Nicky Garcea is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Cappfinity. Nicky is a chartered occupational psychologist and has worked for the last 20 years in the field of skills and strengths identification, recruitment and development. She is an unapologetic advocate for underrepresented early career talent. Over the last two decades, along with the Cappfinity team she has developed on and offline skills products and solutions that have helped to reduce the use of academic criteria, experience and biased approaches to recruitment and development. Nicky and her team have led the market to create and deliver immersive, authentic skills solutions that have been adopted by the likes of Accenture, EY, Expedia, HSBC, Latham and Watkins, Nokia and the United Nations. Nicky splits her time between the UK and US allowing her to offer a global perspective on the implementation and delivery of talent acquisition and management solutions. Nicky was featured on TAtech’s list of 100 Most Influential Talent Acquisition (TA) Thought Leaders. Nicky is a frequent keynote, panelist and contributor to conference agendas. Nicky co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work and has been featured in Fast Companies, Forbes, Protocol, HR.com, Recruiter, and other global business publications.
