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America Back to Work: Jill Hauwiller, Leadership Refinery
Nurturing Talent and Retaining Top Performers In Your Organization
In this episode of America Back to Work, host Arnette Heintze talks with Jill Hauwiller, the mastermind behind Leadership Refinery.
Jill brings more than 25 years of expertise from her multifaceted career in HR and as a consultant. She helps high-potential leaders and high-performing teams achieve exceptional results through enhanced leadership.
Key Topics
- Evolution of HR Over the Years
- Transition from personnel management to strategic HR roles like “People Operations” and “Business Partners.”
- HR’s growing role in organizational leadership and culture.
- Critical Blind Spots in HR
- Importance of business acumen for HR professionals.
- How understanding business financials strengthens HR’s role in strategic decisions.
- Strategies for Retaining and Engaging Staff
- Developing and empowering managers to reduce turnover.
- The difference between managing and leading.
- Leadership Challenges and Solutions
- Emotional intelligence: A key focus area for effective leadership and team collaboration.
- High-performing teams and retention solutions Jill offers.
- Reflection in Leadership
- Incorporating reflection in leadership to promote self-awareness and intentionality.
- Aligning daily tasks with individual purpose and organizational values.
- Advice for HR Professionals
- Recognizing signs of misalignment in one’s career.
- Steps to discover and connect with personal “why.”
- Developing and staying accountable for personal development.
- AI and HR
- The role and affect of artificial intelligence in HR.
- Concerns and challenges regarding AI compliance in background screening.
Quotes
- “People don’t leave companies; they leave managers.”
- “Allowing reflection helps leaders connect with their purpose and make better decisions.”
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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,—oØ 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.