As the market continues to spiral with a looming recession, job seekers find themselves with lots of uncertainty. Despite what you may feel, startups are still hiring like crazy! Join HigherPeople’s CEO, Katy Stover, and Scott Asai, a professional coach and speaker helping managers become leaders through soft skills, for an exclusive, small group roundtable and AMA session where we’ll host a thoughtful conversation around navigating a career move for mid- to senior-level tech professionals.
Katy and Scott will answer questions about what they’re seeing in the market in terms of compensation, evaluation tests, trends, and more. You’ll also have the ability to get advice from peers, mentors and fellow seekers. Come ready with all your hot questions!
***Hiring managers + recruiters are welcome to join!
About the Speakers:
Scott Asai, Keynote Speaker & Coach of scottasai.com
Scott Asai is a professional speaker specializing in teaching soft skills. He focuses on improving communication, leadership and emotional intelligence. Scott’s brief, conversational and practical style makes it easy for audiences to implement new strategies. His experience includes: B.A in Psychology, M.A. in Organizational Leadership, Certified Professional Coach, Certified Strengths Coach (Clifton Strengths) and TEDx Speaker. In his free time, Scott enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids, working out and playing sports.
Katy Stover, Founder & CEO of HigherPeople
Katy is a learner, teacher, problem solver, hustler, networker, and entrepreneur. She started her career teaching Geometry in Washington D.C. as a Teach for America Corps Member. After seeing the inequities in education, she became passionate about teaching students and adults real world skills necessary for the workforce. She worked at Pearson and then General Assembly running massive educational programs.
While at GA, she partnered with Fortune 500 companies, including Booz Allen, Bloomberg, Capital One, The Department of Defense, and Disney, to up-skill and re-skill their teams. After realizing that GA was only solving one piece of the talent puzzle, she sought to learn more about recruiting. She then spent two years learning the ins and outs of recruiting at an executive search firm. Seeing a need to help companies in a 360 fashion, Katy founded Higher People to help companies recruit, re-skill, and retain top talent.
When she’s not working, she’s rock climbing, hiking with her dogs Johnny Cash & Bleu, re-exploring LA, listening to live music, and working on her "adulting skills."