# Jackie Gessner, JD Finish Line Vice President of Talent Management and HR Compliance

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freedom-forum-with-angela-b-freeman-4360668/jackie-gessner-jd-finish-line-vice-president-of-talent-management-and-hr-compliance
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freedom-forum-with-angela-b-freeman-4360668/jackie-gessner-jd-finish-line-vice-president-of-talent-management-and-hr-compliance.md
Podcast: [The Freedom Forum with Angela B. Freeman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freedom-forum-with-angela-b-freeman-4360668)
Published: 2025-12-31T06:05:00+00:00
Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ANAIA1431279536.mp3
Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ANAIA1431279536.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-freedom-forum-with-angela-b-freeman-4360668/episodes/jackie-gessner-jd-finish-line-vice-president-of-talent-management-and-hr-compliance
Duration seconds: 5503

## Resource

JD Finish Line Vice President of Talent Management and HR Compliance, Jackie Gessner, joins host Angela B. Freeman on The Freedom Forum to share her career journey from Fort Wayne to Purdue, the Indiana Statehouse and IU McKinney School of Law. Gessner reflects on early pivots, retaking the LSAT, lessons from private practice at Barnes & Thornburg and why people matter when choosing a workplace. She explains her transition from law firm life to in-house leadership, managing teams across HR and talent, and supporting employees through leave, life events and change. The conversation also explores women in law, authentic leadership and how Indiana employers can retain talent by promoting from within and building strong workplace culture.

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-freedom-forum-with-angela-b-freeman-4360668/episodes/jackie-gessner-jd-finish-line-vice-president-of-talent-management-and-hr-compliance/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freedom-forum-with-angela-b-freeman-4360668/jackie-gessner-jd-finish-line-vice-president-of-talent-management-and-hr-compliance.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.