The Weather Company

She and I are not just friendly, we're friends.

And that friendship really came together as we sat next to each other at The Weather Company, back when we were tasked with evolving and growing it from being a publisher with B2B tentacles into an AI-enabled, data-driven enterprise partner, Watson Media.

That journey takes years.

And so we started it, but in this case, we never fully completed it.

To place us, it's the spring of 2017.

You and I were sharing a stage at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan as part of advertising week.

We were at the weather company, which had just been rebranded as Watson Media.

You were the chief revenue officer.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the HR Grapevine podcast.

I'm your host, Benjamin Broomfield, head of content here at HR Grapevine, and I'm joined today by Michelle Kilroy, chief human resources officer at The Weather Company.

Here, Michelle oversees the organization's human resources function globally, where she partners across the business to develop and implement progressive talent strategies to attract, grow, and retain top talent.

She's also an advocate of developing

So ultimately, I think we see trust as something that converts from strategy into execution because we know that employees effectively want to have an environment where they have high trust.

They want to have an environment where they can provide trust and where they can certainly receive trust from the business.

So at The Weather Company, I think we do that quite well.

It's ultimately something that You continue to get better at and you continue to evolve.

Now you can bet on whether or not the planet can survive the mounting pressures of climate change.

Through a new deal, Kalshi now has access to weather from the Weather Company, who owns the Weather Channel.

Yes, that's actually what it's called.

And they use this data to check the results of weather-related bets.