Compensation Review: Why Focusing on Growth is Smarter Than Focusing on Money

As we move into the second quarter of the year, I would like to share my reflections on working in Compensation & Benefits (C&B) in the first three months of the year. The first quarter can be akin to the holiday season for many HR departments. Not because they get showered in lovingly-selected gifts from […]



Use your curiosity, not AI

Let’s start with the obvious: why on earth would anyone use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to understand how to tailor rewards? You might think there’s an obvious answer to that, but hear me out! I often find myself having a ‘facepalm moment’ when time-after-time salespeople contact me insisting that the solutions they offer use advanced tech […]





Social at Spotify – what’s it all about?

Social at Spotify

HR: Social a.k.a. Employee Engagement I often get introduced to either new Spotifiers or those outside of Spotify as head of fun! It’s a very nice introduction and I do have (and encourage others to have) a lot of fun at work, but the job title/description is not exactly accurate! Me and my team have […]


Names & Numbers

I can’t estimate how much comp data I reviewed the past 10 years: benchmark, benchmark, benchmark, and individual comp in mass. A lot of names as well, but I’m terrible at names – I put sticky notes on the colleagues next to me so I can act like a decent person. But behind all people […]