Jason Gore

Academic Teaching

• Negotiations at Harvard Law School

  (TA, 2007)

• Organizational Psychology at the Sofia Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

  (Adjunct faculty, 2007)

• Business Communications at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

  (Graduate Student Instructor, 2000)

Education

• 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, 2001-2008

  
  Somatic Coaching Certification

Partial Client List

Worked with leaders at the following companies:

• Startups

  • Casper Mattresses
  • Kickstarter
  • Sonder
  • VSCO
  • Orbital Insight
  • Fundera
  • Skyryse
  • Building Connected
  • Darwin AI
  • Everspin
  • Bus.com
  • UpGrad
  • Creative Market
  • DataSift
  • Teespring
  • Apteligent
  • Beyond Games

• Startups (continued)

  • Flowroute
  • The Reformation
  • Skycatch
  • SOLS
  • Spredfast
  • Maestro Conference
  • WineAccess
  • The CUSP
  • Zirtual
  •  

  • Startup Execs

  • Earnest
  • Oscar Health
  • TripAdvisor
  • Harry’s
  • Homejoy
  • Warby Parker

• VCs/PEs

  • A16Z
  • Khosla
  • Lerer Hippeau
  • FirstMark
  • Coatue

• Aerospace

  • NASA
  • U.S. Air Force
  • Army & Air Force Exchange
  • Bombardier
  •   

  • Social Change

  • Burning Man (BRC)
  • Integral Center
  • Assoc. of Women MBAs
  • Clinton Foundation

• Consulting Firms

  • McKinsey
  • Deloitte
  • IBM
  •  

  • Retail, Consumer

  • Starbuck’s
  • North Face
  • REI
  • GAP
  • Banana Republic
  • Lowe’s
  • Mountain Hardware
  • Wrangler
  • Lee Jeans
  • Target

• Media

  • Disney
  • ABC
  • Business Week
  • McGraw Hill
  • Aviation Week
  •  

  • Pharma, Healthcare

  • Cigna
  • Genentech
  • MedImmune
  • Merck
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • U.S. Military Hospitals
  • Novartis

• Nuclear Power Plants

  • Entergy Nuclear
  • Phoenix Nuclear
  •   

  • Energy

  • ExxonMobil (Qatar)
  • Chevron
  • Mexico Inst. of Petrol.

• Telecom

  • AT&T
  • U.S. West
  • BellSouth
  • Qualcomm

• Financial

  • Federal Reserve Board
  • CapitalOne
  • Mastercard
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Standard & Poor’s
  • Charles Schwab

• Manufacturing

  • Honda
  • Ford
  • ASML
  • Georgia Pacific
  • EagleBurgmann

• Technology

  • Cisco
  • IBM
  • Citrix
  • Xerox

• Manufacturing

  • Honda
  • Ford
  • ASML
  • Georgia Pacific
  • Eagle Burgmann

Speech Topics

• Startup Leadership: How do Great Leaders Lead?
• 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: Fly antique airplanes & aerobatics. Licensed in skydiving, hang gliding, paragliding, and gliders
• 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