Putting the Humor in HR, An Interview with LuAnn Tarvin

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On this episode of Humor Talks, we’re chatting with LuAnn Tarvin. LuAnn is an HR Manager at the Gorilla Glue Company where she has helped oversee the company’s rapid growth… She’s also my mom!

We talk about how she learned humor, simple ways you can start to build humor into your culture, and just how adorably precocious I was as a child (and how that informs my humor today).

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