Alisa Cohn

Alisa Cohn is an Executive Coach who has worked with C-suite executives at prominent startups such as Venmo, Etsy, DraftKings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch, as well as Fortune 500 companies like Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein, and Hitachi. She is the author of From Start-up to Grown-up, which won the 2022 Independent Press Award and the American Book Fest 2023 Best Book Award for Entrepreneurship. Alisa is also the creator and host of a podcast by the same name, offering insights and tools for founders and leaders navigating the journey of scaling their leadership.

Named one of the Top 50 Coaches in the world by Thinkers50, Alisa has been ranked globally as the #1 Global Guru for the past four years by the Global Gurus Research Organization. A sought-after speaker, she was named one of the top 100 leadership speakers by Inc. and has keynoted events for companies like IBM, PwC, Dell, and Citi. Alisa is the executive coach for Runway, the incubator at Cornell’s New York City campus.

She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Inc., and has been featured as an expert on BBC World News, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, Alisa is an angel investor and a Broadway investor.