Jason Gore, MBA, MSC
Jason Gore is the CEO of Neuberg Gore where he coaches CEOs of fast-growth startups and venture capital investors. He has been coaching business leaders for over 30 years and has deep expertise in leadership, decision-making, negotiations, accountability, and conflict resolution--this includes addressing, cofounder conflict, board issues, executive collaboration, underperformance, etc.
Jason regularly pushes his own limits and believes that the greatest learning happens at the edge. He is a professional rafting guide, world-ranked competitor paraglider, rescue team leader, improv comedian, and pilot–he rebuilt an open-cockpit, wooden aircraft. He also studies plant medicines in Colombia.
Jason has a unique background in business, leadership, and psychology. Based on his research, he created a toolset for helping leaders identify their blindspots and wrote survival guides for the most challenging conversations that leaders face. He gives all of these away for free.
Jason earned a BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, and a Master Somatic Coach certification from the Strozzi Institute. He also taught Organizational Psychology at Sofia University (ITP) and Negotiations at Harvard Law School.
STARTUP CEOS - Coached the CEO at the following startups:
AI & Frontier Tech
OpenAI
Darwin AI
Heart Aerospace
Creyon Bio
Deep Genomics
Skyryse
Luzia
Epsilon3
Lavender
Skycatch
DataSift
Orbital Insight
Apteligent
Spredfast (Khoros)
Sirona Medical
Advanced Thin Films
Spiritus
Exia Labs
Enterprise Tech
Odaseva
Flowroute
ApolloGraph QL
Everspin
PowerCatalyst
Gruntwork¹
Marketplace
Kickstarter
Fundera
Halo Investing
Building Connected
SeatGeek
Teespring
TripAdvisor*
Creative Market
Earnest
Kojo (Agora)
Ampere
Consumer
Sonder
Casper Mattresses
Harry’s*
Homejoy*
Zirtual
WineAccess
The Reformation
SOLS
Bus.com
KOR
Consumer Tech/Gaming
VSCO
Prodigy Games
UpGrad
Saturn Technologies
Beyond Games
Maestro Conference
Run the World
Arcadia.tv
VCs/Investors*
A16Z
Khosla
Lerer Hippeau
FirstMark
Coatue
Inovia
Blank Ventures
NVP
IVP
Consumer Health
Oscar Health²
Ophelia
The CUSP
Mindbloom
Policy Genius*
Lark Health
¹Cofounder ²Senior Executive
CORPORATE - Worked with leaders at the following companies:
Aerospace
NASA
U.S. Air Force
Army & Air Force Exch
Bombardier
Technology
Cisco
IBM
Citrix
Blackboard
Xerox
Manufacturing
Honda
ASML
Ford
Georgia Pacific
Granite Construction
EagleBurgmann
Financial
CapitalOne
Federal Reserve Board
Mastercard
Merrill Lynch
Standard & Poor’s
Charles Schwab
SwissRe
RenaissanceRe
Media
Disney
ABC
Business Week
McGraw Hill
Aviation Week
Nuclear Power Plants
Entergy Nuclear
Phoenix Nuclear
Pharma
Novartis
Genentech
MedImmune
Merck
Consumer Retail
Starbucks
North Face
REI
GAP
Banana Republic
Lowe’s
Mountain Hardware
Wrangler
Lee Jeans
Target
Energy
ExxonMobil (Qatar)
Chevron
Mexico Inst. of Petrol
Consulting Firms
McKinsey
Deloitte
IBM
AMS
Telecom
AT&T
U.S. West
BellSouth
Qualcomm
QuantumShift
Healthcare
Cigna
Kaiser Permanente
U.S. Military Hospitals
Social Change
Burning Man
Integral Center
Assoc. Of Women MBAs
Awe to Action Research Team
Clinton Foundation
ACADEMIC TEACHING
Harvard Law School & Negotiation Project, 2007, Negotiations TA, Led leadership programs in 85+ cities worldwide.
Sofia Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2007, Organizational Psych, Adjunc
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, 2000, Business Communications, GSI
USBC Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences: Research Affiliate in Consciousness, Leadership and Meta-Awareness
EDUCATION
UC Santa Barbara, Psych, 2025, Aff. Reasearcher in Leadership & Human Potential
University of Pennsylvania, BA Psychology, 1993, Persuasion and Social Psychology, Summa Cum Laude
U.C. Berkeley, Haas School of Business, MBA, 2001
• Entrepreneurship & Organizational Behavior
• Co-founded the Berkeley Business Plan Competition
Strozzi Institute, 2001-2018, Master Somatic Coach Certification
SPEECH TOPICS
• Startup Leadership
• Delegation, Negative Feedback & Holding People Accountable
• Four Common Pitfalls in Challenging Conversations
• Negotiations
• Building & Maintaining Startup Cultures
PASSIONS
• Competitive XC paraglider (100th in the US, 1100th worldwide).
• Pilot: Single-engine fixed wing, taildraggers, and sailplanes
• Professional whitewater rafting guide: rescue and medical team leader
• High performance driving (M3)
• Teach partner dance
• Teach and perform improvisational comedy
• Play piano and flute
• Lakota vision quests, sweat lodges, and Sun Dance
• Traveled or worked in 95+ countries