Navigating the Treacherous Terrain of Talent Hiring Mistakes with Deborah Snow Walsh
Are you aware of the ripple effects that hiring the wrong talent can have on your organization?
In this episode of Remarkable Leadership Lessons, our host, Denise Cooper, discusses the critical issue of the consequences of hiring the wrong talent with Deborah Snow Walsh, an authority on talent acquisition and management with an emphasis on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
Deborah Snow Walsh, who currently serves as the Head of Talent for Brown and Brown Insurance Company, shares insights drawn from her vast experience in talent acquisition, development, management, and more.
As Denise Cooper introduces in the podcast, hiring the wrong person can lead to an array of problems such as a decrease in productivity, damaged relationships with customers, and potentially losing millions in revenue. For instance, Deborah highlights a scenario where the company hired a Vice President of Sales who turned out to be wrong for the role, causing significant harm to the business, to the extent of almost losing a $60 million account.
In this epsiode, Denise and Deborah explore practical strategies for ensuring that organizations make the right hiring decisions. Deborah also elaborates on how putting the right person in the right position can have a tremendous positive impact on the organization’s culture, productivity, and bottom line. If you've been wanting to understand and mitigate the impact of hiring the wrong talent on your business, this is the episode for you.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- Why is it important to be strategic in the hiring practice? What happens when we get it wrong? [3:00]
- What should you do when you have a senior level vacancy in a company that needs to hire more individual contributors?[08:52]
- How to you support a leader in bringing in talent that may even surpass their capabilities? [15:25]
- Now that may of us are in a hybrid work environment, does it change the rules for bringing in great talent?[25:20]
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GUEST DEBORAH SNOW WALSH
Debbie is a builder of organizations and a talent executive, focused on DEI in thought and view. Those are her passions. She has a unique background in sales, having successfully started her career selling large benefits packages to the Fortune 200, working for AXA Equitable. She knew nothing about benefits, or the Fortune 200. She was recruited to Lee Hecht Harrison, where she excelled in selling outplacement and coaching services to large, multi national organizations. When she was recruited again into the search business, she was already focused on female and minority talent and made the decision to become an entrepreneur and open her own firm. Ultimately, her organization included ten professionals and served companies including IBM, JPMorgan Chase, the GAP, Pfizer, AXA Equitable, and Prudential among others. In 2011 she was recruited to Zurich Insurance to run Talent Acquisition, University Relations and Diversity. She enjoyed the opportunity to see talent in action and build an organization. She returned to outside search and ultimately her own firm. Her clients include those from her previous firm as well as CDW, Icahn Enterprises, Citizens Bank, Pet Supplies Plus, Bloomberg and AIG.
She focuses on everything Talent: acquisition, development, management, assimilation, experience and retention. Debbie’s expertise is in consulting with corporations on their internal policies and practices to make them efficient, executive search and executive coaching. She has been involved with HRPS, was co-chair of its annual conference and various planning committees. She is part of the original CHREATE team, understanding and addressing the HR leadership of 2025. She is frequent and popular speaker before business groups.
