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Why work with Jessica?

Jessica is a leading expert on the psychology of entrepreneurship and creativity, as well as a startup and venture capital executive, who works with individuals and organizations to help them find their unique calling, optimize their performance, and build best in class psychology-based products.

Jessica’s experience includes:

  • Professor at NYU on entrepreneur psychology

  • Expert in Residence at Georgetown University

  • Author of Wired This Way & TED Speaker

  • Head of Innovation, Product at American Psychological Association

  • Head of Psychology & Curriculum, Product at ZenBusiness

  • Director at NextGen Venture Partners

  • Neuroscience & Psychology Research Fellow at National Institutes of Health

1. Coaching

Combining her expertise in the psychology of entrepreneurs and creatives with her operational wisdom as a startup and venture executive, Jessica helps creators actualize the big visions inside of them. From aspiring entrepreneurs to seasoned founders to venture teams, Jessica tailors her coaching work based to your unique success metrics.

Offerings include:

  • Creator Coaching: For aspiring entrepreneurs who need support identifying and building their calling

  • Executive Coaching: For seasoned founders who seek psycho-business support as they scale

  • Venture Coaching: For venture firms who want to best support the entrepreneurs they invest in

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2. Speaking

Jessica offers scientifically-rigorous yet playfully engaging presentations, keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topics of psychology, creativity, and entrepreneurship. As a Professor at NYU and Expert in Residence at Georgetown, she has presented at tech conferences, universities, venture firms, and other innovative organizations across the globe.

Topics include:

  • Psychology, Neurodiversity & Mental Health

  • Entrepreneurship & Creativity

  • Self-Actualization, Meaning & Purpose at Work

  • Flow States & Peak Performance

  • And more

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3. Consulting

As a seasoned product and innovation leader in the psych-tech space, Jessica consults and contracts to build products, curricula, content, and community for companies in the psychology space or that use psychology to elevate their products.

Psychology-focused offerings include:

  • Product vision, scoping & development

  • Content & curriculum development

  • Community & engagement strategy

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With a focus on your unique personality, purpose, & potential, our work together will help you identify your creative calling, develop your creative strengths & execute on your creative vision.

Praise

  • The essential user’s manual for the entrepreneurial spirit...I only wish I’d received this profound, comforting guidance when I began my journey.

    —Justin McLeod, Founder & CEO of Hinge

  • Points the way to a healthier life as an entrepreneur, as the first step in any worthy personal or professional pursuit is being honest about one’s own experience.

    —Jon Staff, Founder & CEO of Getaway

  • The shared language we have has enriched our daily interactions, allowing for greater insights to how each of us operate, provoking empathy, confidence and above all, trust.

    —Carissa Brady, Partner of Latticework Investment Group

  • Her sessions are a must for any venture firm or high-horsepower company. We've invited her back a half-dozen times — our founders can't get enough.

    —Stephen Hays, Founder & Managing Partner of What If? Ventures

  • This is a message that should be emphasized in universities, incubators, and institutions responsible for educating the next generation.

    —Howard W. Buffett, Columbia University

  • The psychiatrist’s dream come true—clinically robust, empathetic, and actionable.

    —Nina Vasan, MD, MBA, Director of Brainstorm: Stanford

  • Deep insights and a road map for enhancing entrepreneurial success.

    —Harris Eyre MD Ph.D., Brain Health Entrepreneur, Neuroscientist & Innovation Diplomat

  • Like a Canterbury Tales of entrepreneurs, you will soon be walking your journey with fellow pilgrims... she will show you that creativity and disorder go hand in hand.

    —Andy Dunn, Co-Founder of Bonobos & Founder at Red Swan Ventures

  • If you are a parent, you read The Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. If you work with founders, you should read [Carson’s} Wired This Way.

    —Osnat Benari, VP, WeWork Labs

  • An endearing, ageless guidebook for the entrepreneurial spirit.

    —Martin Ditto, Founder & CEO, DITTO

  • A unique formulation of a path to wellness and wholeness for entrepreneurs... she helps us to understand that entrepreneurs are not only people, but people who matter.

    —Michael Freeman, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF

  • A unique and much-needed perspective on the mental and emotional health challenges faced by those trying to create a new world.

    —John Stokes, Founding Partner at Real Ventures

  • Carson attends to the whole experience of being a creator—not just the photoshopped and edited versions we often see in the media.

    —Luke Arthur Burgis, Professor at Catholic University & Author of Wanting

  • Refreshingly unravels the oft-repeated platitude ‘bring your whole self to your work.

    —Jessica Straus, Venture Partner at Dundee Venture Capital & Kauffman Fellow

  • Part self-exploration, part examination of the creative spirit, and part manifesto. But the sum is even greater than the excellent parts.

    —Allen Gannett, Founder of TrackMaven & Author of The Creative Curve

  • She provides a clear message to any aspiring entrepreneur that IT IS OK TO BE YOU.

    —Jeff Reid, Founding Director & Professor, Georgetown University Entrepreneurship Initiative

  • Should not only be required for anyone that aspires to build products in the 21st century, but also for those people who work with them...insights are relatable and rare.

    —Chris Messina, Inventor of the Hashtag

  • A user-manual for the creative mind, and a guide for those who live in their wake.

    —Jason Silva, Futurist & Former Host of Host Brain Games

  • If you are an entrepreneur, you MUST read this book if you want to understand yourself and succeed in business... you can’t afford not to.

    —John Gartner, Ph.D., Author of The Hypomanic Edge

  • Carson demonstrates the complexity of a creator’s mind...composed harmoniously to shape a beautiful work of art. Breathtaking.

    —Christian Busch, Ph.D. Faculty at NYU & Author of The Serendipity Mindset