About Spotted Owl
Spotted Owl was founded by Chris Winton, a career Chief HR Executive who spent 29 years leading talent strategy for some of the world's largest companies, and who has coached and mentored professionals through career transitions for just as long.
The person who implemented the system that filtered you out is now building what replaces it.
As Chief HR Executive at FedEx, Tesla, and Comcast, leading talent strategy for over 500,000 people, he implemented Applicant Tracking Systems globally. He configured the filters. He set the parameters. He watched brilliant, capable people disappear into the pile before a human ever saw their name.
Not because they weren't qualified.
Because they weren't legible to a system that was never designed to find them.
He also spent those 29 years identifying the people who never needed the system: the top performers who were called first, trusted most, and promoted before any job was posted. Their behavioral patterns are encoded in Athena's coaching framework. That's why he's building Spotted Owl.
Chris is the author of C4 Leadership, a book on leadership he's relaunching with a new focus on career transitions. He has spent his career coaching and mentoring people through exactly those moments, and Spotted Owl puts that coaching within everyone's reach.
Shaped by 29 years inside the rooms where careers get decided. Powered by Athena AI. Grounded in C4 Leadership.