Patty McCord
Former Netflix talent chief, consultant
Patty McCord was chief talent officer at Netflix and now consults on how companies work. She wrote Powerful, drawing on her time there.
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American Born in California, United States
About Patty McCord
Patty McCord spent about fourteen years at Netflix, which she joined in 1998 and where she served as chief talent officer. She came to the company through Reed Hastings, whom she had worked with at Pure Software. At Netflix she experimented with new ways of working, including doing away with performance reviews. Her time there ended in 2012, and she later wrote Powerful, published in 2018. McCord now advises large corporations and small start-ups, and she speaks to business audiences about rethinking how companies work.