Ep 194: Lori Bradley of Chewy - ”The Experimenter”

This week’s guest is Lori Bradley. She’s the Vice President for Talent at Chewy. Lori sees the management and development of talent through multiple lenses. Academic. Strategic. Intellectual. For sure. But the perspective she brings that sits on top of all of these is the most important of all. The human one.

Here’s something you already know if you listen to this podcast. People that choose to work in creative business are complicated and unpredictable.

Despite which, so many business try so very hard to build single model operations that view all members of a group or a department or a discipline as being the same.

No wonder that most businesses leave millions of dollars of untapped creativity and innovation on the table every night.

Lori used the word experiment three times in about ten seconds.

Can you remember the last time that word was used in any leadership team meeting you’ve been part of in the last few months?

There’s no way back. There’s no one way forward. And no way of knowing which way is going to work.

The future is waiting to be invented - by those who are brave enough to experiment.