Most companies do not have a culture problem. They have a leadership problem.
In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Maria Reis, a senior member of the HR leadership team at LG Electronics, to unpack what actually builds high-performing teams and what quietly destroys them.
Maria Reis is a results-driven HR executive with a career spanning financial services, retail, and global corporate HR. At LG Electronics, she sits at the forefront of creating a better life for people and a better future through smart life solutions, leading strategies that drive employee development, engagement, and retention. She is also a coach, a mentor, and a former president of the Junior League of Bergen County, where she has championed the development of women and community leadership for years.
This is not a surface-level conversation.
This is about:
→ Why promoting high performers into leadership roles backfires
→ The difference between culture on paper and culture in practice
→ Why HR cannot fix the leadership problems leaders create
→ What feedback actually looks like when it works
→ Why organizational change fails (and it is not strategy)
→ What women must unlearn to lead at the highest level
→ The career risk Maria avoided out of fear and has never forgotten
Maria brings the perspective most people never hear: what is happening inside organizations when no one is saying it out loud.
If you have ever worked somewhere and thought “something is off here,” this episode will explain exactly why.
ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Maria Reis is a senior member of the HR leadership team at LG Electronics, where she sits at the forefront of creating a better life for people and a better future for the planet through smart life solutions. With a results-driven focus, she builds employee communities where HR strategies, services, and solutions drive development, engagement, satisfaction, and retention.
Her career spans financial services, retail, and global corporate HR, including significant tenure at Toys R Us where she held global responsibility for compensation and was part of major organizational transformations. She brings both the strategic depth of a senior executive and the hands-on conviction of a coach and mentor who has developed leaders at every level.
Outside of work, Maria is a former president of the Junior League of Bergen County, an organization dedicated to volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through effective action and leadership.
Maria is open to connecting on LinkedIn.
This podcast is part of our mission to amplify women who are redefining work, life, and leadership.
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