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In this episode of The Remote CEO Show, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Kliman. Kevin is the CEO and co-founder of Humi, the leading best-in-one employment solution for Canadian businesses. He's passionate about enriching Canada's tech talent pool, reinvesting back into the community, and helping Canadian companies take better care of their people. He continues Humi's journey of building the infrastructure of Canada's economy, alongside 140+ Humigos who live across the country.
Some entrepreneurs build something from scratch. But another pay is to buy a business, something called “entrepreneurship through acquisition”. Venture for Canada's Scott Stirrett takes us through how it works. Then, a boss who supports your side gig. Kevin Kliman and Wilma Reyes from Humi tell us about the benefits of letting your employees pursue their passions. And the difference between a consumer proposal and bankruptcy. Shelley Koehli, licensed insolvency trustee at Harris & Partners compares the two. Plus, we'll speak with Michelle Hilscher from BEworks about their behavioural science course for financial advisors. To find out more about the guests check out: Scott Stirrett: com | Twitter/X | LinkedIn Shelley Koehli: LinkedIn Harris & Partners: LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube Humi: Twitter/X | Facebook Michelle Hilscher: LinkedIn Bruce Sellery is a personal finance expert and best-selling author. As the founder of Moolala and the CEO of Credit Canada, Bruce is on a mission to help you get a better handle on your money so you can live the life you want. High energy & low B.S., this is Moolala: Money Made Simple. Find Bruce Sellery at Moolala.ca | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
With so many people pursuing side hustles these days it works really well for the employees but how does it work for the employer. We have Wilma Reyes and Kevin Kliman, both from Humi, to give us the employee/employer view. Connect with Humi on Twitter/X and Facebook.
Explore Kevin Kliman's journey from dentist to tech mogul in this 'Launch AMA' episode. Learn about Humi's impact on Canadian businesses, startup challenges, and venture capital insights. Key themes include entrepreneurship, business leadership, and strategic growth. Ideal for aspiring entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts. Learn more about Humi: https://www.humi.ca/ Learn more about us at Launch: launchacademy.ca
In this episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, talks with Kevin Kliman, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Humi. Humi is an online platform for managing basically everything that has to do with people in your business. Kevin Kliman talks about HR advice, strategies, and pitfalls to avoid for human resources in its relationship to financial planning. Episode Highlights: ● 01:32 – Kevin Kliman explains what Humi is and the work he does with them. ● 03:24 – What does hiring people and turnover cost people aside from their salaries? ● 11:09 – What are some best practices around onboarding that really work effectively and have an impact? ● 13:21 – Kevin talks about the consequences of not having paperwork taken care of properly. ● 15:14 – What should employees be doing to address onboarding concerns? ● 17:22 – Kevin discusses firing people, dismissal and the risks surrounding that. ● 21:29 – When it comes to payroll, remove all the friction. ● 25:34 – What are some best practices for onboarding and maintenance of the plans ingeneral? ● 38:41 – Trust is earned. ● 39:17 – Kevin Kliman shares his final thoughts 3 Key Points 1. When hiring, make sure you are filtering for company culture fit, use recruiting to signal to them what your expectations are, and be authentic. 2. Build an emotional bond between new employees and the rest of the team. 3. The Employment Standards Act (ESA) is the bare minimum for companies as to how they have to treat employees. Tweetable Quotes: ● “Humi is a cloud-based employee system of record for Canadian businesses with 5 to 500 people. It's kind of a fancy way of saying that we combine payroll, HR, health benefits into a single simple system, cloud-based system that can be accessed from any device.” – Kevin Kliman ● (Humi) “We are really replacing paper contracts, Excel spreadsheets, all the multiple siloed systems that people use to manage the people side of their business.” – Kevin Kliman ● (Humi) “The company is four and a half years old. There are now over 1000 companies that are on Humi and they employ over 30,000 people.” – Kevin Kliman Resources Mentioned: ● Facebook – Jason Pereira's Facebook ● LinkedIn – Jason Pereira's LinkedIn ● FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact ● jasonpereira.ca – Website ● Linkedin – Kevin Kliman's Linkedin ● Twitter – Kevin Kliman's Twitter ● Humi.ca – Website for Humi ● Kevin@Humi.ca – Email Kevin Kliman Full Transcript See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Kliman, CoFounder and CoCEO of Humi. Humi is the number one Payroll-HR-Benefits platform for Canadian SMBs. On this podcast, we discussed about the future of human resources, artificial intelligence and the importance of keeping employees' happiness at work. To reach out to Kevin: Twitter: https://twitter.com/kkliman Website: https://www.humi.ca/ ---- Thank you to our sponsors Yves Somé & Ali Kadamina Fofana founders of 2CM & ASSOCIES INC. https://www.2cm-associes.com/ 514-318-3711 To Get Your Free Consultation Say: Podcast Hugo Prince Montreal, Canada only. ---- Follow me / Subscribe for more: Podcast: The Hugo Prince Audio Show on Apple Podcast, Spotify & Google Podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/princehugo/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hugoprince/ Youtube Channel: Hugo Prince Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/princehugo/ -----
Summary:In this second episode, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Kevin Kliman, CEO and Founder of Humi – an HR software company. Kevin shares the highlights of his journey, what his company Humi is seeking to accomplish, and Humi’s impact on the financial space.Show Notes00:41 – Humi is a fintech company because in addition to its subscriber model, they introduced payroll and becoming the group insurance broker for the companies that they deal with.● 01:24 – Humi acknowledges that Zenefits – a SAS company - created their business model: give away software and make money off of insurance sales.● 01:41 – Zenefits rose to a valuation of over $1 billion.● 01:46 – Kevin Kliman and Humi graduated from Y Combinator – one of the biggest incubators in the United States.● 02:42 – Kevin explains Humi as a cloud-based benefits, payroll and HR software, trying to solve the problem of time being wasted reconciling multiple isolated systems instead of running their business.● 04:54 – Humi is Kevin’s first tech start-up and he is not from the world of insurance and benefits. He is a licensed dentist and has experience building businesses and soft-ware based companies on the side.● 06:42 – Kevin Kliman became excited by the business model of Humi and met his partners: Matt Loszak the technical lead, Simon Bourgeois the COO, and Drew Millington the head of sales.● 09:16 – The payroll application stemmed from merging with a company that was already building it and it was attractive in its simplicity and being web-based.● 11:54 – Pricing model for companies coming on their is a SAS license fee with a nominal cost per employee per month. Companies that choose to make Humi their insurance broker will not be charged for the software.● 13:05 – The partner route is attractive to Humi, which has 30+ people, but it comes down to bandwidth.● 15:12 – Humi sees a lot of promise in being an end-to-end solution for both employers and employees.● 18:00 – The goal is becoming a leader in the HR, payroll, and benefits space, and revamping performance management for companies.● 20:05 – Humi’s team went from zero to 30 in 2-3 years.● 22:41 – Humi’s target customer has changed significantly from companies that are 10-30 people from companies that are 50-200. Bamboo HR has been a competitor.● 27:30 – Interaction with the broker space is still early and how to support them properly. Humi has been able to give quotes in 80% less time.● 30:51 – Put your client first and satisfy their needs. Embrace the future.● 32:40 – Integrations with Zero and Quickbooks, Group RSP providers are goals of the company.● 36:59 – For employees that use Humi every month – 50% log in every day. 3 Key Points:1. Humi graduated from Y Combinator – one of the biggest incubators in the United States.2. Companies using Humi pay a base fee to use the software and a nominal cost per employee per month. Companies that choose to make Humi their insurance broker will not be charged for the software.3. For employees that use Humi every month, an astounding 50% log in every day. Tweetable Quotes:- “Humi is cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR software.” – Kevin Kliman.- “Payroll is its own beast. It has to have connections to all of the banks…which is tough to do.” – Kevin Kliman.- “If you think about the best way to service your client, you are going to win in the long run. .” – Kevin Kliman. - “In general we (Canada) are about four years behind the states when it comes to technology…mostly because we are 1/10th of the size.” – Kevin Kliman. Resources Mentioned:● Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook● LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn● Humi – Website for Humi● Woodgate Financial – Sponsor of Fintech Impact podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Rob Kenedi has yet another coffee with Kevin Kliman, founder of his latest venture, Humi, a free, all-in-one HR cloud-based platform. In a first for #smallrooms, a former guest returns as the founder of his latest venture. Kevin describes what he learned from his last startup, Instaradio / Raur, and how he approached creating his next startup, taking his lessons from the accelerators he had been part of, including 500 Startups and Amplify, his position on obtaining funding the second time around, and his thoughts on how to break into a heavily regulated, relationship-based market.
Kevin Kliman co-founder at RAUR talks about building a social platform for podcasts.
Our first episode in an echoey room with Kevin Kliman, founder of Raur / Instaradio.