Every employee at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, from the clinicians to the people cleaning patient rooms, is expected to give the same answer when asked what they do: “I find cures and save children.”
Dana is the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where she’s spent nearly three decades helping the organization recruit and retain talent against biotech giants and coastal salaries it simply can’t match on paper. In this episode, she talks about how St. Jude leans on mission instead, why a campus visit can change a candidate’s mind in an instant, and how her team is thinking through AI without losing sight of the people doing the work.
You’ll also hear:
- Why she believes anyone can learn HR, but not everyone can learn resilience and relationship building
- How St. Jude’s CEO uses the line “If not St. Jude, then who?” to recruit against for-profit competitors
- How St. Jude’s AI council decides what gets piloted and what gets shelved
Connect with Dana: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-bottenfield-5b38541/
Learn more about St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: www.stjude.org
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