What the FTE?

Insights from Certn’s What the FTE? podcast guests

Reinventing Trust: How Instant Verification Is Redefining Speed and Confidence in Hiring

Learn how to build trust through fair pay and performance-driven rewards, and how equity, transparency, and flexibility define modern compensation.

Optimizing Team Performance With Physics: Why HR Leaders are Moving Beyond Traditional Personality Tests

Forget personality tests. Wei Houng says your wiring is the real story. In this episode, we unpack how physics, not psychology, could be the future of team performance.

Designing Fair Pay: How To Connect Rewards, Trust, and Performance

Learn how to build trust through fair pay and performance-driven rewards, and how equity, transparency, and flexibility define modern compensation.

Beyond Hustle: Why Flow Beats Burnout in the Future of Work

Learn why Steven Puri walked away from Hollywood blockbusters and studio power to help remote teams cut through distraction and find flow.

Systems Eat Culture for Lunch: Operationalizing Corporate Values

Most companies talk about values. In this blog, Aubrey Blanche shows you how to embed them into hiring, performance, and culture so they actually drive business outcomes.

Radically Rethinking Top Talent: A Precision Playbook

Learn how KOHO rethinks strategic talent management by doubling down on the 50 roles that matter most – using coaching, clarity, and performance focus to drive impact.

Culture at the Edge: How to Lead When Everything’s Shifting

How to lead culture through mergers, layoffs, and change. HR leaders: learn from Stacy Parkinson’s playbook for trust, retention, and resilience.

Creating a Magnetic EVP: How Go Auto Creates Unmatched Employee Loyalty

What really drives loyalty in 2025? Brent Lazanik, VP of Talent Acquisition at Go Auto breaks down what a magnetic, purpose-led EVP looks like in action.

What Makes Or Breaks Executive Hiring

Executive hiring gone wrong? Learn what top teams do differently with insights from executive search pro Marianne Bulger on misalignment, culture add, and building trust early.

The Culture OS We Actually Need: Embodied Leadership

Burnout, breathwork, and a better way to lead. In this episode, Anitta Krishan shares how embodied leadership is reshaping what great leadership looks like in HR and beyond.

How Deel Built a World-Class Culture with Zero Office Space

Deel proves you can achieve hypergrowth without a single office. This deep-dive breaks down five actionable lessons that every remote-first HR team can put to work today.

What Happens When HR & IT Don’t Talk? Insider Fraud, Credential Leaks and the Cost of Misalignment

Still think cybersecurity isn’t an HR problem? Think again. In this deep dive, Certn’s Donal Greene and Darcy Healey unpack how HR and IT misalignment fuels risk, why background checks can’t be one-and-done, and what future-fit teams are doing to stay secure.