LISTEN: https://www.thepozcast.com/512
Building Teams Where Humanity Meets High Performance: Angela Briggs-Paige (LIVE @ Transform 2026)
Recorded live at Transform 2026, this episode brings together host Adam Poser and Angela Briggs-Paige — Chief People Officer, founder of People Power, and one of the most candid voices in the HR world on what it actually takes to build workplaces where people thrive. Angela's path into HR was anything but planned. She went to college intending to become a doctor, majored in biology, minored in classical languages, and stumbled into HR through a work-study job for a dean.
What started as an accident became a calling — and eventually a mission to push organizations past the compliance-and-process version of HR toward something far more human and business-driven. In this conversation, Angela gets genuinely vulnerable — sharing a story from early in her career when she followed policy over people and terminated an employee who needed more support, and the lasting lesson that taught her.
She lays out her three-layer framework for thinking about employee benefits (foundations, flexibility, and growth and recognition), makes a compelling case for caregiver benefits as one of the most overlooked tools in total rewards, and introduces a concept that stops the conversation cold: presenteeism — the hidden cost of employees who are physically present but mentally checked out.
Angela also walks through exactly how she'd pitch a skeptical CFO on life concierge benefits, using absence data, leave costs, and retention math to build an airtight ROI case. This is a tight, high-signal episode with real frameworks, real stories, and a perspective on HR that's hard to find anywhere else.
Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-briggs-paige/
These episodes of #thePOZcast, live from Transform 2026 in Las Vegas, are proudly brought to you by our friends at Overalls
What if your employees had one central hub to handle real life? Meet Overalls. A smarter way to support your team, combining expert human LifeConcierges™ with AI to solve everyday challenges across healthcare, caregiving, benefits, insurance, finances, life admin, and more.
From start to finish, Overalls handles the details — using existing benefits where they fit, and filling in the gaps where they don’t. So employees save time, reduce stress, and stay focused at work, while employers boost engagement and get more value from their benefits. Overalls is redefining how work supports life, helping employee teams from Reddit, Patreon, BeatBox, and more cross pesky to-dos off their lists every day.
Learn more at https://getoveralls.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=pozcast
Thanks for listening, and please follow us on Insta @NHPTalent and www.youtube.com/thePOZcast
For all episodes, please check out www.thePOZcast.com
