Mogul Presents · A Podcast
Chief
Officer
Visionary Leaders. Real Conversations. Lasting Impact.
Hosted by Tiffany Pham, CEO & Chairman of Mogul, Chief Officer brings you candid conversations with the leaders shaping the future of work and human potential, featuring our Top 100 Honorees and the Chief Officers redefining what modern leadership looks like.
Each episode is a conversation with today’s most visionary leaders and most recognized Chief Officers in the world, and we converse about how they first reached their Chief Officer role: the journeys, the dreams, the negotiations, and the leadership lessons behind the title.
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Bloom Where You're Planted
Tim Massa Chief Officer at Kroger
Tim Massa leads the People function at Kroger, one of the largest employers in America, 400,000 associates across 3,000 stores. He walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat, including the mentor who planned her own succession four years out and the day he learned he'd be next, and describes Kroger's "AI driver's license": a certification issued to every associate and tailored to what their specific role actually requires.
Culture Is Actually Business
Mahvish Zaman Chief Officer at Liquid I.V. (Unilever)
Mahvish Zaman is Chief Officer at Liquid I.V., by way of a rare run of brands: she grew up at Nike, built a merchandising team at Walmart and Sam's Club, and helped modernize the Italian heritage house Ferragamo before moving to CPG. She walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat: the four years into Nike when she realized this was the craft she wanted, the mentors who kept her curious, and the daughter who advised her on the move west. She is also unusually direct about why the People function earns its place at the table.
Take Risks on People
Ira Bindra Chief Officer at Reliance Industries, GE India
Ira Bindra leads People & Talent at Reliance Industries, a $125 billion group spanning energy, telecom and retail. She made CHRO of GE India and South Asia in her late twenties, spent two decades at GE, moved to Medtronic, then came full circle to Mumbai in December 2024: four countries and eight cities in all. She walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat, including the president who put her on the slate for a role she was helping interview other candidates for, and the week she started at Reliance, which was also the week her father had spinal surgery.
Solve the Bigger Problem
Betty Larson Chief Officer at Merck, GE HealthCare
Betty Larson is CHRO at Merck, and has held the top people seat four times over: C.R. Bard, Becton Dickinson, GE HealthCare, and now Merck. She fell in love with HR as an undergraduate at Illinois, spent 16 years at Baxter, and took her first CHRO job by moving her young family to New Jersey. She walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat, the mentor whose quiet introduction started it, and the accomplishment she names first: the 10 or 11 former direct reports who are CHROs themselves today, every one of whom still calls.
Build What Outlasts You
Mark Miller Chief Officer at Team One (Publicis Groupe)
Mark Miller is Chief Strategy Officer of Team One, part of Publicis Groupe, and found the career before he found the degree: a Toronto high schooler who cold-called The Second City hoping to write comedy. They turned him down, said they liked him anyway, and called a small ad agency on his behalf. He walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat, including being passed over for it twice, the new business pitch nobody else was free to lead that finally made the case, the first people he called, and the advice he would give anyone one seat below: be a little more like Waze.
Think Like a Member of the Board
Andy Doyle Chief Officer at Kantar, National Grid, Worldpay, ITV
Andy Doyle leads People and Agents at Kantar: roughly 12,000 colleagues and 17,000 agents, with over ninety percent of the company using AI every day. His first chief officer seat was a small one at a dot-com that failed, and he still counts it among the most valuable jobs he has had. He walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat, including the six months he was handed as an interim at ITV and decided on day one to stop behaving like one, the predecessor he knew he could not imitate, and taking the job in a financial crisis that made him cut his own function by forty percent.
Premiering Sep 28
My Champion in the Room When I Wasn't There
Janis Hoyt Chief Officer at Primal Pet Group, The Honest Company
Janis Hoyt is CHRO at Primal Pet Group, by way of Macy's, Aetna, Clorox, Blue Shield of California and The Honest Company, which she helped take public in 2021. She studied sociology at Berkeley because it is the study of how people tick, and found HR through a rotational assignment she never left. She walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat and the thread running under all of it: the boss who offered her Latin America when she did not speak Spanish, and what separates a mentor who cheers for you from one who champions you when you are not in the room.
Premiering Sep 30
Conversations with the top CEOs and Chief Officers running the world’s most influential companies.
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Conversations with the people redefining leadership.
In the hit podcast series Chief Officer, Mogul CEO & Chairman Tiffany Pham sits down with Chief Officers and standout People Leaders to unpack the decisions, inflection points, and hard-won lessons behind their careers and how they're building cultures, developing talent, and navigating the AI shift.
Guests are top CEOs and Chief Officers from across Mogul’s community of the world’s most influential companies.
Visionary Leaders
The chief officers and people leaders shaping the future of work.
Real Conversations
Candid, unscripted stories from the C-suite, not talking points.
Lasting Impact
Practical insight you can apply to your own leadership and teams.
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