Ep63 Shopify Chief Talent Officer, Brittany Forsyth

Written By Lars Schmidt

In this episode, I sit down with Shopify Chief Talent Officer Brittany Forsyth to discuss her experience scaling Shopify from employee #22 to 5,000+. In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • Traits that allowed Brittany to grow from an office manager right out of University to running the people function for a 5,000+ public company

  • How her personal experience with growth mindset is infused into how Shopify hires

  • An inside look at how their new “digital by default” model came together

  • The HR and people team implications of shifting from colocation to distributed

  • How it will impact the design of her people team

  • Advice for people and business leaders who are shifting to remote

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