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5 key leadership skills an executive coach can help you master

CIO

To do all of that, he sought help from an executive coach. I learned how to connect with executives,” says Cantrell of his experience enlisting a coach. Often lasting three to six months, coaching generally focuses on helping leaders who are in new roles or companies, or are nurturing growth potential.

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Metafy lands $25M to scale its gaming coaching platform

TechCrunch

Metafy , a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. Since that funding event, Metafy acquired rival games coaching platform GamersRdy, and the company said coaches using its service grossed over $1 million last year. million seed round.

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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

TechCrunch

The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The company says that, in the last nine months, hundreds of customers have purchased more than 2,500 hours of coaching on Leland.

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Investors and business leaders: It’s time to take coaching mainstream

TechCrunch

Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. She has keynoted the Oprah conference, given a TED talk, and been invited to Google, Amazon, the World Bank, Union Square Ventures and Red Bull to teach about navigating change and founder and startup wellness. Return on coaching (ROC).

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Daylight raises millions to build a digital banking platform ‘designed for and by’ the LGBTQ+ community

TechCrunch

Over the past year, there has been a surge of newly formed digital banks aimed at specific demographics. The banks in nearly all cases are trying to meet the needs of certain populations that they believe are feeling left out or underserved by traditional financial institutions. Maybe neobanks will break even after all.

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What the Minnesota Timberwolves Coach Chris Finch and Perficient’s Envision Framework Have In Common

Perficient

Much of the team’s success is thanks to their head coach Chris Finch and his offseason preparation for the team. W h ile learning about Coach Finch’s offseason preparation and game plans , I couldn’t help but think of the intriguing parallels between Finch’s coaching strategies and Perficient’s Envision Strategy Framework.

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The new CIO mandate: Selling AI to employees

CIO

Still, a report surfaced earlier this month that global banks and investment firms are examining the possibility of replacing entry-level financial analyst positions with AI.