Cat Hicks, PhD
Psychology of Software Teams | Storyteller

Hi. I'm a psychologist studying software teams, a research architect, an evidence designer, and an empirical interventionist.
I'm the VP of Research Insights for Pluralsight, where I founded the Developer Success Lab, an empirical research lab creating open science for developers and their teams. We use the power of generous, transparent, radically brave science to transform organizational practice for Pluralsight, our clients, and the industry at large, delivering a high velocity research portfolio that ranges from science publications to toolkits and white papers.
I'm the founder and prinicipal of Catharsis Consulting, an evidence science consultancy that creates evidence strategies to help protect interesting, impactful work. We've helped engineering organizations design better hiring, helped nonprofits create studies that win grants, and helped leaders set and achieve ambitious goals for measurable, human-focused behavior change in their orgs.