Frida Polli is CEO &  Co-founder of pymetrics, the talent matching platform based on behavioral science and ethical AI. In this episode, MBO Partners talks with Frida about her experiences as a female founder to her application of years in neuroscience research for an AI-driven future of work platform that increases organizational diversity. Frida talks about how, after ten years in academic neuroscience at Harvard and MIT, she was yearning to apply all the advances in what has been uncovered about human behavior to make headway on actual human decision-making challenges. She founded pymetrics to apply these cognitive science insights to hiring, mobility, and reskilling.

She also speaks about the need for algorithmic tools in this space to be designed ethically, specifically in terms of being designed to eliminate disparate impact, or yielding outcomes with gender or ethnic bias. She talks about the impact of algorithms in assessing hard and soft skills and matching jobs to people, particularly independent professionals. 

About This Episode’s Guest

Frida Polli is CEO & Co-founder of pymetrics, the talent matching platform based on behavioral science and ethical AI.  Prior to becoming a tech entrepreneur, she was a neuroscience researcher who pursued pre-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School and a post-doctoral fellowship at MIT.  With global clients including BCG, Kraft Heinz and McDonald’s, pymetrics has matched hundreds of thousands of people with their ideal jobs, while removing bias from the process. Frida is a thought leader on the future of ethical AI and HR technology. She regularly speaks at events such as the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, CogX, MAKERS, Collision Conference, Dreamforce, TechCrunch Disrupt, WebSummit, SXSW, and MIT EmTech Digital. Her publications include two dozen scientific articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Brain, and Journal of Neuroscience, and popular press articles in HBR and FastCompany. She has appeared on lists including Inc’s Female Founders 100, Entrepreneur’s 100 Powerful Women, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women NextGen, and HRE’s Top 100 HR Tech Influencers.

About MBO Partners®

MBO Partners is a deep jobs platform that connects and enables independent professionals and microbusiness owners to do business safely and effectively with enterprise organizations. Its unmatched experience and industry leadership enable it to operate on the forefront of the independent economy and consistently advance the next way of working.  For more information, visit​ mbopartners.com.

Episode hosted by Aassia Haq; produced, edited, and engineered by Leslie Jennings Rowley. With music by Brian Burrows

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