Alisa Cohn
New York, USA
Executive coach to founders and C-suite leaders; executive coach, Cornell's NYC tech incubator
Executive coach working with C-suite executives at startups and Fortune 500 companies, and executive coach for Cornell's New York City tech incubator. Thinkers50 records that she has coached political and social leaders including the first female minister of Afghanistan, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, and Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation. She has guest lectured at Harvard, Cornell, the Naval War College and Henley Business School.
Why this placement
From Start-Up to Grown-Up (Kogan Page, 2021) is a genuinely operable manual for founder-CEOs rather than a book about the author — specific, transferable and drawn from practice, which is three of the six thought-leadership markers.
Her clientele reaches an unusually senior political tier, and guest lecturing across four institutions is teaching in public in the most literal sense.
Editorial notes and exclusions
- The widely-repeated "#1 Startup Coach in the World, Thinkers50 2019" title could not be confirmed on any Thinkers50 page. She was not an award recipient in 2019, 2021 or 2023. Thinkers50's own content on her is a Coaches50 listing and a 2021 award longlist entry. The title most likely derives from the separate Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards, whose site publishes no methodology, jury or winners list.
- Her three book awards are paid-entry submission competitions — real and independently administered, but not juried literary honours.
- One book, which under a publication-weighted rubric is the constraint on her placement. Her degrees name no issuing institution.
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