Alisa Cohn

Named the Top Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards in London, Alisa Cohn has been helping coaching startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. A one-time startup CFO, Strategy Consultant, and current Angel Investor/Advisor, she was named a Top 30 “Global Guru” and has worked with startups such as Venmo, Etsy, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch. She has also coached CEOs and C-Suite executives at enterprise clients such as  Dell, Hitachi, Sony, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Calvin Klein.

Alisa is a sought-after speaker and has delivered keynote speeches at events for companies such as IBM, PwC, Dell, Standard Chartered Bank, and Citi. Inc. Magazine named Alisa one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers. 

Alisa is a Guest Lecturer at Harvard and Cornell Universities, Henley Business School and the Naval War College. Marshall Goldsmith selected Alisa as one of his Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches – a gathering of the top coaches in the world. 

She is the Executive Coach for Runway – the incubator at Cornell NYC Tech that helps post-docs commercialize their technology and build companies. She serves on the board of the Cornell Advisory Council. She has coached public and political figures including the former Supreme Court Chief Justice of Sri Lanka and the first female minister in the transitional government of Afghanistan.

Her articles have appeared in HBR, Forbes, and Inc. Magazine. She has also been featured as an Expert on Bloomberg TV, the BBC World News and in the New York Times. A recovering CPA, she is also a Broadway Investor in productions which have won 2 Tony Awards and is prone to burst into song at the slightest provocation.