Making Your First Hire

​Scaling your team beyond a trusted inner circle can be daunting. Learn a few simple steps to hiring and retaining an excellent and representative leadership team and why this should be your number one priority.

​Specifically, you will learn:

• ​The Foundations: Why establishing culture, process, and assessment criteria will be time well spent

• ​Culture and values: How to think through and commit your values to paper.

• ​Recruitment Process:  How to create an inclusive role description to source against

• ​Assessment: Using your values to guide questions and interview style

• ​Prepare for the unexpected: You are dealing with people not products!

​About the speaker

​Felicity started her career in London and has lived and worked in New York since 2008. Her personal and family experience has built a deep appreciation for the importance of representative leadership and a commitment to finding great talent between the lines.

​After building her search roots on the agency side, Felicity spent some time in-house with Bloomberg and then Audible, helping them build a global inclusive recruiting platform. In her most recent role Felicity served as President for a diversity centric search firm launching their US business… a catalyst in the dream to create TheFind!

​In addition to her corporate role, Felicity is a published author, serves on the Board of WBC, and is a member of Luminary NYC. She lives with her husband and two children in Westchester, NY. She loves running, Cross Fit, Peloton, watching her kid's sports leagues. She can be found most mornings getting up to speed with the latest Ossining news at First Village Coffee.