The Hidden Variable: How Talent Management Accelerates Start-Up Success
With SpinUp partner TalentRise and speakers Kristen Fox & Laura Barker.
Overview
Founders, listen up! You’ve got the vision, the product, and the drive but here’s the truth no one tells you: your ability to attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent is the single greatest differentiator for your start-up’s success. Discover how a strategic approach to talent management can fuel innovation, accelerate growth, and future-proof your business. No fluff, just real-world wisdom from two leaders who have been in the trenches.
Why Attend?
In the chaotic world of start-ups, talent is the ultimate currency … and it’s in short supply. Many founders focus on product and funding, but neglecting talent management can result in missed opportunities, costly turnover, and stalled growth. This session will show you why talent management is not a luxury but a necessity for sustainable success.
What You’ll Learn:
How to Unleash Explosive Productivity: Learn how to harness your team’s unique strengths and align them with your business goals, fostering a high-performing culture that drives results.
Boost Retention and Engagement: Get proven strategies to reduce turnover and keep your A-players motivated and loyal, saving your start-up time and money.
Build a Scalable Foundation: Uncover how to nail talent management and skyrocket growth without sacrificing culture.
Future-Proof Your Business: Understand how talent management creates agility, prepares future leaders, and ensures your start-up can adapt to change and seize new opportunities
Leverage Talent Technology: Explore how digital tools and data-driven processes can streamline recruitment, onboarding, and development, giving you a competitive edge.
Who Should Attend?
Start-up founders, CEOs, and leadership teams
Investors and advisors guiding start-up growth
Why Now?
The war for talent is fiercer than ever, and start-ups that invest in talent management are better positioned to scale, innovate, and outperform the competition. Don’t let your people strategy be an afterthought. Join us to learn how to turn talent into your start-up’s most powerful growth engine. Reserve your spot and unlock the secrets to building a resilient, agile, and high-performing start-up team!
* Please note this webinar series is open to members of the University of Toronto, University of Toronto Entrepreneurship (UTE), IDEA Mississauga and Ontario Genomics BioCreate communities only.
Background
TalentRise is partnering with SpinUp’s life sciences leaders throughout 2024-25 to provide cohort-based leadership coaching to our entrepreneurs and founders. These private, highly experiential group sessions, focus on cultural design, self-development, leadership development, and talent management. Each session leverages TalentRise coaches certified by the International Coaching Federation, Co-Active Training Institute, and Positive Intelligence.
About TalentRise
TalentRise is an executive search, coaching, and leadership development firm based in Chicago. Our purpose is to discover leaders and elevate organizations for a people-centered tomorrow. An industry player since 2008, TalentRise provides flexible, customized leadership and organizational solutions to early- to mid-market employers primarily based in the professional services, healthcare, consumer and industrial manufacturing, technology, financial services, and retail sectors. TalentRise, an Aleron Company, is connected to several sister-companies who provide global workforce solutions for over sixty years. We specifically support early-stage and high-growth businesses through our emerging enablement solutions business, Viaduct, and at TalentRise where our business is leadership.
Meet the Speakers
Kristen Fox leads TalentRise’s Coaching and Leadership Development Practice. Bringing a dynamic, personalized, and well-balanced approach to coaching, Kristen focuses on building leaders’ mental agility and improving their ability to authentically meet the moment.
Kristen has served as a Talent Consultant and Leadership Coach for TalentRise since 2019. Most notably, Kristen developed TalentRise’s Fast Start Coaching program, a three-month executive integration coaching program that dozens of TalentRise executive placements have participated in and benefited from. Fast Start Coaching provides incredible value to newly onboarded executives and leaders as they navigate a new culture, engage their teams, and build relationships during their first 90 days on the job.
As a coach and mentor partner of CEOs and leadership teams of venture-backed and founder-led companies, Kristen leverages almost two decades of experience as an HR leader in the financial services, private equity, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and legal services industries. Kristen’s work focuses on leadership and team transformations that leverage the power of Positive Intelligence, Predictive Index, and Hogan Assessment Systems.
Kristen received her Bachelor of Arts from Bradley University and her Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship and Finance from DePaul University. She is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and holds several other professional coaching and HR certifications.
She recently served as the President of the ICF Charlotte Area Chapter. A Chicago native, Kristen currently resides in Matthews, North Carolina with her son and whoodle.
Laura Barker has 20+ years of business experience in HR and project management, including compensation and benefit program design and review as well as talent management and performance improvement programs. She has extensive international corporate experience in cultural transformation especially related to mergers and acquisitions.
She has worked with small, mid-market, and large national and international companies in the pharmaceutical, hospitality, employee engagement, supply chain, and food manufacturing industries.
Laura focuses on leadership coaching, specifically, steering with purpose, developing key leadership skills, and gaining clarity to maximize personal insight and professional growth.
Laura holds a B.A. from McGill University and is coach-certified with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). Laura is also a PCC and CPCC Certified Coach. She is Past Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, Member of the Board of Governors for an independent school in Toronto, and is Co-Founder of 100 Women Who Care’s Toronto West Chapter.
