Catherine Hicks

Cat Hicks is a psychologist for software teams, a research architect and defender of the mismeasured. Cat is the founder and principal scientist at Catharsis Consulting, a scientific consultancy that helps engineering organizations transform with human-centered evidence strategies. She is the author of the Developer Thriving framework, the AI Skill Threat framework, and many ambitious projects breaking new ground in an open science for developers, surfacing industry-changing empirical evidence to help organizations and individuals achieve sustainable, resilient innovation in technology and create more wellbeing for technologists. 

Cat holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Experimental Psychology from UC San Diego, serves on the Advisory Council of the University of San Diego Center for Digital Civil Society, and is the author of a forthcoming book on the psychology of software teams.

I'm a data science educator and community builder who wants to help you cultivate a community of practice for yourself. I talk a lot about the benefits of making genuine human connections, the power of vulnerability, and why we all benefit when we show up as our whole selves. I'm also the host of the Data Humans podcast where my motto is: data science is not one thing.

I love connecting people across the data science community to share what they're accomplishing with data and help others do the same through community discussions, industry meetups, and more.