You’re only a first-time CPO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you’re in a tough spot to manage all the details of HR/People, set up the accounts and systems, plus build out your team. Startup CPO was written to help the first-time CPO navigate HR/People challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function.
Matt Blumberg and Cathy Hawley have decades of finance and leadership experience from founding a company, scaling it, and exiting. They cover a wide range of topics from values and culture, to onboarding, compensation, career pathing, employee engagement, recruiting, People operations, and more. The authors share how to collaborate effectively in the executive suite and with functional leaders throughout an organization. As an added bonus, Matt shares CEO-to-CEO advice on what a great CPO looks like, signs your CPO isn’t scaling, and how to engage with the CPO.
Startup CPO will help you pinpoint gaps or weaknesses, turn those into strengths, and help you scale yourself, the People function, and your organization.
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Foreword by Scott Dorsey
Introduction by Matt Blumberg
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
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Cathy Hawley is CEO of Bolster and has been an experienced fractional and full-time Chief People Officer passionate about building highly effective leadership teams and creating inclusive and people-focused workplaces. She has more than 20 years of experience in a variety of industries developing global People and Culture teams. At Return Path, she spearheaded the ‘return to work’ program, spun it out to a nonprofit, and is on the Board of Path Forward, a nonprofit that helps companies create return-to-work programs for caregivers. Cathy contributed to ‘Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams’ (Wiley, 2021), sharing her experience, tips, and best practices for CPOs to build a resilient culture as they scale up the People function. Cathy earned a BS in business administration from the University of Colorado and a master’s in European HR and Industrial Relations from Keele University.