Jessica Qaasim - Head of Industry, Google Marketing

Big careers, and big lives, are rarely built in one defining moment. More often, they’re built through a thousand smaller ones: taking the chance, speaking up, staying curious, choosing growth over comfort and occasionally just shooting your shot.

Join us for a Suite Escape Lunch Series with Jessica Qaasim, Head of Industry at Google Marketing, for a conversation about the choices, experiences and ideas that have shaped both her life and her career.

Jessica’s story began on the South Side of Chicago and has taken her around the world and to the forefront of one of the most transformative industries of our time. Along the way, she has developed her own philosophy around momentum, getting one percent better each day, moving with agility and influence, making time for original thinking, and recognizing that the tiny decisions we make along the way often become the big story.

We’ll talk about the personal side of her journey, too: finding belonging, navigating change, taking risks, building confidence and figuring out what growth looks like when your life and career don’t necessarily follow a straight line.

And then we’ll turn to something Jessica is thinking deeply about right now: how we grow and create in the age of AI.

AI is giving us extraordinary new ways to work faster, create more and scale ideas. But Jessica makes a compelling case that as AI becomes ubiquitous, originality becomes even more valuable. Technology can help us produce more, but creativity, judgment, curiosity and a point of view are what make any of it matter.

So how do we take advantage of everything AI can do without handing over the very things that make our work, and our lives, interesting?

It’s a conversation about momentum, creativity, technology, taking chances and staying distinctly human in a world moving very quickly.

And perhaps a little inspiration to shoot your own shot.

Come as you are. Leave inspired.