Extraordinary Founders Forum

with Dr. Moshe Ovadia


Being a founder is one of the loneliest and most demanding jobs out there. Fortunately, you don’t have to do it alone.

Join a curated group of passionate, caring founders to level up your leadership game through facilitated peer support, targeted coaching, and skill development. Inspired by the iconic Stanford GSB course Interpersonal Dynamics, this safe container will include supportive peer feedback, helping you master the interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness required of world-class leaders. We’ll also tackle your practical challenges scaling a business, drawing on the group’s collective wisdom.

Feel the support and belonging of an extraordinary group of peers; leverage group pattern recognition + proven best practices to make better decisions; expand your consciousness; and lean into a safe space to exhale your stressors.

Program Benefits

  • Find community, connection, resilience

  • Accelerate your personal and professional growth in a confidential, intimate, and intentional container

  • Enhance self-awareness, shed limiting beliefs, build practical skills, and embody a leadership mindset

  • Learn from others in similar situations

  • Strengthen EQ and relational skills through supportive feedback and targeted learning (incorporating the iconic Stanford GSB class Interpersonal Dynamics)

Features

  • 6-8 curated founders

  • Biweekly, 90-min sessions over 6 months on Zoom (day/time TBD by participants, tentatively Thursdays during working hours)

  • Starts Jan 2025

  • 2 x 1:1 coaching sessions with the facilitator at months 2 and 5

  • Interactive sessions tailored to the group’s learning edges

  • Optional reading and reflection exercises

  • Supportive feedback and personal growth, side-by-side with business building

Investment

  • $6500 for 6 months

Facilitator Bio: Dr. Moshe Ovadia

Moshe is a seasoned executive coach, guide to high-potential founders, and expert in conscious leadership development. 

As a Senior Management Associate at Bridgewater, Moshe deliberately developed top talent and revitalized Learning & Development, coaching the firm’s highest potential leaders.  Before that, he excelled as a management consultant at Monitor Deloitte, leading high-stakes projects for CXOs and heads of state across four continents.

Moshe’s entrepreneurial journey began with holding leadership roles (including CEO) at his family’s business. He eventually built two web3 startups as part of the founding teams.   

Moshe seamlessly integrates cutting-edge research, experiential education, and world wisdom traditions. Moshe holds an MBA and PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University and a BA from Harvard University. Moshe’s doctoral work examines how to build cultures of greater trust, psychological safety, and social cohesion. Since 2012, Moshe has facilitated the flagship course Interpersonal Dynamics (a 10-week emotional intelligence bootcamp) at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Moshe is also a lifelong pilgrim, drawing wisdom from sacred sites in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, as well as the inner mysteries of human consciousness.  He considers old-growth forests his greatest teachers.