Executive coach, leadership trainer, speakerAcademic Teaching
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Negotiations at Harvard Law School
(TA, 2007)
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Organizational Psychology at the Sofia Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
(Adjunct faculty, 2007)
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Business Communications at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
(Graduate Student Instructor, 2000)
Education
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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 Coaching Certification
Partial Client List
Worked with leaders at the following companies:
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Startup CEOs
- Casper Mattresses
- Kickstarter
- Sonder
- VSCO
- Darwin AI
- ApolloGraph QL
- Deep Genomics
- Orbital Insight
- Fundera
- Skyryse
- Building Connected
- Everspin
- Bus.com
- UpGrad
- Creative Market
- DataSift
- Teespring
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Startup CEOs (continued)
- Flowroute
- The Reformation
- Skycatch
- SOLS
- Spredfast
- Maestro Conference
- WineAccess
- Apteligent
- Zirtual
Startup Execs
- Earnest
- Oscar Health
- TripAdvisor
- Harry’s
- Homejoy
- Warby Parker
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VCs/PEs
- A16Z
- Khosla
- Lerer Hippeau
- FirstMark
- Coatue
- Inovia
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Aerospace
- NASA
- U.S. Air Force
- Army & Air Force Exchange
- Bombardier
Social Change
- Burning Man (BRC)
- Integral Center
- Assoc. of Women MBAs
- Clinton Foundation
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Consulting Firms
- McKinsey
- Deloitte
- IBM
Retail, Consumer
- Starbuck’s
- North Face
- REI
- GAP
- Banana Republic
- Lowe’s
- Mountain Hardware
- Wrangler
- Lee Jeans
- Target
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Media
- Disney
- ABC
- Business Week
- McGraw Hill
- Aviation Week
Pharma, Healthcare
- Cigna
- Genentech
- MedImmune
- Merck
- Kaiser Permanente
- U.S. Military Hospitals
- Novartis
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Nuclear Power Plants
- Entergy Nuclear
- Phoenix Nuclear
Energy
- ExxonMobil (Qatar)
- Chevron
- Mexico Inst. of Petrol.
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Telecom
- AT&T
- U.S. West
- BellSouth
- Qualcomm
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Financial
- Federal Reserve Board
- CapitalOne
- Mastercard
- Merrill Lynch
- Standard & Poor’s
- Charles Schwab
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Manufacturing
- Honda
- Ford
- ASML
- Georgia Pacific
- EagleBurgmann
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Technology
- Cisco
- IBM
- Citrix
- Xerox
Speech Topics
- Startup Leadership
- Four Keys to Effective Debate, Influence & Problem-Solving
- Tough Conversations
- Effective Meetings & Decision Making
- Delegation, Giving Negative Feedback & Managing People Out
- Negotiations
- Building & Maintaining Startup Cultures
Passions
- Accomplished aviator: paragliding, antique airplanes, sailplanes, etc.
- Professional whitewater rafting guide. Rescue and medical team leader.
- High performance driving (Subaru WRX)
- Teach partner dance
- Teach and perform improvisational comedy
- Play piano and flute
- Lakota vision quests, sweat lodges, and Sun Dance
- Travelled or worked in 80+ countries