What the FTE? Podcast by Certn | Insights on HR, Risk Management & Employee Experience
What the FTE?
Hosted by Andrew McLeod and team, What the FTE? is Certn’s podcast tackling the big questions about the future of work, risk management, and employee experience.
Whether you’re an HR leader, a talent acquisition newbie, or simply curious about how work is evolving, this podcast delivers practical insights to help you stay ahead and secure your seat at the table.
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Flexible Pay Future
Sean Paulseth, Head of Revenue, Canada at ZayZoon, is here to show why pay timing matters as much as pay level.
Rethinking Titles and Talent
Alison Kaizer, Partner, Talent at Golden Ventures is one of today’s most incisive thinkers on early stage hiring.
The Risk Inside Hiring
Cybersecurity founder Simon Wijckmans talks about how AI and remote hiring have changed where risk shows up inside companies.
The 1% Energy Edge
Andy talks with wellness strategist and energy coach Rich Ellis, whose approach to executive performance starts with the body.
Kill the CV
Former Australian Army Captain turned HR disruptor, Josh Hill, joins us to dismantle outdated hiring systems.
The Bold New Metric: Talent Replenishment Ratio
Rolando Lopez drops a bold new metric: Talent Replenishment Ratio – the hidden signal most leaders aren’t tracking.
How Instant Verification Is Redefining Speed in Hiring
Chris Milligan, CEO of Konfir, unpacks a quiet revolution: instant employment and income verification. It is not just faster. It is better all round.
Optimizing Team Performance With Physics
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.
Making Comp Make Sense
From building salary bands from scratch to navigating the messy truth of transparency, Katy shares how fairness, trust, and storytelling intersect inside a modern reward strategy.
The Battle for Focus
Steven Puri walked away from Hollywood blockbusters and he’s now on a mission to help remote teams cut through distraction and find flow.
Systems Eat Culture for Lunch
Aubrey Blanche, global inclusion strategist and founder of The Mathpath, tackles one of HR’s most stubborn challenges: operationalising values.
Radically Rethinking Top Talent
Dan Eberhard, CEO and founder of one of Canada’s fastest-growing fintechs, unpacks a radically different approach to talent strategy.
Culture Under Pressure
In this episode, Maya Bellay interviews Stacy about the complexities of maintaining organizational culture during times of significant change.
Discipline is Underrated
In this episode of What the FTE, Certn’s CTO Saba El-Hilo discusses the importance of discipline in leadership, the evolving role of AI in the workplace, and the critical need for effective communication in tech teams.
Embodied Leadership
This week’s guest, Anitta Krishan, shares how burnout in the tech trenches led her to breathwork, Bali, and a whole new philosophy of leadership. Anitta is the Chief Culture Officer at Hoogly and former VP, Global Head of People & Strategy at TikTok.
Deel’s Remote Playbook
Glassdoor’s “Best Place to Work.” 6,000+ people across 119 countries. No office. How does a company like Deel actually pull that off and still move at hyper-growth speed?
Workforce Planning
Krista Skalde, a seasoned global talent executive, captures it well: “The future is now.” In a world of job design disruption, hybrid workforces, and machine-human teaming, here’s what HR leaders need to know, and do, to stay ahead.
The AI Opportunity
Andy sits down with Steve Cadigan, LinkedIn’s first Chief HR Officer and renowned talent advisor. While AI presents immense opportunities for efficiency, the true potential lies in how we balance it with a human-centric approach.
Redefining Recruitment
In this episode, Corey Shaw, the Founder of North Star Talent, joins Maya in a conversation about totally rethinking recruitment to make the candidate experience worth talking about, getting real buy-in and making things happen.