Season 2 · Episode 1 · 18 min

Be in the Room

Michelle Goodwin Chief People Officer, Teikametrics

Michelle Goodwin is Chief People Officer of Teikametrics, and she has held the chief people seat four times without a single one coming from an application. She started in banking, took an admin job in tech during a boom, and spent twenty-five years as the first or second HR person at Accusoft, Gomez, Care.com and Black Duck, building the function from nothing. She walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat, what it costs to leave a company you built after an acquisition, and why the way in is to be present: on the executive team, at the board meetings, in the room.