A smiling middle-aged man with short dark hair, a beard, and wearing a black shirt, against a neutral background.

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