About Us
Olivia
Fox Cabane
Olivia Fox Cabane has lectured on leadership, innovation, and charisma at Harvard, Yale, MIT and the United Nations.
She is the former Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford University’s startup accelerator, StartX, and now serves as executive coach and keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies.
Olivia’s first book, The Charisma Myth, published by Penguin Random House, went into second printing before it even launched; her books have been translated into 32 languages, including Mongolian.
Previously a columnist for Forbes and The Huffington Post, Olivia has been featured in media such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
In her pro bono work as cofounder of KindEarth.Tech, she became known for her industry landscapes mapping out food technology’s most innovative companies for climate and environmental sustainability and impact investing.
Olivia is fluent in four languages and was the youngest person ever to have been appointed Foreign Trade Advisor to the French government.
“I can’t even explain how great Olivia was - this training was different from anything I’ve ever experienced! Time flew by, we were having so much fun. And everything made sense. More, please!”
Judah Pollack
Judah Pollack is the coauthor of The Chaos Imperative and The Net And The Butterfly. Formerly a faculty member of Stanford’s StartX enterprise accelerator, he is now a speaker, consultant and executive coach for Fortune 500 companies.
His consulting clients range from Airbnb, Google, JPMorgan Chase to the US Army Special Forces and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
As expert on the neuroscience of innovation, Judah has worked with the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC), in which capacity his work was praised by then-DARPA head Regina Dugan, and spent three years setting up Airbnb’s innovation lab.
Judah has guest lectured at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, the Army’s Senior Leadership Course for the General Staff, The University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies.
As an executive coach Judah has worked with unicorn start-up founders, army generals, innovation leaders, Fortune 100 Executives and social enterprise founders. He is particularly known for his work on the impact of the impostor syndrome and the inner critic on innovation potential, which was detailed in his latest book, The Net and The Butterfly, published by Penguin.
As a young political writer, he was declared writer of the year by the New Hampshire Press Association for his coverage of the presidential primary. In his spare time, Judah has been a sous-chef, a screenwriter, and a master of underground dance parties.
“Working with Judah had a profound effect on me and my team when I was the Commanding General of the U.S. Army’s First Armored Division. He designed and facilitated a program which allowed me and my senior level leaders to get to know ourselves and each other. We learned things about each other that might normally have taken years to learn. Judah helped transform our senior level leadership group into a high performing team. He is awesome!”