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America Back to Work: Alex Genetti, Enable
The Future of Workplace Flexibility
In this week’s episode of America Back to Work, Arnette Heintze sits down with Alex Genetti, a seasoned HR professional and the head of people at Enable, a fast-growing rebate solution software company. Alex shares her comprehensive experience and key strategies for managing rapid organizational growth, the evolution of workplace culture, the hybrid work model, and the importance of data-driven HR practices. Plus, insights into Enable’s effective onboarding strategies and their efforts in professional development amidst budget restraints.
What You’ll Learn
- The Evolution of HR and Current Challenges: Expectations of employees are changing as more companies shift toward remote or hybrid work setups. Balancing on-site and remote preferences to maintain productivity and company culture is also challenging.
- The Strategic Value of HR: The importance of using data to demonstrate the strategic value of HR, including cost implications of employee turnover and retention strategies.
- Effective Onboarding Techniques: The significance of a robust onboarding process, known at Enable as “Enable U,” is designed to bring employees up to speed and fully integrated into the company culture.
- Work-Life Balance and Employee Support: Strategies for supporting employees in high-pressure environments, including clear communication of expectations and providing necessary resources for success.
- Sustaining and Enhancing Company Culture Amid Rapid Growth: How Enable redefined its core values to foster a supportive and unified company culture through rapid expansion phases.
- Employee Development and Professional Growth: The development of internal resources for learning and the implementation of external partnerships to provide continuous learning opportunities for employees.
- Trends in Hiring and Retention: Alex reflects on the trends of international hiring and the potential adjustments in compensation models according to geographic locations.
- Alex’s Early Career Insights: A light-hearted revelation about Alex’s brief stint in sales, which shaped her career trajectory toward HR.
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S2Verify is one of the leading, privately held, pre-employment background screening companies in the United States.
Arnette Heintze is co-founder and chief strategy officer at S2Verify. Before establishing S2Verify, Arnette spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
He served more than 20 years in the United States Secret Service as a special agent and senior executive where he planned, designed, and implemented security strategies to protect U.S. Presidents, world leaders, events of national significance, and our nation’s most sensitive assets, including financial infrastructure.
After retiring from the Secret Service, Arnette focused on building the growth and performance of innovative start-ups and SMBs. In 2004, he established Hillard Heintze, a globally recognized strategic security risk management and investigations firm.
In 2009, along with Bill Whitford and Jim Zimbardi, Arnette established S2 Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.