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America Back to Work: Belinda Waggoner, People People
How HR Fuels Growth
In this insightful episode of America Back to Work, Arnette Heintze welcomes Belinda Waggoner, founder and president of People People, an HR consultancy. In this conversation, we explore how HR can be a driving force for growth in businesses, especially in entrepreneurial settings. Belinda shares her professional journey from corporate HR to establishing her own consultancy aimed at helping smaller businesses harness the power of effective HR practices.
Key Takeaways
- Belinda explains how entrepreneurs often overlook the importance of HR in business growth and the potential pitfalls of neglecting this area.
- Insight into challenges faced by high-growth companies and how they can best address issues related to HR and team dynamics as they scale.
- Discussion on how a company’s culture evolves with growth and the role of HR in guiding and managing this change.
- Addressing the importance of employee well-being, especially in high-growth environments, and how HR can provide support.
- Challenges and strategies for managing HR processes during global expansion, emphasizing the need for local expertise.
- The critical role of ongoing leadership development and the potential misalignment in elevating top performers to management positions without proper preparation.
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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 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 S2Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.