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Culture Uncovered PolicyMeYes, you can buy life insurance without all the paperwork.Meet PolicyMe, Canada’s leading digital insurance platform that’s simplifying life, health, and critical illness coverage for families nationwide. In this episode, Jena chats with Vanesa Cotlar, VP of People and Culture, about what it’s like to work for a company that’s modernizing an entire industry while keeping its people curious, humble, and connected (even remotely).What you’ll learn:How PolicyMe is transforming insurance from paper-heavy to fully d...

2025-10-1538 min

Growth Is Personal with Emeka Nwarulor #75: Vanesa Cotlar: How to Get Hired in 2024 and beyond: HR Insights on Attracting and Landing Your Dream Job.Vanesa Cotlar is an ambitious HR leader who has workedin over 20 countries, bringing a global perspective into everything she does. She is passionate about building flexible workplaces and advocates for transparency and ongoing feedback to increase attraction and retention of top talent, evident in her work as VP of People & Culture at PolicyMe. Previously, Vanesa Co-Founded an HR tech start-up focused on removing bias in the application and hiring processes, led People Operations at iQmetrix, and worked as a Management Consultant at Monitor Deloitte Canada, providing strategic guidance to F500 companies.In her spare tim...

2024-09-1644 min

The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR 190 - Melanie Naranjo (VP, People, Ethena) & Vanesa Cotlar (VP, People & Culture, PolicyMe) on Performance ManagementVanesa Cotlar (VP, People & Culture, PolicyMe) and Melanie Naranjo (VP, People, Ethena) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We discussed the three questions every manager should be asking themselves about their direct reports, why setting expectations with new hires can go a long way in improving performance, and how to create a common language for employees around performance. ---- This episode was brought to you by Great Place To Work®. Learn more at greatplacetowork.com/mpl. ---- (1:29) Good news stories (8:43) What’s new with Vanesa and Mela...

2024-07-1652 min

Unstoppable Mindset Unstoppable People-First Leader with Vanesa Cotlar“People-first leader” is how Vanesa Cotlar describes herself. She and her family moved from Argentina to Canada when Vanesa was nine years old. She says that while she had challenges due to language and landing in a world totally unfamiliar to her Argentine senses, she learned that not everyone or every place is the same. That knowledge in part is what pointed her in the direction of a people-oriented career. After obtaining a business degree from Queens University Vanesa began her professional work with companies helping them to better fit people and jobs into a framework to make...

2024-02-0658 min

RawTalk Building a Strong Company Culture in a Remote Work Environment with Vanesa Cotlar | Episode 25Welcome back to the Kindred Spirits Podcast. In this episode, we are joined by HR thought leader and one of Culture Amp's Top 25 Emerging Culture Creators for 2024, Vanesa Cotlar. Vanesa is an ambitious, people-first leader who spends her days as the VP of People & Culture at PolicyMe. She is passionate about building flexible workplaces and advocates for transparency and ongoing feedback from employees to increase attraction, retention and satisfaction. Vanesa's impressive background includes working in over 15 countries, serving as a Management Consultant at Monitor Deloitte Canada, and co-founding Octagon Careers, an HR-tech start-up.

2024-01-1731 min

HR on the Frontline How to Thrive in a Small HR Team w/Vanesa Cotlar (PolicyMe)Send us a textWhat do you do when your People Team doesn’t actually have that many people in it?It takes a lot of work to build a strong culture… but sometimes, HR isn’t given all the resources it needs.So, how do you make it work when there’s only a couple of you – or even just one of you – handling recruitment, engagement, recognition, and everything else? How do you thrive in a small HR team? HR on the Frontline deliver...

2023-11-1635 min

The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR 138 - Building culture in a remote-first environment: Vanesa Cotlar (VP People & Culture, PolicyMe)Vanesa Cotlar, VP of People & Culture at PolicyMe, joined us on The Modern People Leader. She shared how to get executive buy-in on people team hires you plan to make, what goes into building culture in a remote-first environment, and how to build trust remotely. ---- This episode was brought to you by CandorIQ. Learn more here. ---- (2:25) Good news stories (7:52) Vanesa’s career journey (12:54) How being a founder has helped her as a People Leader (15:26) What PolicyMe does (17:25) Employee choice & AI in...

2023-10-301h 10

The Feminine Founder 13:{Interview} Recruiting and Hiring Top Talent with Vanesa CotlarText me!In today's episode, Vanesa Cotlar and I discuss a super important topic: Finding and Keeping Top Talent! Vanesa has a decade of experience working in the people and culture space and currently serves as the VP of People and Culture at PolicyMe. Vanesa and I dig deep into key topics such as employer branding, effective outreach strategies and the importance of participating in events. You can find Vanesa HERE. Want to support the show? Subscribe HERE This is an episode that you do not want to miss!Support the s...

2023-07-1127 min

Recruiting is No Joke Episode 18: Remote work can work when you are smartHappy 2023! After a short break, we are back with another Live episode of Recruiting is no joke. This week I'm excited to chat with Vanesa Cotlar, MBA Cotlar, VP of People & Culture at PolicyMe a Series A funded insurance company.Vanesa has a deep background that includes many years as a consultant to C-Level and Senior executives on corporate and business strategy.She has been leading the people function, for the past 18 months, at PolicyMe and is an avid content creator on Linkedin always producing highly valuable content for the HR community.

2023-06-2851 min

we got this When to bring on your first senior HR/Culture person: advice (not only) for startupsIn this episode Lech Guzowski speaks with Vanesa Cotlar, VP of People and Culture at Policy Me, about when is the right time to bring on a HR person or culture hire in a growing organisation. Vanesa shares her unique perspective on how to build a flexible and transparent workplace. She discusses the importance of bringing in a strategic people hire early on to set the right culture and strategy for the organisation's growth. The conversation also touches on how organisations can build a culture that promotes happiness and fulfilment at work, aiming for 80% happiness.

2023-04-2450 min

Opsy Employee Engagement with Vanesa CotlarCan remote teams really be as engaged and productive as colocated teams? We think so! And our guest Vanesa Cotlar is here to tell us exactly how she does it at PolicyMe, a hybrid and remote team based out of Toronto.Show NotesShow notes and a full transcript of this episode is available at opsy.work.Connect with usAre you an opsy person in tech? Join our community at Opsy.work.Caro Griffin is on LinkedIn and Twitter.Vanesa Cotlar is on LinkedIn.

2023-04-1245 min

Startupville Ep 80 - Startup Summit - See you at the top! Part 1Startup Summit is a local conference that focuses on connecting founders, mentors and investors from across North America through curated 1:1 sessions, workshops, keynotes and panel discussions. This year, Startup Summit was bigger and better than ever. Returning to an in-person format at Cultivator's new headquarters in Regina, Saskatchewan, more than 350 attendees gathered to learn, network and help grow the Saskatchewan tech ecosystem. Startupville received a personal invitation to bring the Startupville Thunderdome to the conference to record live exclusive interviews with some of the speakers, investors and startup founders. We’re excited to share this co...

2022-10-3130 min

Young Money with Tracey Bissett EP112 Milli Moves: Financial Fitness Tips from listeners Kelly & VanesaKelly Fillman is the Operations Manager for Eleanor Beaton & Company, an organization that advises women entrepreneurs on presence, power, and strategic growth. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Western University in 2017. Kelly is a volleyball coach, animal lover, and mentor to young girls as well as a community volunteer for Autism Nova Scotia and the Alumni Coordinator for Rothesay Netherwood School. Vanesa Cotlar is a strategic leader and Business Development Manager for Economic Development Winnipeg, where she focuses on growing the Winnipeg economy by increasing the strength of the talent ecosystem. She w...

2019-11-2642 min