Joining me for this podcast is Top Startup Coach in the world at the Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Leading Coaches Awards in London, Alisa Cohn.

Alisa is based on NYC coaching startup CEOs, co-founders, other startup executives and board members all over the world. She also coaches senior and emerging leaders from Fortune 500 companies and some of her clients include Venmo, Foursquare, InVision, Etsy, The Wirecutter (sold to The New York Times), Pfizer, Novartis, Dell, and more.

Named as a top global coach, Alisa’s specialties include executive presence, power, influence & charisma, corporate politics, personal mastery, strategic decision-making, developing a strong personal brand, and building social capital.

Alisa shares all of those knowledge and expertise on her book entitled From Start-Up to Grown-Up: Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business. The book provides you with effective and practical ways of maximizing your strengths, defusing your triggers, controlling your self-doubt and building on your motivators.

You can learn more about Alisa and her outstanding works on her website by clicking here.

I hope you enjoy this engaging interview with Alisa Cohn. Thanks and happy listening!

THE BOOK

From Start-Up to Grown-Up gives you the knowledge and experience that executive coach Alisa Cohn has gained from helping companies such as Etsy, Foursquare, InVision and The Wirecutter become headline names. Hence, filled with stories drawn from the author’s experience, this book helps you build a company with a set of core values that everybody lives by and where everyone shares a vision of where the company is going and how to get there.

THE AUTHOR

Alisa Cohn is an executive coach based in New York, NY who helps start-up founders mature into world-class CEOs. She has coached companies such as Etsy, Foursquare, Venmo, InVision, Tory Burch, Mack Weldon and The Wirecutter. She was named the #1 Startup Coach in the world at the 2019 Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Awards in London and one of the Top 30 Global Gurus for Startups of 2020. She was also name one of the top 100 Leadership Speakers by Inc Magazine, and has spoken at places such as Cela (the largest gathering of tech accelerators in the world), the OpenView CEO Summit, and the IBM Digital Summit. She also writes regularly for Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Inc.

 

You may also refer to the transcripts below for the full transciption (not edited) of the interview.

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