In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, co-host Dr. Hemma R. Lomax sits down with Rebecca Taylor, HR leader, entrepreneur, community builder, and host of the HR Voices podcast, to talk about employee voice, trust, culture, leadership, and the future of employee relations.
Rebecca shares what more than a decade in HR has taught her about difficult workplace decisions, the signals hidden beneath complaints, and why what happens after someone speaks matters just as much as creating the space for them to speak in the first place.
Highlights include:
- Why employees are the culture and voice is one of its most important signals.
- Why difficult workplace situations often contain multiple truths at once.
- How leaders can build trust by explaining the reasoning behind decisions.
- Why complaints and hotline reports should be treated as useful data, not noise.
- How HR and compliance professionals can influence leaders by meeting them where they are.
- How AI can bring richer context to employee relations by connecting fragmented workplace data.
Hemma promised to share a link to Rebecca’s integrity anthem: Starálfur” by Sigur Rós, from the album Ágætis byrjun. Check it out here. Starálfur, or Ágætis byrjun—Sigur Rós official site here: https://sigurros.com/music/agaetis-byrjun/
About Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca Taylor is a people and workplace leader with more than a decade of experience across HR, employee relations, leadership, coaching, and workplace technology. She is the former co-founder and COO of SkillCycle, a coaching platform built for the AI era, and today leads community and content at AllVoices, an AI-native employee relations platform. She also hosts the HR Voices podcast, where she speaks with practitioners working through the realities of modern HR and employee relations.
Rebecca is passionate about employee voice, workplace culture, community, and helping organizations understand the human context behind the signals their people provide. A lifelong writer and former college DJ, she has built a career around listening closely, asking what sits beneath the surface, and connecting people and ideas across the workplace.