{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leading Beyond the Org Chart","title":"Mike Kohn on Building a People First Culture at Kevel","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2815,"description":"A tech company's first engagement survey looked strong until Mike Kohn broke it down by gender and found a wide gap between how men and women rated their experience at Kevel. Mike Kohn is Chief People Officer at Kevel, where he has spent more than three years scaling a global team across 17 to 18 countries. He talks with Kim Steppe and Marilyn Nagel about the infrastructure he built to close that gap, why he trades survey fatigue for a mix of quantitative and qualitative check-ins, and how he supported an employee coming out as transgender.\n\nChapters:\n00:00 Welcome to Leading Beyond the Org Chart\n01:03 Mike's path to a people first career\n02:42 The engagement survey and a gender gap in the data\n07:58 Cross-group differences and function-level analysis\n11:15 Survey cadence, pulse fatigue and quarterly reviews\n12:39 Why belonging outweighs compensation\n17:07 Supporting an employee coming out as transgender\n24:13 The identity button idea and leadership storytelling\n28:20 Operating across 17 countries and local traditions\n33:16 Balancing rapid growth with a people first focus\n37:56 Change management feedback from the survey\n40:14 DEI committee, resource groups and a calendar of celebrations\n43:00 Advice to his younger self\n45:18 What gives Mike hope\n\nYou can follow Mike Kohn here:\nLinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/mikejkohn\n\nLearn more about Kevel:\nWebsite - https://kevel.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/X4RcpXp3F7Oqb9XERufH77VOjFxtzRcMwk_n_hK5_4w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iZTA3/ZTgxYjlhZDFjZGUw/ZWQ3MjRlZWViMWNh/ODNkYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}