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Podcast: The What, Why, & How of Creating an Employee Journey Map
In this episode of The Modern People Leader, Jessica Zwaan and Joris Luijke break down how journey maps help HR teams reduce chaos, align…
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Agile Ceremonies That Actually Work in People Operations
A practical guide to applying agile ceremonies in People Ops. Learn how HR teams can adapt sprints, standups, and retrospectives to improve execution…
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Podcast: The Metrics People Teams Should Actually Track
Learn how to level up your HR metrics game with insights from Jessica Zwaan. Discover the three layers of HR metrics, why AI won’t fix bad analytics…
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June 2025

How to Prioritize Employee Experience Problems with the PEOPLE Framework
Feeling stuck with a mountain of People Ops problems and no idea where to start? Learn how to prioritize, break down complex issues, and build Minimum…
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Your Compensation Strategy is Your Pricing Strategy: Part II - Building and Scaling Your Framework
Turn your compensation strategy into a system. In Part II of our series, learn how to build a scalable, defensible, and flexible compensation framework…
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Jessie Zwaan
Podcast: How to Hire for People Ops as a Product Team
Learn how to hire for a People Ops team that operates like a product org. This guide covers the five essential skills, how to find T-shaped talent, real…
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Your Compensation Strategy is Your Pricing Strategy: Part I - Building for Your Ideal Customer
👋 This is a free edition of the MPL Build Newsletter—resources for running your people team like a product team.
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May 2025

The Compensation Engine: Building Your Pay-for-Performance System
Learn how to turn your performance reviews into fair, financially sound compensation decisions. This deep dive breaks down how to design a scalable…
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Jessie Zwaan
Podcast: Four ways to build "HR squads"
Discover how forward-thinking HR leaders are ditching traditional org charts and adopting agile squad structures. Learn how to build cross-functional HR…
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Building Your Performance Management Product: A People Ops as Product Approach
Performance and compensation often clash, but what if we treated People Ops like product management? This blog breaks down a real-world framework built…
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Jessie Zwaan
From Interview Insights to Product Hypotheses: A Guide for HR Leaders
As an HR leader taking on product management responsibilities, you're sitting on a goldmine of information in qualitative user interviews, meetings, and…
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Podcast: Nobody gets People Ops as a Product 100% right (and that's ok)
Go listen to our recent episode on The Modern People Leader where we talked about “human ops” versus “people ops”, the sprint planning process for my…
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