182 - Lessons from Chief's CPO on building communities & companies: Trey Boynton (Chief Diversity & People Officer, Chief)

Trey Boynton, Chief Diversity & People Officer at Chief, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why running a community is similar to HR work, where communities and companies tend to stumble, and the metric we wish existed for managers. ----  This episode was brought to you by Tilt. Learn more at hellotilt.com/mpl. ---- (2:35) Good news stories (10:50) Trey’s journey from academia to CPO (17:45) What Chief does (21:46) The myth around the divestment of DEI (24:50) Why running a community is a lot like HR (29:57) Intentionality is everything with community building (34:19) Things are constantly changing in the world and in HR—you have to evolve with your people (37:59) Onboarding community members versus employees (45:50) The leadership crisis (51:25) The best leaders know they don’t know (56:30) Rapid fire questions (1:02:27) One word or phrase close ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn