#146: Megan Mayhugh (People Architects)

Meg Mayhugh, Founder and Managing Partner at People Architects as well as the Head of Talent & people at Ninety.io the leading cloud-based business operating system and only officially licensed software for EOS (the Entrepreneurial Operating System), which recently closed its $35 million Series B funding, valuing the company at over $200 million!

Meg has decades of experience in talent and people management, leadership strategy, and HR writ-large with an amazing set of roles that led her professionally from:

•  bond and corporate debt trading, 
• to a McKinsey consultant, 
• to Chief People Officer, Chief Growth Officer, and Chief of Staff across firms like Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, 
• to National City Bank and later PNC, 
• to Dealer Tire here in Cleveland, 
• to TalentLaunch with Aaron Grossman (who shared his story here on the Lay of The Land back on Episode #41), 
• to Ninety and Impact Architects with Kris Snyder (who shared his story back on Episode #98),

...to her own company today! Meg deeply believes that people are a business’s greatest asset and launched People Architects back in 2020 to help entrepreneurs manage this greatest asset. As a fractional Human Resources, Talent, and Recruiting firm, People Architects helps growing, small to medium-sized companies across process planning, people-optimization & employee engagement, and profit protection as Meg and her team coach other entrepreneurs to plan for growth and advise them on how to best manage risks to their organizations and win the war on talent.

Meg is incredibly passionate about all things people, and that passion comes through in spades in our conversation where we cover the gift of being fired, lessons learned from Ray Dalio and Bridgewater's unique culture, work-life integration, the eb-and-flow of trust between executives and employees, the role of transparency, fostering meaning and connection in the workplace, building a company as a mom of three, transferable lessons from sports to business, the power of mentors, a whole variety of other macro-level HR and People-oriented topics, the differences between leading very large and small company cultures, and lots more.

I’ve personally learned so much from Meg and really enjoyed this opportunity to package just a small piece of her earned wisdom into our conversation today — 

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Connect with Meg Mayhugh — https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-mayhugh/
Learn more about People Architects — https://www.peoplearchitects.io/
Learn more about Ninety — https://www.ninety.io/

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