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Culture is changing fast and employees are looking for something steadier from the workplace: trust, clarity, and leadership that actually listens. On June 10 at #Lattiverse, Sparrow CEO and Co-founder, Deborah Hanus will join HR leaders for a candid conversation about what healthy culture looks like in practice today and how organizations can support people through ongoing change with both empathy and accountability. 📍 What Does a ‘Healthy’ Culture Actually Look Like? ⏰ 2:35–3:20 PM PT Featuring: ✨ Mia Remar (she/her) Senior Director, Talent Development, Lattice ✨ Megan Barbier, Chief Human Resources Officer, Xactly Corp ✨ iezana mekonnen, CEO, avenirHR ✨ Deborah Hanus, CEO and Co-founder, Sparrow If you’ll be at Lattiverse, the Sparrow team will also be onsite throughout the event and we’d love to connect. Register here: https://lnkd.in/d-dAxdZr #HRLeadership #WorkplaceCulture #PeopleOps #FlyWithSparrow

"This is the one area we don't compromise." That's how Liana Rodriguez, Head of Global People Operations at Viz.ai, describes her team's approach to leave management. Viz.ai is a fully remote healthcare tech company with employees across 35 states and the Middle East. Every state. Different laws. A small people ops team. And one clear value: Kindness wins. For Liana, that value isn't aspirational. It's operational and shows up in how the company handles parental, medical, and caregiving leave. All the moments when employees are most vulnerable. Liana explains why in the video below. Transform #Transform2026 #FutureOfWork #FlyWithSparrow #HRLeadership

Welcoming Archie Ford,MBA,PMP, Senior Benefits Manager at Reddit, Inc., to our Sparrow Advisory Council. Archie brings a strong focus on how technology can help modernize the leave experience and better equip employers to support their people at scale. His emphasis on continuous evolution reflects the growing expectation for leave solutions to move faster, work smarter, and keep pace with the needs of modern organizations. Looking forward to the insight Archie will bring to this group. #EmployeeBenefits #LeaveManagement #HRTechnology #PeopleOperations #FlyWithSparrow

A company promotes its generous parental leave policy to attract talent. Then an employee takes the leave and comes back to a lower performance rating, a missed promotion, or a reduced role. That tension sits at the center of Fast Company’s latest piece from Pavithra Mohan, which weaves together Mita Mallick’s experience navigating parental leave and workplace bias with broader questions about how organizations operationalize support for working parents. At Sparrow, we see how difficult these moments can be for HR teams to navigate well, especially when leave is managed manually across fragmented systems. This is exactly why Sparrow exists: to help HR teams manage leave with the operational support, expertise, and automation needed to create more consistent employee experiences across the leave lifecycle. We appreciated the opportunity for Sparrow CEO and Co-founder Deborah Hanus to contribute to this important conversation. Read the full piece from Fast Company here: https://lnkd.in/gmdmkXCy #ParentalLeave #LeaveManagement #EmployeeExperience #FlyWithSparrow

The hardest part of leave management usually comes from how many moving pieces are involved at the same time. 💡 State requirements change. Payroll adjustments need to stay accurate. Employees and managers need updates. Timelines shift. Paperwork piles up. At Ziff Davis, managing all of that manually became increasingly difficult as the company continued to grow. With Sparrow, leave plans, payroll reporting, compliance, and employee communication are all connected in one place, giving the Benefits team more visibility and a clearer path forward day to day. Employees also have dedicated support throughout leave, with Sparrow Leave Specialists helping them navigate paperwork, timelines, filings, and questions along the way. Thank you to Georgina Mena, PHR, Alicia Berland, and Alison Crooks for sharing more about the partnership. 👉 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gD9fjAft #PeopleOps #HRTech #LeaveManagement #EmployeeExperience #FlyWithSparrow

Introducing another member of our Sparrow Advisory Council: Evangeline M., Director, Benefits at Chime. Evangeline brings a strong focus on building leave experiences that are easier to manage for People teams while still delivering meaningful support for employees during critical life moments. Her interest in more seamless and scalable approaches reflects the growing need for leave solutions that can evolve alongside modern organizations. We’re looking forward to the insight and collaboration Evangeline will bring to this group. #Benefits #EmployeeBenefits #LeaveManagement #PeopleOperations #FlyWithSparrow

We recently had the opportunity to celebrate Sparrow’s President’s Club in Napa, and it served as an important reminder of why recognition matters. President’s Club gives us the opportunity to pause, reflect on a year of milestones, and celebrate the relationships and experiences that shape our company along the way. Moments like these create space to connect, appreciate shared accomplishments, and strengthen the partnerships that are such an important part of how we grow. Throughout the week, from the welcome reception and group experiences to the awards dinner and conversations in between, the focus was on connection, appreciation, and celebrating an incredible year together. We were especially grateful to share the experience with several of our top referral partners and Sparrow executives who joined us throughout the week. Spending time together in person continues to be one of the most valuable ways to deepen relationships and build for the future. Thank you to everyone who helped make the experience memorable. We’re leaving Napa energized and grateful for the momentum ahead. #FlyWithSparrow

He got paid a week after his daughter was born. His wife waited four months. Same life moment. Completely different leave experiences. Kent Turtletaub, a Senior Account Executive at Sparrow, lived that contrast firsthand. Sparrow managed his leave; his wife was navigating it alone. Her claim was denied, and her account was suspended. She had to call the state at 8 a.m. while caring for a newborn. That gap is what Sparrow's mission is actually about. It deepened something for Kent. Not just belief in what Sparrow does, but why it matters that more people experience leave the "Sparrow Way." Leave is often a result of the most significant moments in someone's life. There's no reason it should be stressful. Kent tells his story at Transform better than we can ⬇️ #Transform2026 #FlyWithSparrow #HRLeadership #ParentalLeave #Caregiving

We're excited to highlight another leader from our Sparrow Advisory Council: Casey Vella, Senior Manager, Global Benefits at Vanta. Casey’s perspective reflects the importance of making leave easier to navigate for both employees and employers, especially during some of life’s most pivotal moments. Her focus on clarity, support, and simplifying the leave experience speaks to the growing need for solutions that help organizations better care for their people. Her experience will help drive thoughtful conversations around the future of leave and employee support. #GlobalBenefits #EmployeeBenefits #LeaveManagement #PeopleOperations #FlyWithSparrow

There’s no clean line between "work" and "life" when raising young children — and sometimes those worlds collide on a conference stage. Last year, while I was speaking on a panel at SHRM, my 1 year old decided it was time to nurse. Before anyone could stop her, she had crawled on stage to find me. So I held her, continued the conversation, and someone captured this moment. I didn’t expect the photo to travel as widely as it did. But I think it resonated because we still rarely see mothers fully visible in professional spaces — not after neatly compartmentalizing caregiving, but while actively living it. At the time, it just felt like one of those very real motherhood moments: you adapt, you continue, you do what your child needs. Maybe one day moments like this won’t feel noteworthy at all. #MothersDay #WorkingMoms #WomenInLeadership #FutureOfWork 📷 Tracy Westcott