Hire Learning with Oz Rashid is a series of raw, honest, and entertaining conversations with top-performing business leaders across an array of industries that focus on the one thing every business leader has to play a part in: finding top talent.
The reality is that making the right or wrong decisions when hiring not only impacts you as a leader - it affects every aspect of the business.
The goal of the show is to help business leaders learn new ways of approaching the way they identify and engage top talent.
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Hire Learning with Oz Rashid is a series of raw, honest, and entertaining conversations with top-performing business leaders across an array of industries that focus on the one thing every business leader has to play a part in: finding top talent.
The reality is that making the right or wrong decisions when hiring not only impacts you as a leader - it affects every aspect of the business.
The goal of the show is to help business leaders learn new ways of approaching the way they identify and engage top talent.
Follow us on:
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We’re joined by Daniel Gandarilla, Chief Human Resources Officer of Gulf Coast Blood Center and former Chief Talent Officer of Atrium Health. A Stanford alum, Daniel also holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership, and won the 2017 Strategy Gold Award for his innovative L&D programs at Texas Health Resources. Daniel’s career journey spans education, leadership development, and HR strategy. In this episode, he shares lessons on hiring for potential, building complementary teams, the role of change management, and how AI is reshaping HR.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction.
02:46 Career pivot from education into workforce development and HR.
07:10 Leading large-scale change management initiatives at Texas Health.
11:19 Spotting NVIDIA’s rise showed the value of market awareness.
15:27 Lessons from “The Fifth Discipline” on systems and mental models.
20:05 Hiring requires knowing the real job to be done.
23:18 Favorite interview questions reveal environment fit and personal pride.
25:17 Flipping interviews gives candidates peer insights into culture.
28:06 Hiring for complementary skills avoids “cloning yourself” mistakes.
31:02 AI can streamline HR tasks like job descriptions.
35:03 Careers are not linear, and multiple paths can still lead you forward.
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dgandarilla/
Gulf Coast Blood Center | LinkedIn -
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gulfcoastblood/
http://www.giveblood.org/
"The Fifth Discipline" by Peter M. Senge -
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Organization/dp/0385517254
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