Andrea Cooper, Chief Officer at Talkspace: Surround Yourself With People Smarter Than You
Andrea Cooper is Chief People Officer of Talkspace. She grew up in a small town in Kentucky, one of five children in a family without much money, where nobody talked about work and the words "human resources" were never said out loud.
She started at Walmart at 19, a full-time student at the University of Kentucky on her way to becoming a social worker, supervising cashiers for about $5.25 an hour. Her store manager asked what she would earn out of college. Seventeen thousand, she said. He told her the management training programme would pay thirty. She called her mother, who said she would…
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