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Mallory Herron

Mallory Herron

CEO and Principal HR Consultant of HerrinHR, award-winning speaker, certified coach (SPHR, SHRM-CP, CPLC), and author of Intentional HR: A Revolution in Strategic Thinking.

Aug 13, 2026

15:06
Can you think about a time in your life or your career where something hit you and you felt like it was time to get curious about yourself and you started doing a little bit more of that self-awareness or deeper self-reflection type of work?
15:24
Yeah, it's happened a few times.
15:27
So initially being handed HR and having no clue what I was doing, that was rough.
15:33
So it was a smaller company, only about 150 employees or so, but having someone so inexperienced and I feel like, I mean, I was in my early twenties, I was just a kid.
15:43
So not knowing what I was doing and being given that much responsibility has a great way to just make you feel like crap because you're face to face with your inability on a daily basis.
15:59
And I've always been sensitive to feedback and it wasn't that I was necessarily getting it at the time, but if I was getting it, it was most definitely like, Hey, you need to do a little better here and learn some stuff there.
16:14
Right.

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