Ana
Kovacheva
The Human Side of Tech
Tech & Business Analyst, Product Owner and speaker who believes emotional intelligence is the most underrated skill in the industry. Based in Skopje. Speaking everywhere.
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Emotional Intelligence Is a Tech Skill. Start Treating It Like One.
A talk for mixed tech audiences about the career moves nobody teaches you, the teams that actually work, and why the most important architecture in any company isn't the tech stack — it's the relationships.
Built from three Startup Weekend podiums, four industries, and a career that was never supposed to look like this. Real stories. Practical lessons. A talk that leaves people inspired to lead differently.
I never fit the picture of what a tech person looks like.
Software engineer. Consultant. Fintech analyst. Product Owner. Head of Content at Women in Tech Macedonia. Three Startup Weekend podiums with three completely different teams.
Every move looked sideways at the time. Every move turned out to matter.
None of it was planned, none of it was linear and almost none of it was decided by my technical skills alone. What carried me through every transition was something my CS degree never once mentioned: the ability to read people, build trust fast and make others feel like the direction was theirs too.
That's what I speak about. And I've lived every word of it.
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Available for conferences, panels, workshops and events.
Based in Skopje. Speaking everywhere.