Patricia van de Sande — How To Trust Your Instincts and Succeed in Clean Tech Environments
On this episode, your host Oz Rashid is joined by Patricia van de Sande, Corporate Director at Arts Commons, and Business Advisor, former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Nexii Building Solutions, to discuss hiring people in high-growth environments like clean tech.
Patricia provides insightful answers about sourcing people in this space and describes why clean tech companies really need to live their values or risk losing their people.
Oz and Patricia chat about due diligence in acquisitions because the people aspect tends to be the toughest, and how bringing two cultures together with different services and offerings, will ultimately be the “make or break.”
Patricia advises that to avoid future problems, it is wise not to underestimate non-technical due diligence — for example; the people, processes and integration of systems.
Patricia is a big believer in listening to your gut when making hiring decisions. She explains to leaders how they can ensure that can trust the hiring capability of directors, managers and whoever else is on their team.
She puts an emphasis on value before dollars and shares how this prevents you from making mistakes.
Patricia provides questions for candidates to help judge culture fit and talks about why the timing of questions is critical.
Resources mentioned:
The Ideal Team Player (book)
Tech Conference
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