Onboarding as a Chief People Officer with Guest Margot Lackenbauer

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07/17/25

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In this episode, co-host Mark Edgar connected with Margot Lackenbauer to learn more about her experience on-boarding as Chief People Officer with professional services firm BDO. Margot shares insights on the importance of focusing on building relationships, staying agile and the importance of understanding the language of the organization.

In the episode we refer to Michael Watkins’ book (from 1956!) The First 90 Days. You learn more here:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-first-90-days-updated-and-expanded-proven-strategies-for-getting-up-to-speed-faster-and-smarter-revised-michael-d-watkins/10608694

You can connect with Margot on LinkedIn here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/margotlackenbauer

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In this episode, co-hosts Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman connect to share their insights on the future of the HR operating model. With Moderna recently announcing that they are integrating their HR and Technology teams, organizations are leveraging AI as they look to do more with less.

Mark and Naomi refer to a couple of articles that you can find here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-moderna-merged-its-tech-and-hr-departments-95318c2a

https://medium.com/the-ready/from-service-to-product-a-smarter-way-for-hr-to-work-7aad883aa4fe

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