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Former Patagonia head of human resources Dean Carter, who recently joined Guild as its new chief people officer, speaks at the Forbes Future of Work Summit in New York Nov. 15. PHOTO CREDIT: Benjamin Esakof/Halo Creative Group, LLCHALO CREATIVE GROUP, LLC
Halo Creative Group, LLCThis is a newsletter about careers, but we don’t often cover the moves executives make from one job to another. We do, however, when they’re notable, and this one qualifies: Former Patagonia head of human resources Dean Carter is taking on the chief people officer job at Guild, the upskilling and education platform.
But Carter’s move is interesting not just because he’s a much-followed figure in the H.R. world who hails from a company known for its onsite childcare, bail reimbursement programs employees who get arrested for protesting issues and four-day workweeks every other week. (The latter started, Carter told me, to help retain employees who were mountain climbers and skiers but didn’t have enough time to regularly get away from southern California for the weekend. Sounds nice!)
It’s also because he’ll take on a much more externally facing role than many CHROs typically have. When Rachel Romer, Guild’s CEO and cofounder, recently decided to redesign the chief people officer role at her company, she wanted something different. “The job is as much being the leader of the chief people officer community that we work with as it is focusing inward,” says Romer, comparing it to chief technology officers at tech companies who run internal systems but also act as tech advisers for their customers. “We’re a human capital company, so we wanted to have a broader chief people officer remit that looked externally.”
At Guild, which has roughly 1400 employees, Carter’s early focus will be on career paths for employees and continuing to work on diversity and inclusion internally. But his job will also be to help develop Guild’s leadership team and work externally with Guild’s CHRO partners. He plans to create a consortium of leading CHROs, develop a curriculum that H.R. leaders can take through Guild’s marketplace to develop their careers and serve as an advocate for H.R. leaders in webinars and events.
“We have an opportunity to really shape the future of work,” Carter says of the ideas he hopes will drive these external conversations. “We had a moment where the future of work was how you consolidate the opportunity for everyone into just a few people, and I think we have to figure out—all of us, not just a few—how to spread opportunity across lots of people.” For more on the story, check it out here.
—with assistant editor Emmy Lucas
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Sick leave: A group of 73 Congress members is urging President Joe Biden to use an executive order to ensure guaranteed sick time for rail workers. Some progressives faced blowback for voting in favor of an agreement between unions and the rail industry that did not guarantee paid sick leave, Forbes’ Nicholas Reimann reports.
Economic outlook: As stock values collapsed last quarter and the Federal Reserve works to combat inflation, the wealth of American households has evaporated—dropping by more than $6.8 trillion this year, Forbes’ Jonathan Ponciano reports. Senior contributor William Baldwin explains what bond buyers should know about the consumer price index.
New program aims to help expand career opportunities: The U.S. National Science Foundation created a new workforce program, dubbed Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity, to award $20 million to community colleges, HBCUs and minority-serving institutions. The goal is to help faculty and administrators expand programs that lead to emerging technology jobs and startups, Forbes contributor Shalin Jyotishi writes.
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