Salley Community Update, June 2024
Next Salley Session on Negotiation and Persuasion, Welcoming Dr. Shonna Waters, Ph.D. as Researcher and Scientific Advisor at Salley and Recap of our last Salley Session, and more!
Hi friends,
Greetings from San Francisco, CA! I got here a few days ago from New York and zoomed straight into work, haha. Speaking of that, we’ll be expanding Salley Sessions here soon to help more emerging leaders and executives based in SF to enhance their leadership abilities. Stay tuned :)
We are almost halfway through 2024. Can you be believe it?! 2024 is shaping up to be our best year yet. Without much further ado, let’s get into a few highlights and what to expect over the coming weeks.
Upcoming Salley Session on Negotiation and Persuasion (June 26)
In today's competitive work environment, the ability to negotiate effectively and persuade with confidence can be the difference between achieving your goals and watching opportunities slip away.
At our next Salley Session on June 26th in NYC, you'll gain invaluable insights and practical techniques along with other emerging leaders from top companies. You'll go through engaging discussions, simulations, and explore proven strategies for navigating complex negotiations, building rapport in order to craft compelling arguments that resonate with your audience.
This session will be led by Jonathan Spivak who’s a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He has 15+ years of experience and has negotiated high stakes deals for their private credit team.
Whether you're closing a high-stakes deal, pitching a game-changing idea, or rallying a team around a shared vision, mastering the art of negotiation and persuasion is an essential skill for any successful leader. RSVP here
Welcoming Dr. Shonna Waters, Ph.D. as Scientific Advisor at Salley
I’m excited to welcome Shonna to the Salley team as we build an Enterprise AI for leadership development based on behavior science and psychology. She’s an acclaimed Industrial-Organizational Psychologist and Behavior Scientist.
Shonna has immense research experience from BetterUp - where she was Vice President for almost 7 years and among the first 50 employees. Prior to that, she was Vice President, Research at the Society for Human Resource Management - the world's largest professional association, representing over 285,000 HR professionals globally.
Also, she was Applied Social Scientist at the U.S. Department of Defense and Senior Scientist at Human Resources Research Organization. In addition, she’s the author of The Practical Guide to HR Analytics (SHRM, 2018) and The Coaching Shift (Routledge, 2022). She received her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (minor in Statistics)
She’s an experienced technology executive with broad expertise in human capital transformation with over two decades of experience as a university professor, coach, operational leader, researcher & scientist.
Recap of our last Salley Session on ‘Adapting to a rapidly changing workplace’
A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of having Jennifer Q. Chen - President and CRO at Connatix lead at a Salley Session.
She currently runs a $100M+ global video and advertising technology business based in New York. Before Connatix, Jenn started her career at Lehman Brothers, went to AppNexus as an early employee, and become the VP/GM of Programmatic at Sizmek by Amazon, where she scaled the global programmatic business over 5x to above $150M, while driving the integrations of several strategic acquisitions.
In addition to her accomplishments in the digital space, Jenn is also the Co-Founder and President of Givology.org, a nonprofit platform which connects donors to students in developing countries.
There was a lot of learning and insights gathered in the room, which was full of emerging leaders and executives from companies like Capital One, Google, Ocelot Bio, Street Smarts VR, etc. Here are few pics from the last Salley Session.
How you can help:
If you know any emerging leaders and executives based in New York or San Francisco, looking to develop their leadership abilities, we’d love an intro!
The ideal Salley customer so far works at a Series B or later company, with a minimum of about 7 years of experience and may be leading a team at their company.
We’ll give you a special gift if you make a great connection!Reach out if you have any ideas on how we can collaborate to empower rising leaders and executives so they can thrive at work :)
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Wishing you an amazing week ahead,
Richard Mensah,
Founder & CEO at Salley
What is Salley?
Salley is the modern way for companies to evaluate and develop the leadership abilities of their rising managers and executives. As the workplace evolves due to automation and AI, Salley helps you and your team to continually develop your leadership abilities so you can increase your impact and thrive.