Speakers: David Johnson, Senior Director, People & Experience
Describe your journey here in one word.
David Johnson: New.
How did you find your way to your current role at Continuous Scale?
David Johnson: I found my way to my current role at continuous scale through having spent over a decade in human resources, specializing in recruiting, which included having met our CEO Sarah. When we both worked for Hipot, we reconnected and since then, had talked about opportunities to help lead the recruiting and hr practice areas which just really excited me. So here I am.
How has your career impacted your personal life in unexpected ways?
David Johnson: I really like this question. How has your career impacted your personal life in unexpected ways? There's one moment that just really jumps out to me. I was at lunch with an engineer that I hired for uh the company I was working for at the time. And he started talking to me about stoic philosophy. Specifically the book, The Obstacle Is The Way By Ryan Holiday. The selling point there is that when life greets you with a challenge, it's not about succeeding. In spite of the challenge, it's finding a way to use the challenge itself to drive things forward. Like how can you use what seems difficult to your advantage? That was just transformative for me. And once I really got that, it impacted every area of my life.
How has your journey at Continuous Scale evolved?
David Johnson: Well, I'm pretty new so I haven't had a whole lot of time for my journey to evolve. But I'd say that I really enjoyed starting out by having Sarah suggest to me, I should read the book Lability and really getting that sense for her passion for having just an amazing complete product experience, amazing customer and employee experience. That was just a really great way to start getting that sense of passion. And then from there, it's just learning all the things, digesting new information, orienting myself, uh looking for opportunities to improve upon things and just meet great people.
What advice would you give someone looking to make a meaningful impact here?
David Johnson: Identify and be clear about a problem that you want to solve. Do the necessary research, figure out who's impacted, be confident, make your pitch.
