How the HR team at BEAT81 won back 10 hours a month. And what they're doing with them now.

Growing fast is exciting. Keeping the people operation from breaking under that growth is the harder part. For BEAT81 — 240 people, 15+ new hires every month across five cities — that pressure is real. Chasing approvals. Answering the same onboarding questions. Manually kicking off tasks that should run themselves.
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Sonja Grabner, People & Culture Lead at BEAT81, rebuilt how her team works. Now onboarding runs as a connected workflow inside Leapsome. Her team gets at least 10 hours a month back. And they are spending that time differently. In this session, Sonja joins Ann-Christin Baumann, Director CS Growth at Leapsome, to walk through the full setup — what she built, why, and what changed because of it.
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What you'll take away:

• The time hiding in plain sight. Which repetitive tasks cost HR teams the most capacity, and why the same patterns show up at companies of very different sizes.
• The actual build inside Leapsome. A walkthrough of the Pre- & Onboarding setup at BEAT81: how a start date triggers the full sequence, the decisions behind each step, and what she would do differently now.
• The bigger shift. Not just hours saved — how having HRIS, onboarding, performance reviews, and feedback in one place changed where the people team shows up in the business.

Come with questions. You will leave with something you can actually use.

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