David Morelli

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About David Morelli

Hi, I'm David. Today I'm the Co-Founder and CEO of OwlHub, Inc,#1 Podcast Host, Executive Coach, Leadership Trainer, Professor, and Improv Comedy Performer. However, 25 years ago, it was different. I’d just left the CEO’s office with a feeling of dread. I got it. My first promotion. Head of professional development at a 200-person startup – at age 20. The dread? I didn’t actually know how to lead! With inspiration and desperation, I trained intensively in executive coaching and leadership. At one point, a CEO client said: “Want to try coaching the 60 employees of my tech startup for 90 days?” Three months later: Job satisfaction was up 56%, employee confidence up 74%, and performing at their best jumped 84%. Seven years later, we grew from a $35M valuation to now $3.5B! My wife and I decided to create OwlHub with the mission to creating research-backed, leadership development programs to empower professionals and move the world towards equity in leadership. We wanted to create a new kind of company – one that not only obsesses about getting results for our clients, but also obsesses about making this world a more fair and equitable place for all. To do it, we formed a public benefit corporation (imagine a non-profit and for-profit had a baby!) that enables us to pursue social causes equally – literally written into our founding documents – so that as we grow, the social good we do grows as much or more. Our core philosophy, similar to Toms Shoes Buy 1 Give 1 program, will send a youth from an underserved population through a leadership training when you sign up for one of our courses.just another way we can chip away at the most difficult problems of our time. Thank you for taking the time to learn about me and my passions, and I hope to also learn about yours! Warmly, David