This episode features an interview with Kevin Stapp, SVP and  Global Head of Talent Management at Conde Nast, and your host, Sultan Saidov, Co-Founder and President at Beamery. Kevin is a Human Resources executive with global experience in leading people strategies and delivering results in diverse environments. A passionate and energetic team player with the proven ability to deliver bespoke people solutions to suit specific business needs.

Kevin discusses how Conde Nast uses their inclusion index, how “lateral agility” is improving leadership, and how they have helped navigate their employees through significant change within a now globally integrated organization. 

About Conde Nast:

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. The company's award-winning content reaches 88 million consumers in print, 419 million in digital and 432 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month. 

The company is headquartered in New York and London, and operates in 32 markets worldwide including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico and Latin America, Russia, Spain and Taiwan. Launched in 2011, Condé Nast Entertainment is an award-winning production and distribution studio that creates programming across film, television, social and digital video and virtual reality. 

Key Takeaways:

• Measuring DE&I with the “inclusion index” 
• What Conde Nast is doing to promote inclusive leadership
• Organizational transformation vs talent management
• The importance of lateral agility 

Quote:

“One of the big focus areas is what we’re calling “lateral agility”. 

Because what we found is we've certainly moved the needle in terms of the improvement of leadership and management in terms of what would be called vertical leadership in terms of the leadership of their teams and really focusing on elements such as the quality of feedback and career development and how they're supporting their teams.

And we've seen major improvement in that regard. But the area where we see the opportunity is that the most successful leaders are spending just as much time collaborating in a highly effective manner with their cross-functional peers.” - Kevin Stap

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