Nurture With Intention: The HR Truths Leaders Avoid

<p>Most companies do not have a culture problem. They have a leadership problem.</p><p>In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Maria Reis, a senior member of the HR leadership team at LG Electronics, to unpack what actually builds high-performing teams and what quietly destroys them.</p><p>Maria Reis is a results-driven HR executive with a career spanning financial services, retail, and global corporate HR. At LG Electronics, she sits at the forefront of creating a better life for people and a better future through smart life solutions, leading strategies that drive employee development, engagement, and retention. She is also a coach, a mentor, and a former president of the Junior League of Bergen County, where she has championed the development of women and community leadership for years.</p><p>This is not a surface-level conversation.</p><p>This is about:</p><p>   →  Why promoting high performers into leadership roles backfires</p><p>   →  The difference between culture on paper and culture in practice</p><p>   →  Why HR cannot fix the leadership problems leaders create</p><p>   →  What feedback actually looks like when it works</p><p>   →  Why organizational change fails (and it is not strategy)</p><p>   →  What women must unlearn to lead at the highest level</p><p>   →  The career risk Maria avoided out of fear and has never forgotten</p><p>Maria brings the perspective most people never hear: what is happening inside organizations when no one is saying it out loud.</p><p>If you have ever worked somewhere and thought &quot;something is off here,&quot; this episode will explain exactly why.</p><p><strong>ABOUT OUR GUEST:</strong></p><p>Maria Reis is a senior member of the HR leadership team at LG Electronics, where she sits at the forefront of creating a better life for people and a better future for the planet through smart life solutions. With a results-driven focus, she builds employee communities where HR strategies, services, and solutions drive development, engagement, satisfaction, and retention.</p><p>Her career spans financial services, retail, and global corporate HR, including significant tenure at Toys R Us where she held global responsibility for compensation and was part of major organizational transformations. She brings both the strategic depth of a senior executive and the hands-on conviction of a coach and mentor who has developed leaders at every level.</p><p>Outside of work, Maria is a former pres