Episode 5: Cat Hicks, VP of Research Insights at Pluralsight

In this episode of Masters of Tech, our host Talha Masood, CTO of Remotebase, will chat with Dr. Cat Hicks, VP of Research Insights at Pluralsight. 💫

As the VP of Research Insights and the Director of the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight Flow, Cat Hicks studies the science of how innovative developer teams learn and thrive. Cat is a social science leader in tech with expertise in innovation, engineering transformation, empirical intervention, and evidence science. She has published peer-reviewed research in top academic venues such as ACM and Developmental Science. Her research has played a vital role in multi-organizational partnerships between world-class organizations like Google, Duke University, Vanguard, UC San Diego CSE, Stanford University, Coursera, and others.

She holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Experimental Psychology from UC San Diego and was an inaugural Fellow in the UC San Diego Design Lab. Cat serves her local community on the Advisory Council of the University of San Diego Center for Digital Civil Society, as a research affiliate in STEM education research at UC San Diego, and as an advocate for increasing education access.

This will be an excellent opportunity to learn and get valuable insights from people with different perspectives, values and leadership styles.

Want to learn more about Developer Thriving? Join Cat Hicks, Ph.D. and the Developer Success Lab researchers as they converse with Shay McDonough, Engineering Manager @ ClearCompany Talent Management Software about common challenges and success stories in leading engineering teams. Register here for the webinar!