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Hayley Darden

Hayley Darden

Business builder & storyteller focused on talent and work

hayleydarden
Austin, Texas
Joined October 2025

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Summary

Talent acquisition and recruiting for mission-driven and high-growth organizations: Hayley began her career on Ashoka's search team, leading efforts to find and vet social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, and later served in talent leadership roles at The Future Project and in studio / startup hiring at Palm Venture Studios. Her background shows deep experience building recruitment processes for mission-oriented organizations and scaling talent practices. faithandleadership+3
Storytelling and content-driven thinking about the future of work: Hayley writes and speaks about rethinking jobs, dynamic staffing, and talent marketplaces (notably via her Medium piece "It's Time to Retire the Idea of Jobs"), and has worked in GTM/content roles at Invisible Technologies where she combined storytelling, CX and organizational design to explain and scale the company's model. medium+2
Public speaker and facilitator who connects personal practice (creativity, dance, listening) to professional purpose: across podcasts, speaking directories, and interviews Hayley frames work in terms of meaning, agency, and facilitation—positioning herself as a facilitator of ideas about how people and organizations do meaningful work. youtube+2

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Dance and movement—discussed as a personal practice tied to creativity and deep listening (appears in podcast interview). youtube

Public speaking / podcast guesting — participates in career and purpose podcasts and speaking engagements about work, purpose, and talent. deviantthinking+1