Bio

Sarah Sonnenfeld (left) has led teams and advised clients at start-ups and some of the world’s most respected companies. Sarah brings tools from organization design, behavioral science, network analysis, futurism, and classic business strategy: her radar is always searching for the glimpses where the emergent becomes tangible. Before founding Alsephina Consulting, she ran the North America division of the People & Organization Practice at Boston Consulting Group. Sarah lives in Boston and holds a BA from Harvard and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth. She is an affiliate practitioner with the University of Southern California’s Center for Effective Organizations and the author of “The Zig Zag Imperative: A New Way to Think about Strategic Vision.”

Lisa Wocken (right) is a DAO educator/researcher and founding member of talentDAO. Prior to talentDAO, she recently completed her PhD in Organizational Leadership and founded Bolster Leadership building leadership development products aligned to the DAO ethos. She is an adjunct instructor at the University of Minnesota and is actively researching leadership in the decentralized world of work with talentDAO. Her background includes leadership development, teaching and coaching. She led digital executive education and enterprise leadership development at Cargill and Target during times of peak transformation. Her work is informed by behavioral science, positive psychology and neuroscience to help develop workers for the future.