Leadership Interviews: Strategies for Directors, VPs & Execs

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Leadership Interviews: Strategies for Directors, VPs & Execs

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

76 students

What you'll learn

Nailing Your Executive Narrative:

Tell stories that resonate deeply with boards, CEOs, and senior hiring panels—demonstrating vision, results, and impact.

Handling High-Stakes Questions:

Navigate tough executive-level questions about leadership style, strategic decisions, failures, & your future visions.

Influencing at the Highest Level:

Master subtle, powerful communication techniques to position yourself as an experienced candidate & indispensable leader

Why this topic matters

Executive-level interviews aren't just about experience—they're about demonstrating strategic clarity, exceptional judgment, & executive presence under intense scrutiny. This session equips you with sophisticated storytelling & high-impact strategies tailored for senior leaders, ensuring that when the spotlight hits, you'll decisively show why you're the executive they can't afford to pass up.

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Helping people reach the height of their ambition.

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Sherveen brings unique insight from all sides of the hiring equation, having built AI-powered recruiting technology and led product development at major startups like Toptal and Stella.

For a majority of his career, he's also been uniquely focused on the candidate side of the equation. He previously founded JobHero, a job search tracker with 100k+ enthusiastic users, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency.

Through Free Agency (backed by prominent investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant, Kygo), he now helps job seekers navigate the modern hiring landscape to land top of market roles. Since 2019, clients of Free Agency have won over $400M in job offers and landed at top companies like OpenAI, Amazon, American Express, Stripe, YouTube, Netflix, and hundreds more.

He has been a product leader at talent marketplaces like Toptal, AI hiring platforms like Stella, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency (backed by investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Resolute Ventures, Kevin Durant, Kygo, and executives + founders from companies like Twitter, MasterClass, and Snapchat).

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