Leap Academy with Ilana Golan

Take the FREE 90-second scorecard built from Ron Johnson’s episode. Answer 7 questions about your next career leap, see where you stand, and get three practical moves based on your answers!

Ron Johnson made bold leaps as himself, and failing publicly at JCPenney, alone in a Dallas ho...

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Ambitious professionals: Melissa Arnoldi, EVP at AT&T Business, on bold leaps, staying curious, and how senior leaders really make decisions. Melissa leads 17,000 people and a $25 billion por...

Communication skills and sales pitching: Dr. Forbes Riley explains how a painful, isolated childhood gave her the instincts behind $2.5 billion in sales.

Fitted with braces, headgear, and a tongue thruster for eight years, Forbes had no friends and communicated by writing and pointing. Television became her only window to human connection, and that solitary study b...

Founders and executives: Stacy Brown-Philpot traces her path from Detroit to Google, TaskRabbit CEO, and a $172M debut venture fund.

Stacy spent nearly a decade at Google, growing from a 14-person team to leading over 1,000 people in India. She later became CEO of TaskRabbit and sold it to IKEA after launching it into four new countries.

To build Cherryr...