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How to optimize a people team budget (especially a small one!)

Gary Vanbutsele Season 2 Episode 8

How to optimize a people team budget (especially a small/ frugal one)?

We spoke to Nadia Vatalidis to talk about 3 ways to optimize small people budgets.

Nadia is the Head of People & Culture at TestGorilla and is excited to support their mission of putting one billion people in their dream jobs. 

Previously VP of People at Remote, where she scaled the company from 70 to 1000 employees in more than 60 countries. Nadia started her first remote-only role at GitLab, where she lead People Operations, People Engineering, and International Expansion. 

She helped scale GitLab from 75 to 1300 employees, and they have since become a public trading company. When she is not working, she is hiking with the fam, trying out new plant-based recipes, chasing Frenchies around the garden or taking her Scott Spark 910 29'er for a spin! 

Listen up if you want to hear

  1. Why budgets matter
  2. How to still have great tools with a small budget
  3. How to align headcount to budgets
  4. Being the strategic partner to the organization in sustainability and efficiency 

Here's to unlocking the next level of growth!
Gary and the team at Whale

For more great resources on all things scaling up and team training go to usewhale.io/blog/

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