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In this episode of HR Heretics, Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich interview Sally Thornton, founder of Forshay. Sally shares insights on the fractional executive placement business she's built since 2011. Thornton emphasizes that successful fractional work requires consultative skills, boundary management, and rapid trust-building rather than simply scoped part-time arrangements. If you're thinking of going fractional, this is a must-listen discussion.*Email us your questions or topics for Kelli & Nolan: hrheretics@turpentine.coFor coaching and advising inquire at https://kellidragovich.com/HR Heretics is a podcast from Turpentine.Support HR Heretics Sponsors:Planful empowers teams just like yours to unlock the secrets of successful workforce planning. Use data-driven insights to develop accurate forecasts, close hiring gaps, and adjust talent acquisition plans collaboratively based on costs today and into the future. ✍️ Go to https://planful.com/heretics to see how you can transform your HR strategy.Metaview is the AI assistant for interviewing. Metaview completely removes the need for recruiters and hiring managers to take notes during interviews—because their AI is designed to take world-class interview notes for you. Team builders at companies like Brex, Hellofresh, and Quora say Metaview has changed the game—see the magic for yourself: https://www.metaview.ai/hereticsKEEP UP WITH SALLY, NOLAN + KELLI ON LINKEDINSally: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallythornton/Nolan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolan-church/Kelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellidragovich/—LINK/S:Forshay: https://forshay.com/—TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Intro(01:58) What Forge Does(02:33) Trust Barriers in Fractional Work(03:25) The Relational Approach(04:36) Buyer Mindset Challenges(06:10) Marketplaces vs. Agents(10:00) The Adverse Selection Problem(10:56) The Dirty Secret of Fractional(11:45) Different Interview Approach(13:03) Consulting Background Advantage(13:53) Sponsors: Planful | Metaview(16:57) The Ideal Buyer(17:26) Early vs. Late Stage Company Challenges(18:24) CFOs Make Better Clients(18:59) Transparent Pricing Model(21:41) Hourly Rate Guidelines(22:41) W2 vs. 1099 Considerations(23:27) The Honeymoon Phase(24:52) Managing Client Expectations(26:46) Beyond Filling Open Roles(29:08) The Assessment Process(34:29) Evolution from Interim to Fractional(37:05) Advice for New Fractional Execs(38:15) The Black Hole Complaint(40:11) Career Self-Management(42:11) Sustaining a 15-Year Business(43:06) Wrap This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hrheretics.substack.com

Hello and welcome back to The Robin Zander Show! For today's episode, I sat down with Sally Thornton, the founder and CEO of Forshay. Forshay is a company that specializes in executive recruiting and improving workplace dynamics through diversity and inclusion. She has a background in creating innovative solutions for work-life balance and has been a speaker at various conferences, including TEDx talks.  In this episode, Sally and I talk about the science of work, how to be a good leader, doing work you love, and much more. Sally is also an official speaker at Responsive Conference 2024! If you haven't yet, get your tickets here: https://www.responsiveconference.com/tickets It was a pleasure having Sally on the podcast!

In this episode, Luvvie is joined by Sally Thornton, HR Consultant and the Founder of Forshay, to give her insider perspective as 'team gardener' on the dysfunction, blind spots, and the necessary overhaul of Awe Luv Media. Luvvie and Sally explore the complexities of leadership, the importance of truth-telling in business, and managing team dynamics through turbulent transitions. They share insights on the significance of financial management, the challenges of scaling, maintaining productivity amidst internal conflicts, and the journey of rebuilding a more intentional and focused company. Sally emphasizes the importance of aligning work with energy and passion, and shares practical tips on team building for solopreneurs and small business owners.

About Our Guest: Sally Thornton is the founder and CEO of Forshay, a talent strategy and executive search firm. She is also the founder of ForShe, an organization that focuses on helping women and parents find work-life blend. Sally is passionate about creating workplaces that support individuals in achieving their personal and professional goals. Summary: Sally Thornton discusses the concept of work-life blend and how it differs from work-life balance. She shares her personal experience of realizing the importance of finding a balance between work, family, and personal life after the death of her brother. Sally emphasizes the need for data and storytelling to change cultural narratives around work and to encourage individuals to prioritize their well-being. She provides tips and tricks for achieving work-life blend, including prioritizing sleep, investing in friendships, and making time for exercise. Sally also discusses the importance of communication and setting boundaries with employers and offers strategies for creating a work culture that supports work-life blend. Key Takeaways: Work-life blend is about finding a balance between work, family, and personal life that allows individuals to pursue their passions and goals. Data and storytelling are powerful tools for changing cultural narratives around work and encouraging individuals to prioritize their well-being. Prioritizing sleep, investing in friendships, and making time for exercise are essential for achieving work-life blend. Communication and setting boundaries with employers are crucial for creating a work culture that supports work-liblend. Quotes: "Work-life blend is a dance that can be either fun or exhausting, and you're the dancer." "Finding the right work-life blend requires individual reflection and open communication with employers." "Creating a work culture that supports work-life blend is a competitive advantage for companies." Further Learnings and Readings:  Why We Sleep  Stanford Clayman Institute Sally's TedX Talk Forshay.com Leslie Perlow Transcriptions --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lexib/message

Steve and Shane are joined this episode by Sally Thornton, founder and CEO of Forshay (HR recruiting and consulting platform). Sally shares her thoughts on what the future of HR professionals in going to look like. Many things have changed since 2020 including how we hire, operate our teams, and how we lead. Steve, Shane, and Sally also share their thoughts on what to expect in 2023 and beyond. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/workweekafterhours/message

Data shows that the demands of professional work put an unrealistic burden on women. We spend this episode with Sally Thornton, digging into common causes of burnout for women in the workforce and the burdens they carry. Sally urges us to be our own Behavioral Scientists and to track what sparks joy in our lives, then prioritizing this work. Don't forget to follow Women In Product Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter to connect with a community of 30,000+ women PMs.

Data shows that the demands of professional work put an unrealistic burden on women. We spend this episode with Sally Thornton, digging into common causes of burnout for women in the workforce and the burdens they carry. Sally urges us to be our own Behavioral Scientists and to track what sparks joy in our lives, then prioritizing this work. Don't forget to follow Women In Product Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter to connect with a community of 30,000+ women PMs.

Another Women In Product Conference in the books! We were joined by over 3,000 women in product, all connecting for two days. Want to get a glimpse of some of the highlights? Listen for words from this year's keynotes: Tulsee Doshi, Deboshree Dutta, Jennifer Lopez, Deb Liu, Mamuna Oladipo, and Sally Thornton. Don't forget to follow Women In Product Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter to connect with a community of 30,000+ women PMs.

Curious about what's in store for the Women In Product Conference 2022? Learn from seven influential product leaders who hold key leadership positions in product management. Tulsee Doshi, Deboshree Dutta, Deb Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Mamuna Oladipo, and Sally Thornton will be taking the stage to share their knowledge in the field and share their advice on May 10-11. Register for 22WIP here: bit.ly/22wiptickets Don't forget to follow Women In Product Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter to connect with a community of 30,000+ women PMs.

Work life balance is something we all strive for, and Forshay CEO and Founder as well as TedX Talk sensation Sally Thornton knows a thing or two about those turning points in life that bring you to rethink your priorities. Having lost her brother in an unexpected accident while she was 8 months pregnant, the words said by her mother on that dreaded phone call “I've just lost my only son and you're about to have your first born son” caused a sudden and necessary shift in committing to choose life over work. With both grit and grace, Thornton shares how you can successfully reimagine your future in both your work and in your life.

Andrea Robb is a talent advisor, designer, and leadership coach. In her conversation with Jesse, she draws on her experiences as a talent executive and consultant to lay out a vision for the future of the workplace experience and of talent management. Andrea shares her views on post-COVID working realities and how forward-thinking teams might improve the employee experience and promote greater empathy and inclusivity. She shares deep insights from her time at Airbnb, including how they turned the company's external purpose around Belonging into a distinctive employee culture. Andrea discusses the relationship between company purpose, belonging, diversity, and inclusion, talks about lessons learned early in her career at Lucasfilm, and reflects on the importance of discovering and acting on clues that one finds during their career and life. How will COVID shape the workplace moving forward? How do you help creative talent develop their skills? How do companies create an inclusive culture where employees feel belonging? How can belonging be incorporated into diversity and inclusion programs? How can you start discovering your purpose?Guest Bio:Andrea is a former HR leader at Lucasfilm, Airbnb, and Autodesk--with a focus on Organization Development and Learning. She is now an entrepreneur and advisor to organizations on the future of work and education, as founder of Andrea Robb Consulting. Current and former clients include Dive Studios, Lucasfilm, Airbnb, Stanford University, CompassPoint, and Weebly.com. She is also a founding partner at HumanCentric Labs, which seeks to redefine and design how organizations work, using agile, self-management, and human centered design research. She works with organizations in the public and private sectors that seek modern ideas for work - including organization design, talent strategy, recruiting, learning + development, people analytics, and diversity + belonging. Andrea also holds a board position on The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.She holds a Bachelor's in Psychology from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Education and Public Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.Building Blocks:Think about your life right now and also to take a trip back in time.What clues there are in your personal, educational, and professional background that might hint at what you could go build or how you could build. Are you somebody who really enjoyed being a camp counselor as a teenager? A swim coach and you've loved nature your whole life? Maybe that implies something about a career move related to improving our planet, climate, or great outdoors. Maybe you're a person who finds Zen in reading or writing, but so far you've only taken on blogs and papers. What would it look like for you to consider writing your first book? Take an honest and complete look back, and maybe do it over the course of two or three settings and see what clues you come up with and write about some of the possibilities those clues might portend for you.Helpful Links:Andrea's website: https://andrearobb.com/Qualtrics' latest research on the importance of belonging in the workplaceAirbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on Airbnb's identity of “Belong Anywhere”Dr. Lauren Aguilar, leader of the Inclusion, Diversity, and Belonging Practice at Forshay Consulting, who helped develop the Airbnb Belonging Index and Sally Thornton as Founder/CEOBelonging Researcher, Dr. Greg Walton at Stanford UniversityResearch on Belonging and Diversity for women, with highly practical applications, at VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab. In particular, Shelley J. Correll, the Faculty Director and Principal Investigator has developed a "Small Wins Strategy" to quickly improve diversity and belonging.Harvard Business Review article on the benefits of building on employee engagement to achieve greater outcomes

Sally Thornton is the founder and CEO of Forshay, a firm that focuses on how people can do their best work through executive recruiting and improving the system of work. Sally joins us on this episode to discuss what kind of "criteria" you should actually be looking for when hiring, cognitive bias, the "Ideal Worker" norm, and the importance of "being basic."

Sally explains the misguided nature of the "ideal worker", some key takeaways from her research on the future of work, as well as what a comprehensive and effective DE&I strategy looks like. Re-Imagining The Future of Work: TEDX Talk Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work

Today, Mike Wood is joined by Lauren Brown and together, they’ll be interviewing Sally Thornton, the founder of Forshay, who is an entrepreneur trying to make work better. Not every entrepreneur has the self-awareness to understand that they’re part of the problem - but when Sally started her company, she knew she was guilty of overworking and prioritizing work above all else. She designed her company to be different and today she shares the critical areas in which they do that. Work-Life Balance is the Wrong TermThe traditional model in the western world is to grow up, get educated, get a job, work really hard, then retire. But a much better model is to learn for your whole life and work for your whole life, and critically - take care of yourself and have leisure time for your whole life, too. When we call that work-life balance, we get the wrong idea - work and life shouldn't be competing forces at all. Advice for a Recovering WorkaholicSo many people are working too much - but more and more people want to learn how to step back a little. Getting enough sleep is something we could all do a little better. Sally talks about how most of us are tired because we’re not getting the sleep we need. No one would drive drunk - but driving tired is almost as dangerous! She has an interesting tip you can use to get in the habit of getting to bed on time! We also need to exercise more - but it doesn’t have to be a dedicated workout session - getting in little bits of activity throughout the day can do wonders for your mood and energy levels. If you’ve got 7 minutes - you’ve got the time to get a little movement in. Mike shares a story about how challenging it can be to have time for yourself and your own self-care when you live with an exceptionally energetic 3-year old in the house. Sally talks about how to combine your different activities to accomplish more of your goals at one time, like community service with friendly hangouts, or exercise and hanging out with your kids. We’re Communicating MoreSally talks about how important it is to communicate and express our desires about what we want in our lives. She thinks millennials are particularly good at doing so - but it’s something that’s valuable for everyone. No one really wants to be nothing but the perfect worker - so why do we talk about work as if it were true? There are some generational differences in terms of practicing good self-care, and the perceived need to be constantly productive. Dealing with ageism in the workplace is an issue as well. We have norms and beliefs in our culture that will tell you all sorts of things about age and gender that bear no real resemblance to reality. By taking the human approach - that people want interesting work and to feel valued - has informed the growth of Forshay. Sally mentions that keeping a learning mindset helps you stay current as you get older. Take the time to explore your interests, the more you learn, the more it will spill into the other areas of your life.If you take anything away from this episode - keep learning, and keep finding ways to do more of the things you want to do each day, as well as the things you need to do. Resources: Forshay | Multipliers by Liz Wiseman | Sally on LinkedIn | And on Twitter

Business Radio Insights: What are the most important things we can look for in a job to ensure job satisfaction and a good work/life balance? Sally Thornton explains her top two suggestions to Work and Life host and Wharton Prof Stew Friedman in this clip. Sally Thornton is founder and CEO of Forshay, a company that focuses on how people can do their best work through executive recruiting, project-based work, and improving the system of work through increased diversity, inclusion, and belonging.For the full interview with Sally Thornton, check out the Work and Life Podcast episode, here! http://www.workandlifepodcast.com/blog/st See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sally Thornton is founder and CEO of Forshay, a company that focuses on how people can do their best work through executivhttp://forshay.com/e recruiting, project-based work, and improving the system of work through increased diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Sally launched WorkLab in 2015, a design thinking community of action committed to making work better, based on her work with Stanford's "Redesigning and Redefining Work" project. She lectures regularly at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business as well as UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also serves on the Advisory Council of Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Sally and Stew discuss the future of work, which will be more fluid, less focused on a job and more on both the work itself and on results. They discuss the importance of social support at work for enabling people to thrive in all parts of their lives. Sally offers valuable tips on how to harness technology so that it is not a distracting and intrusive force in our lives but, rather, so that it helps to limit and focus our time on the people and projects that matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thought leader Sally Thornton discusses how to create ownership of your career while finding work/life balance. She discusses how to create your ideal career through a system and framework that motivates you. She also discusses how to create a human-centered work culture that benefits individuals and the companies they work for.