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$40B Canva CHRO: How Canva Actually Builds Culture & Why they open source their Playbooks!

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TruthWorks
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Jul 28, 2026
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Summary

What does it actually take to build the people function at a company that went from a design tool to a global platform of 5,500 people? Jennie Rogerson, Chief People Officer at Canva, joins Jessica Neal and co-host Peter Clarke on Truth Works for a conversation about culture as an operating system, not a perk. Jennie's path into the role is one of the more unlikely ones in tech. She came up through hospitality, running restaurant floors where 220 covers a night meant 220 individual experien...