The mission behind
AwakeTeams
Our Story
AwakeTeams trains teams together to create a new culture of practices that increase engagement over time.
Through a team learning model and curriculum, trust-building, effective communication, and productive collaboration skills are developed and measurably improved over time.
The team approach increases program engagement, allows for peer learning, and reveals blind spots through anonymous peer assessment. Each teammate is accountable for their own and the team's performance, so the team is encouraged to model and teach strong points and learn from others on weak points.
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Our Team
Leadership development, data science, psychology, software engineering, AI, and startup experts
Laura C. Wells, MBA
Laura has trained leaders in emotional intelligence at organizations including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Kaiser Permanente. She also led Marketing at the nonprofit Brain & Behavior Research Foundation where she learned about neuroplasticity and human potential for behavior change. Prior to that she worked internationally in Fortune 100 CPG companies as a brand manager.
Nishka Chotai, BS
Nishka is a data and computer engineering graduate of UC Berkeley with a concentration in Cognition. Proficient in Python, Java, SQL, and various data science libraries, her goal is to apply her technical acumen to tackle real-world challenges and make meaningful contributions. Nishka is passionate about using a data-driven approach to build great products that users truly enjoy using.
Matthew Diabes, PhD
Matt has a PhD in Organizational Behavior & Theory from Carnegie Mellon. His expertise is in collaboration and group conflict management, and his research focus is trust among team members, team knowledge-sharing and coordination, how conflict is expressed and experienced on teams, and how well-being impacts collaboration. He is an assistant professor at NYU where he teaches people analytics courses.
Beste Ozer Tezcan, MA
Beste’s expertise is in talent development at global organizations, including HR at Google. She is passionate about cultivating people’s potential and supporting their journey to become highly aware, emotionally intelligent, and socially conscious leaders who promote cultures of continuous development in their lives, organizations and society. Beste has a MA in Organizational Learning and Leadership.
Rahul Goel, MS
Rahul is a startup technical founder in the field of ML and Generative AI. Prior to this he was a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he led modeling for Gemini (previously Bard) extensions and also natural language understanding (NLU) for Google Assistant. Rahul also worked on Amazon Alexa and is a leading voice in the field of LLMs with expertise in Generative AI and Dialogue systems.
Sarah Ko-yung Lee, MEd
Sarah is a former founder with 19+yrs of experience scaling innovative programs, coaching founding teams globally, and investing in future of work companies. A Fulbright Fellow and former Coach at Stanford GSB, she grew revenue to 8-figures and successfully exited her first company in 5 years. She then went on to help scale a tech-enabled startup from pre-seed through Series B.
Luigi Maria Fierro, MBA
Luigi, Head of People & Culture at Clarity AI and former Head of of HR Strategy and People Analytics at ING, leads the HR strategic agenda globally with focus on developing people as well as advanced analytics solutions. Previously he worked with McKinsey & Co. for 10 years, where, among many other things, he contributed to the development of the Organizational Health Index.
Mads Lillelund, MBA
Mads has 20+ years of C-suite experience in high-tech markets. He has led companies through massive product transformations with a focus on disaggregated, virtualized, and cloud native software solutions and has built high performance teams and led the exits for several firms.