Develop Remarkable Leaders
The Big Think+ Book Club is excited to welcome renowned executive leadership coach, Alisa Cohn, for a virtual discussion on how to develop remarkable leaders. Alisa is the author of From Start-up to Grown-up: Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business and will share insights from both her book and her experience advising executives at start-ups (such as Venmo, Etsy, Draft Kings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch) and Fortune 500 companies (including Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein and The New York Times.)
This event will focus on how to build a leadership pipeline at your organization. We’ll focus on how leaders at your organization can:
- Recognize their own strengths and weaknesses
- Collect 360 feedback
- Deal with imposter syndrome
- Execute on successful delegation
- Become an effective coach
- Conduct effective performance reviews
- Run great meetings
- Lead in a virtual or hybrid environment
Author bio:
Alisa Cohn is an Executive Coach who has worked with C-suite executives at prominent startups (such as Venmo, Etsy, Draft Kings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch) and Fortune 500 companies (including Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein and The New York Times.) She is the author From Start-up to Grown-up, and the creator and host of a podcast of the same name. A frequent keynoter, Inc. Magazine named Alisa one of the top 100 leadership speakers, and she was named the Top Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards and the #1 Global Guru for Startups. She is the executive coach for Cornell’s New York City tech incubator, and she has coached leaders from around the world, including the first female minister of the transition state of Afghanistan and the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. She has guest lectured at Harvard, Cornell, The Naval War College and Henley Business School. Her articles have appeared in HBR, Inc, and Forbes, and she’s been featured as an expert on BBC World News, Bloomberg TV, and in the NY Times and Wall Street Journal.