Articles by Britt Sellin and Michael Ross

Britt Sellin, Executive Advisor, BetterUp is passionate about people and their collective strength in an organization. She believes marrying business strategy with a positive culture and the individual needs of employees is the most important work any Human Resources professional can do. In Britt’s previous role as Cloudera’s SVP of HR, she built the HR function over six years while enabling company “hyper” growth: taking a pre-IPO Cloudera with 300 employees in two countries to a public company with 3,000 employees operating in 28 countries. She also sponsored and grew Cloudera Cares, an employee-led philanthropic effort. Britt has held a variety of executive roles at other companies including VMware and Sun Microsystem.

Michael Ross, BetterUp Advisor, is currently an investor and advisor to growth companies in HR technology and is the former chief human resources officer for Visa. In this role, he was responsible for managing all human resource functions in the organization, including talent management, staffing, compensation, and employee relations, as well as developing effective retention, diversity, and performance management strategies. Ross was previously chief talent and rewards officer for HP and worked in Merrill Lynch’s human resources division in New York and London. He is currently a Lecturer, Organizational Behavior, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.