Lay of The Land - #146: Megan Mayhugh (People Architects)

#146: Megan Mayhugh (People Architects)

12/14/23 • 72 min

Meg Mayhugh, Founder and Managing Partner at People Architects as well as the Head of Talent & people at Ninety.io the leading cloud-based business operating system and only officially licensed software for EOS (the Entrepreneurial Operating System), which recently closed its $35 million Series B funding, valuing the company at over $200 million!

Meg has decades of experience in talent and people management, leadership strategy, and HR writ-large with an amazing set of roles that led her professionally from:

bond and corporate debt trading,
to a McKinsey consultant,
to Chief People Officer, Chief Growth Officer, and Chief of Staff across firms like Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund,
to National City Bank and later PNC,
to Dealer Tire here in Cleveland,
to TalentLaunch with Aaron Grossman (who shared his story here on the Lay of The Land back on Episode #41),
to Ninety and Impact Architects with Kris Snyder (who shared his story back on Episode #98),

...to her own company today! Meg deeply believes that people are a business’s greatest asset and launched People Architects back in 2020 to help entrepreneurs manage this greatest asset. As a fractional Human Resources, Talent, and Recruiting firm, People Architects helps growing, small to medium-sized companies across process planning, people-optimization & employee engagement, and profit protection as Meg and her team coach other entrepreneurs to plan for growth and advise them on how to best manage risks to their organizations and win the war on talent.

Meg is incredibly passionate about all things people, and that passion comes through in spades in our conversation where we cover the gift of being fired, lessons learned from Ray Dalio and Bridgewater's unique culture, work-life integration, the eb-and-flow of trust between executives and employees, the role of transparency, fostering meaning and connection in the workplace, building a company as a mom of three, transferable lessons from sports to business, the power of mentors, a whole variety of other macro-level HR and People-oriented topics, the differences between leading very large and small company cultures, and lots more.

I’ve personally learned so much from Meg and really enjoyed this opportunity to package just a small piece of her earned wisdom into our conversation today —

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This episode is brought to you by Impact Architects. As we share the stories of entrepreneurs building incredible organizations throughout NEO, Impact Architects helps those leaders — many of whom we’ve heard from as guests on Lay of The Land — realize their visions and build great organizations. I believe in Impact Architects and the people behind it so much, that I have actually joined them personally in their mission to help leaders gain focus, align together, and thrive by doing what they love! As a listener, you can sit down for a free consultation with Impact Architects by visiting ia.layoftheland.fm!

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Connect with Meg Mayhugh — https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-mayhugh/
Learn more about People Architects — https://www.peoplearchitects.io/
Learn more about Ninety — https://www.ninety.io/

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For more episodes of Lay of The Land, visit https://www.layoftheland.fm/

Past guests include Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Steve Potash (OverDrive), Ed Largest (Westfield), Ray Leach (JumpStart),

Meg has decades of experience in talent and people management, leadership strategy, and HR writ-large with an amazing set of roles that led her professionally from:

bond and corporate debt trading,
to a McKinsey consultant,
to Chief People Officer, Chief Growth Officer, and Chief of Staff across firms like Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund,
to National City Bank and later PNC,
to Dealer Tire here in Cleveland,
to TalentLaunch with Aaron Grossman (who shared his story here on the Lay of The Land back on Episode #41),
to Ninety and Impact Architects with Kris Snyder (who shared his story back on Episode #98),

I’ve personally learned so much from Meg and really enjoyed this opportunity to package just a small piece of her earned wisdom into our conversation today —

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Connect with Meg Mayhugh — https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-mayhugh/
Learn more about People Architects — https://www.peoplearchitects.io/
Learn more about Ninety — https://www.ninety.io/

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For more episodes of Lay of The Land, visit https://www.layoftheland.fm/

Past guests include Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Steve Potash (OverDrive), Ed Largest (Westfield), Ray Leach (JumpStart),

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#145: Brian Krusz (Sgt. Clean Car Wash)

Brian Krusz is the Founder & Managing Partner at Sgt. Clean Car Wash — a premier express carwash organization proudly serving Northeast Ohio since 2013 with over a dozen locations throughout the region.

Under Brian’s leadership, Sgt. Clean has been recognized many times over as a five-time Inc 5,000 fastest growing private company winner, Weatherhead 100 winner, Smart Culture award recipient, and, having spent 8 years in the United States Marine Corps himself, a multi-time Vet100 winner as a proudly Veteran-owned-and-operated business, and of course, best car wash in Cleveland by Smart Business Magainze.

This was an awesome conversation — we cover the business of carwashes, how Brian got started in the industry, how Sgt. Clean Car Wash is changing the face of car washes, the influence of Brian’s time in the Marine Corps, his unique approach to recruiting, the implications & realities of ADHD, the role and opportunity for carwashing to positively impact local communities, building a lasting culture, and so much more.

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Connect with Brian Krusz on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-krusz-b943518/
Learn more about Sgt. Clean Car Wash — https://sgtclean.com/

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For more episodes of Lay of The Land, visit https://www.layoftheland.fm/

Past guests include Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Steve Potash (OverDrive), Ed Largest (Westfield), Ray Leach (JumpStart), Lila Mills (Signal Cleveland), Pat Conway (Great Lakes Brewing), Lindsay Watson (Augment Therapy), and many more.

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#147: Erin Singh (Options Naturopathic)

Erin Holston Singh, founder of Options Naturapathic, the Ohio Association of Naturopathic Doctors (OHNDA), and in private practice since 1999.

She had her first encounter with natural medicine at 15 years old when her mother developed a perplexing and seemingly incurable health condition which opened up a broad new world full of possibilities and ignited her passion for true healing. Since then, Erin made her life's work unlocking the mystery of non-specific illnesses that keep people miserable and sick when no solutions were to be had from conventional medicine. Over the past twenty-five years, she has worked to help patients avoid and stop pharmaceuticals by shifting practices that contribute to premature death using the wisdom of natural medicine to actively decode what is going on in their bodies and minds with all health issues. Her undying quest to find answers landed in the realm of cancer care, where she is now focused on creating a new culture of healthcare, from the ground up.

This was a perspective-enhancing and unconventional conversation in that Erin lays out her deviation from the conventions of traditional healthcare! Erin shares her journey through the world of medicine, her philosophy on care, her learnings from the status quo & desire to change the culture of healthcare, her entrepreneurial journey starting and building a practice and Options Naturopathic to a million-dollar natural medicine business, what natural medicine even is, the power of meditation, the implications of psychedelics, and lots more along the way.

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Learn more about Options Naturopathic — https://www.optionsnaturopathic.com/
Connect with Erin Holston Singh on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-erin-holston-singh-2535973

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