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Back to EpisodesHow Strong People Operations Fuel Freedom & Growth in Small Businesses
Description
Andee welcomes Kerri Roberts, founder of Salt & Light Advisors—a people operations and HR consultancy serving small and remote businesses. With over 20 years of strategic HR experience, Kerri now guides entrepreneurs in building scalable, people-centered operations.
What You Will Learn:
- Kerri’s Career Blueprint: How a strategic HR professional moved from healthcare and corporate C-suite roles to launching her own people operations firm.
- Courage vs. Confidence: Why stepping into “doing it scared” builds lasting confidence in your people-ops capabilities.
- Redefining Success: The mindset shift that traded material achievement for freedom, balance, and purpose.
- People Operations Fundamentals:
- Writing crystal-clear roles and SOPs
- Implementing a 30/60/90-day onboarding rhythm
- Tracking simple yet powerful performance metrics
- Streamlining your tech stack to eliminate overlap
- Cultivating culture through check-ins, peer forums, and gratitude rituals
- AI-Powered Process Mapping: How to use ChatGPT to draft org charts, SOP templates, and job descriptions in minutes.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- 🎧 Kerri’s podcast: Don’t Waste the Chaos (featuring Andee!)
- 📦 HR in a Box people operations collective
- 📚 Kerri’s new book, The HR Easy Button
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