Our first Mercato Partners-hosted HR Salon was held in February of this year, and we recently brought the same group together for its sixth session. This HR Salon Series is the brainchild of Dennis Wood, Vice President of the Human Capital Practice at Mercato. Dennis states, “What we have found is that by inviting a consistent group of HR leaders in a “closed-circuit” environment, we’re able to maximize knowledge exchange because trust is high.”

The group consists of CHRO’s, SVP’s and VP’s of HR across a number of thriving Utah-based companies, including Instructure, Dwelo, Vivint Solar, Mountain America Credit Union, PrinterLogic and HireVue. The group even maintains a closed slack channel for all members to allow for real-time communication, problem-solving and idea-sharing in perfect confidentiality. 

Topics have included: 

• How to Align Talent Execution to the Firm’s Vision and Strategy

• Best Practices: HR Order of Operations

• Attracting Diverse, World-Class Talent

• Operational Execution Strategies in a Rapid-Growth Environment

• Performance Management that Matters

Because each company that participates is so different, and each HR leader also diverse in background and experience, the group is especially powerful in aggregate. “It never ceases to amaze me how each leader in the group is passionate about corporate growth,” said Dennis, “but they never sacrifice or compromise the level of deep care they have for their fellow employees. They live to support the humans, first and foremost.”