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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Sue Gardner <sgard...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > ***Resending this note because the earlier version seemed to have > really broken formatting. Hope this is better.*** > > Hello folks, > > I’m delighted to tell you that the Wikimedia Foundation has a new > Chief Talent and Culture Officer, Gayle Karen Young. > > Recapping: the purpose of the CTCO role is to have a person on staff > dedicated to continually strengthening and improving all our practices > related to people --such as recruitment, on-boarding, skills > development, organizational design, goal-setting, compensation and > performance assessment-- with the overall goal of ensuring that the > Wikimedia Foundation’s work culture is healthy and high-performance. > > I created the role because I believe that for organizations to be > effective, it's critical that they have good talent and culture > practices. Most non-profits skimp on funding HR because they want to > be cautious with donors’ money, and they think investing in people is > a bit of a luxury. I disagree. At the Wikimedia Foundation, half our > spending is on salaries -- in other words, on people. So it seems to > me that recruiting great people and creating the conditions in which > they can flourish, is an excellent investment. That’s why the > Wikimedia Foundation has a CTCO. > > Back to Gayle. A few months ago, Cyn Skyberg told Wikimedia she’d be > leaving us. I then hired Lisa Grossman of m|Oppenheim to find us a > successor for Cyn. Lisa spoke with hundreds of candidates, and brought > six to be interviewed by me, Erik and Garfield Byrd. Our finalist > candidates then spoke with Cyn, Barry, Geoff and Zack, and worked on > projects for us which involved interviewing Aaron Schulz, Alolita > Sharma, Asher Feldman, Brandon Harris, CT Woo, Dana Isokawa, Howie > Fung, Jay Walsh, Kul Wadhwa, Leslie Harms, Melanie Brown, Rob > Lanphier, Steven Walling and Tomasz Finc. They were also interviewed > by Jan-Bart de Vreede, the vice-chair of the Board and the chair of > the Board’s HR committee. > > It was an extensive search! And I am really happy about the outcome. > > Gayle Karen Young is a seasoned HR consultant and organizational > psychologist with expertise in leadership development, change > management, facilitation, group dynamics, and Agile team effectiveness > training. She has worked with a wide variety of non-profit and > for-profit organizations across industries including tech, > hospitality, restaurants, airlines, healthcare, and education. She is > the board president of Spark, a non-profit organization that engages > young people in global women’s human rights issues. Gayle is also a > facilitator for the Stanford Graduate School of Business for their > Interpersonal Dynamics course and their Women in Management program. > She mentors for the Thiel Foundation’s 20 Under 20 Fellowship program, > and generally supports futurist causes because she likes audacious > ideas and grand challenges. She has designed and facilitated > conferences for the Singularity Summit, BIL (TED’s un-conference > sibling), and the Seasteading Institute. She has a BA in psychology > from the University of San Francisco, and an MA in organizational > psychology from Alliant International University. > > I think Gayle will be a really great culture fit for the Wikimedia > movement. She's an iconoclastic geek who goes to ComicCon, but unlike > most geeks she is warm and people-centred: when she was a kid, she > wanted to grow up to be Deanna Troi from Star Trek. She’s insatiably > curious and reads widely. She was born in the Philippines and travels > annually with Spark, most recently to China and Cambodia. You can read > more about Gayle here on her userpage on the English Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GayleKaren, and you can see some of > the work she’s done for us here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GayleKaren/WMF_Recruiting_Strategy_Project > . > > I want to thank everyone who was involved in this long and elaborate > hiring process, and I want to especially thank Cyn. As the Wikimedia > Foundation's first CTCO Cyn had the unenviable task of breaking lots > of new ground – she leaves us in much better shape than she found us, > and I’m grateful to her for everything she's done for us. > > Gayle will start work January 3. She’s a foundation-l subscriber, so I > believe she will see any replies to this e-mail. I'm on holiday for > the next three days, so if there are any replies to this note that > need a response from me, you'll hear from me Friday. > > Thanks, > Sue > > > -- > > Sue Gardner > Executive Director > Wikimedia Foundation > > 415 839 6885 office > 415 816 9967 cell > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia > Foundation and its projects. 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