at General Electric when it was still considered a leadership “academy” vaunted for its management succession machine. Bock worked as a consultant at McKinsey during the late dot-com boom in the mid-2000s, he worked in H.R. tech entrepreneur amid boom times for the sector is fitting for someone who’s had a knack for working at companies that have shaped the business world’s approach to talent management in recent decades. issues and people challenges inside companies is every single person has their own intuition.” “Unless you actually run the experiments and work in the field, whose opinion is more valid than anyone else’s?” issues and people challenges inside companies is every single person has their own intuition about what the right answer is,” says Bock.
The company will also invest in creating more tools for managers, such as automating meeting invites and other routine tasks, allowing more control over which nudges are sent and notifying them when teams have low morale. The new capital raise will be used, Bock says, to adapt Humu's platform to work better for “deskless” employees, such as front-line retail workers and delivery drivers. Its client list has grown by about six times in the last two years, he says, and includes Virgin Atlantic, Vodafone and Fidelity Investments.
But he says the company works with two of the top three companies in several major industries, which include pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, technology and chemicals. Nudging multiple people on similar issues helps drive change, Bock says: A manager might get a reminder before a meeting to urge quiet workers to say something at the same time, coworkers get suggestions to seek colleagues’ input.īock says Humu won’t disclose revenues or an overall valuation. Humu’s “nudges” send reminders for things like giving co-workers credit in meetings, checking in on other teams’ project deadlines or getting quiet teammates to speak up. Many platforms offer record-keeping or worker surveys, she says, but “the one thing that you don’t have in your suite is a platform to help you figure out what to do.” Every single customer cited that,” says Jessica Neal, a former talent chief at Netflix who is now a TCV venture partner and will join Humu’s board. “The thing that got me, as a CHRO, is that they saw behavioral change.
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