As mother-daughter co-founders of the newly announced executive coaching startup, LeaderEQ, Chessa Eskandanian-Yee and Katherine Eskandanian-Yee are reimagining the way today’s executives grow into great leaders. The two have built and just launched the first ever AI-powered executive coaching platform, giving executives unlimited access to a perfectly matched coach. As Katherine and Chessa grow the company together, they are working to not only advance their business, but also the opportunities for women to succeed in the mainly male-dominated tech hubs around the world, including Silicon Valley.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Chessa’s mom
When business started difficulties overcame:
“just getting started and like the idea of just it’s not going to be perfect, it’s never going to be perfect. But also the idea of trusting people you don’t know with your idea, your concept and executing your on it the way you want to execute on it and just having faith that you are not going to get burned. But trust was one of the biggest things about it and it’s one of those things where you have to just kind of throw yourself into and run the risk that it will go your way”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets Book by Al Ramadan and Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead and Kevin ManeyFavourite Quote:
- “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Steve Jobs
- “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs
Recommended Online Resources:
- TechCrunch is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare. It reports on the business of tech, tech news, analysis of emerging trends in tech, and profiling of new tech businesses and products.
- Forbes Tech Council is a community for senior technology executives such as CIOs and CTOs
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“listen to your customer and don’t think for your customer”…[Listen for More]
More About Chessa Eskandanian-Yee:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Surviving a failure gives you more self–confidence. Failures are great learning tools… but they must be kept to a minimum.” Jeffrey Immelt
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chessa Eskandanian-Yee:
- “identify who your audience is and then go out and talk to them”
- “Everything that has happened I have learned a ton from it. Where I failed, I learned and where I succeeded, I took note”
- “the secrets to success are really enjoying what you do, believing you what you do and being able to overcome all mental boundaries that you think you might have in order to achieve what you need to achieve”
- “we didn’t know how easy it could be until someone made it easier”
- “I am afraid of failure but I try to overcome that fear every day”
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