Kelley Steven-Weiss

Kelley Steven-Waiss is a highly influential Silicon Valley technology executive, human resources strategist, artificial intelligence entrepreneur, and award-winning author whose leadership has radically transformed corporate talent optimization and the mentorship framework for venture-backed female founders. Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Arizona, Steven-Waiss accumulated over thirty years of executive enterprise management, corporate communications, and change-management consulting experience, which included a powerful thirteen-year tenure serving as a Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for multiple high-growth technology corporations like Extreme Networks and HERE Technologies. Observing massive corporate friction regarding workforce allocation, she engineered a profound professional pivot into tech entrepreneurship by founding Hitch Works Inc., a pioneering cloud-based internal talent mobility platform that utilized advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to map project opportunities directly to employee skill portfolios. Following the successful strategic acquisition of Hitch by the enterprise cloud giant ServiceNow in 2022, she assumed the critical corporate mantles of Vice President of Workforce Innovation Products and subsequently Chief Transformation Officer at ServiceNow, orchestrating large-scale digital architectures and helping double its workflow business segment to over $1 billion in revenue. An exceptional, sought-after public speaker and organizational thought leader, she solidified her literary status by co-authoring The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity, before launching her award-winning second work, Valley Girls: Lessons From Female Founders in the Silicon Valley and Beyond, which won the prestigious 2025 Business Book Award for Business Journey. Serving as a corporate board director for FormFactor Inc. and Chair of the Advisory Board for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, Steven-Waiss transitioned in early 2026 to launch Novaworks Inc. as CEO and Co-Founder, where she aggressively leads the development of next-generation computational workforce productivity frameworks.