Listening to Employees with Jenny do Forno

Talent Management Truths

“Find ways for people to participate.”

- Jenny do Forno

How do YOU listen to your employees? How do you find ways for them to participate in change and the company’s success? Tune into this episode to refresh your passion for listening to the people you serve and for treating them as fully-formed adults.

My guest is Jenny do Forno who is the Talent Director at OMERS Ventures where she is part of the Operations team supporting 55 different start-up companies. She also helps the Investment Deal teams evaluate new ventures. Her day is highly variable and all about context-switching - she might be advising one founder on an organizational redesign at 11am and then providing vendor recommendations to a newly-minted HR consultant at 2pm.

In this episode of Talent Management Truths, you’ll discover:

🍏 The different between supporting a larger, mature organization and a startup venture firm

🍏 A simple principle for ensuring that the Great Resignation doesn’t impact you as much

🍏 An alternative to “best” practices

About Jenny do Forno: In her role as Talent Director and a member of the Operations team, Jenny works closely with the senior leadership and operations teams of our portfolio companies to drive the talent and people strategies that support scale and growth. Jenny joined the OMERS Ventures team in 2019.

Jenny brings over 20 years of experience creating talent strategies and programs that build award-winning cultures. The breadth of her experience covers both large enterprise organizations and startups – supporting throughout multiple funding rounds, debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, and beyond.

Prior to joining OMERS Ventures, Jenny worked in several HR leadership roles at top executive search firms, as well as companies such as Moneris Solutions and Info-Tech Research Group. Most recently, Jenny spent the last several years as part of the founding team at Canadian fintech startup Nest Wealth.

Jenny lives in Toronto and holds a degree in political studies fro

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