR agent instead. Check out the full episode in the comments.

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