Live Event: 2024 Seattle + Bellevue 🎙️ Episodes

193
Feb. 5, 2025

#193: Strategic HR Evolution: Building Culture-Driven IT Organizations with Will Smith, Chief of Staff at the City of Seattle IT

Featuring:
Will Smith, Chief of Staff at City of Seattle IT


In this episode, you’ll learn:

How Seattle IT revolutionized HR by embedding dedicated business partners within each department, transforming traditional personnel management into strategic partnerships that understand both technical operations and business goals


The critical intersection of organizational psychology and tech leadership, through Smith's doctoral research on how growth mindset principles drive successful cultural ...
Guest: Will Smith
192
Jan. 30, 2025

#192: From Forms to Freedom: Building Digital Services That Citizens Actually Want

Featuring:

Soumam Debgupta, CTO, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services


Rob Lloyd, CTO, City of Seattle
Chris Chirgwin, CIO, County of Santa Barbara


In this episode, you’ll learn:

How Washington State DSHS reduced benefit application times from 50 minutes to 25 minutes by reimagining service delivery through a customer-first lens


Why setting an ambitious 85% customer satisfaction goal is driving cultural transformation and transparency in government services


The ...