Episode #18
Steven Holt: Keeping the Human Experience at the Center
Empathy and business results pull in the same direction, and Steven Holt has spent his career proving it. Steven is a Human Resources Business Partner at Apple whose path ran through Google DeepMind, Tesla, Archer Aviation and Uber, and started with a year each in Ukraine and Moldova at 18. He lost his father to brain cancer at five, grew up in a single parent home of four kids, and now works alongside AI while guarding what makes people human. He talks with Ashley Russo about all of it. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome to Ask Ashley 00:59 Steven's start in Ukraine and Moldova 02:23 A stroke of luck: seven and a half years at Google 04:19 Tesla, Archer Aviation, Uber, and joining Apple 05:38 Why move through so many companies 07:23 Growing up in the Valley in a single parent home 10:16 Holding empathy alongside revenue goals 13:11 Using AI without losing your own thinking 17:45 Keeping the employee experience real 20:26 Team Human and the human experience 23:40 Staying grounded through hard things 27:32 What he would say to his younger self You can follow Steven Holt here: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-j-holt/
