EP # 2 Mia Lim: You Need To Stop Speaking HR & Start Speaking Human

Episode notes

Most HR leaders walk into organizations armed with frameworks, programs, and best practices. Mia walked in and just... listened. In this episode, I sat down with Mia, Head of People for TALA in the Philippines and Vietnam — a leader whose career path is anything but traditional. She started in brand management, moved through change management and consulting, got certified as an executive coach, and eventually found her way to one of the most people-forward roles in the Philippine tech space. What makes Mia's perspective rare isn't her credentials. It's her relentless insistence on context — on actually understanding what people's work lives look like before designing anything for them. They go deep on what real organizational transformation requires, why change so often fails at the last mile, and how a forwarded email she wasn't supposed to see became one of the most important leadership lessons of her career.