Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) is a critically important tool for understanding how to use data for better workplace relationships, culture, and decisions. Michael Arena, VP of Talent and Development for Amazon Web Services turns data into a bridge for connecting humanity to better ways of working, deciding, and relating to one another. A keynote speaker at the Organizational Network Analysis Summit hosted by OrgMapper and the team led by Andras Viscek, Michael's passion for data and desire to make optimal decisions benefiting talent and connection stood out. Jump into the conversation where we look at the ways in which understanding networks help leaders move past snap judgments when the environment is complex, to arrive at a more enlightened view.

Author of Adaptive Space and a big fan of ONA, Michael brings a passion and engineer's mind to understanding data and how it can connect people and their collective strength. Michael Arena is the vice president of talent and development at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he is responsible for global talent practices, leadership development, learning, organizational effectiveness, new employee success strategies conducting organizational research to facilitate growth and innovation of AWS. Before that, he was chief talent officer for General Motors Corporation (GM) responsible for enterprise talent management, cultural transformation, leadership development, talent acquisition, and people analytics. His book Adaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies Are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations, shares how employees can disrupt their workplaces to increase flexibility and adaptive capacity.

The Sloan article Michael refers to in this interview is located here: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/use-networks-to-drive-culture-change/

The ONA Summit was put on by OrgMapper.com. OrgMapper.org is referenced in the podcast. Contact the OrgMapper folks at .com.

Two other episodes to fill in more details are the ones with Maya Townsend and Andras Viscek. Maya's is EP77 and Andras's is EP38.

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