Nivia Henry
Nivia is a technologist with over 20 years of engineering and leadership experience.
Nivia is a technologist with over 20 years of engineering and leadership experience.
Her career path has included nearly every role in tech; but her true passion is inspiring people to do their best work.
These days Nivia applies her talents as the Defiantly Sparkly Director of Engineering for Netflix’s Growth Product Experiences; the organization that enables Netflix’s multibillion dollar commerce and subscription business. Prior to that she spent 8 years at Spotify, building ads and listener experiences.
Nivia gives back to the tech community by speaking at, chairing and attending tech conferences.
Her hobbies include: mentoring Black engineering leaders; reading; and relaxing on her farm with her hubby Andre and their feline overlord Zuko.
Living in the future: How leading leaders is a lot like time travel
In this intimate conversation, Nivia intends to share four dimensions critical to growing the type of leaders who can Observe—Orient—Decide and ultimately Act (OODA) with the intelligence and integrity necessary to succeed.
Cultivating effective cross-functional relationships
In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering departments can form strong relationships with other teams.
