128: You Can’t Afford a Bad Hire with Ashwini

Join the #HRevolution as we welcome Ashwini U S, People Analytics/Workforce Strategy Expert. Ashwini joins to discuss her unique journey from a career in engineering to building out a large and impactful People Analytics organization.

 In our conversation, Ashwini shares how to build trust, gain credibility, and shape relationships with business leaders by asking the right questions to understand what is most important to them.  It is through this personalized approach that Ashwini has been able to then demonstrate the true power of people data at organizations like Uber and Beat.

Once we understand what motivates leadership and managers, but also what they prioritize we can evolve our approach to best serve the business and the individuals that make up the company.

 In this episode, we discuss:

-The importance of helping leaders envision success through workforce analytics

-Establishing relationships with HR Business Partners by understanding what problems they are trying to solve

- How to “break the myths” in Human Resources through the use of data science

- The misconceptions of job hopping

- Moving from reactive to proactive modeling