History will remember technology's leaders not just for exceptional financial results, but for the values and integrity of the companies they built.
About Us
Leaders in Tech (LIT) provides founders and executives of high-growth tech companies with the essential interpersonal skills needed to navigate the complexities of leadership. As companies scale, the hardest challenges aren’t technical—they’re human. Grounded in evidence-based research, LIT offers a high-trust learning lab where leaders receive real-time feedback, challenge assumptions, and take the interpersonal risks necessary for rapid growth. We foster an intimate community where leaders help each other grow as individuals and thoughtfully address the most pressing challenges in their businesses.
LIT focuses on helping leaders answer one central question:
Why should anyone follow you?
Our Mission
Tech companies are among the most powerful forces shaping our world. What these companies do and what their leaders value is integral to us all. We believe great leaders set a new standard for what it looks like to build successful companies while serving others. The most valuable skill we can teach is the ability to make wiser decisions—both individually and collectively—in order to collaborate toward a better future.
Inspired by the legendary Interpersonal Dynamics ("Touchy Feely") course at Stanford GSB and led by LIT co-founder Carole Robin, a renowned teacher of the program, LIT goes beyond leadership development—it builds a community of visionary founders committed to leading with authenticity and impact, and in service to us all.
The first step toward that vision is a small group of individual leaders making a commitment to their own growth, supported and accelerated by the power of a close and growing community.
Leaders in Tech is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Our Programs
Our flagship Fellows Programs provide in-depth leadership development for founders, resulting in lasting impact and deeply-rooted community.
Our Intensive Exec Programs give founders and executive leaders an opportunity to experience the Fellows curriculum in a more condensed format.
Our Team
Co-founded by Carole Robin, Sue Khim, and Joe Greenstein, Leaders in Tech has a robust teaching team of expert instructors, facilitators, and executive coaches well-versed in supporting startup leaders. Meet the team
Sponsors
Nominators
Aamir Virani (Felicis Ventures)
Aaron Jacobson (NEA)
Abe Yokell (Congruent Ventures)
Aditi Maliwal (Upfront Ventures)
Aditya Naganath (Kleiner Perkins)
Aike Ho (ACME Capital)
Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures)
Alex Tonelli (Endurance Companies)
Alexander Taussig (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Alexia Tsotsis (Dream Machine)
Alison Rosenthal (Leadout Capital)
Allie Mullen (Wireframe Ventures)
Allison Thoreson Bhusri (Lemonade Capital)
Amelia Lin (VC Backed Moms)
Amy Banse (Comcast Ventures)
Anarghya Vardhana (Maveron LLC)
Andrew Beebe (Obvious Ventures)
Andrew Lee (Esper Inc. )
Andrew Schoen (NEA)
Andy Chen (Coatue Management)
Andy Lam (The Space Between)
Angela Strange (Andreessen Horowitz)
Anita Hossain (First Round Capital)
Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate)
Anne Dwane (Village Global)
Annie Kadavy (Redpoint Ventures)
Anthony Lee (Altos Ventures)
Anwar Barrow (Prudential Management Firm)
Aria Finger (Reid Hoffman)
Arian Ghashghai (Earthling VC)
Ariel Poler (Reveri)
Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital)
Ashley Bittner (Owl Ventures, LP)
Ashley Cravens (Uncork Capital)
Ashley Mayer (Social Capital)
Avni Shah
Barry Eggers (Lightspeed Ventures)
Ben Casnocha (Village Global)
Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital)
Bill Perkins (Skylar Capital Management LP)
Brad Feld (Foundry Group)
Brad Horowitz (Wisdom Ventures)
Brandon Avrutin (LCap)
Brett Berson (First Round)
Brett Brohl (Bread and Butter Ventures)
Carol Wong (re.creation)
Caroline Talley (Resolute Ventures)
Catha Groot (Radicle Impact Partners)
Catherine Norman (Shasta Ventures)
Chamath Palihapitiya (Social Capital)
Charles Hudson (Precursor VC)
Chian Gong (Reach Capital)
Christiaan Vorkink (True Ventures)
Christine Mathews (OneDigital)
Craig Sherman (Meritech Capital)
Cynthia Hess (Fenwick)
Cynthia Ringo (DBL Investors)
Dani Metz Shuval (Initialized Capital)
Daniel Dippold (EWOR)
Daniel Gulati (Comcast Ventures)
Dasha Maggio (Felicis Ventures)
Dave Kashen (Fearless Ventures)
David Belden (a16z)
David Cohen (Techstars)
David Fraga
David Hornik (August Capital)
David King (Curious Endeavors)
David Mount (G2VP)
David Stewart (LiveOak Venture Partners)
David Rusenko (Leap Forward Ventures)
Dawn Dobras (Capital F)
Earnest Sweat
Elana Berkowitz (Springbank Collective)
Elisa Schreiber (Greylock)
Elizabeth Bailey (Foreground.vc)
Emery Rosansky (First Round Capital)
Emily Du (SINAI Technologies)
Emmett Shear (YC, formerly Twitch)
Eric Antonow (Metabolic Inc. )
Eric Wu (Opendoor)
Erik Torenberg (Village Global)
Erin Daruszka (OneDigital)
Ethan Kurzweil (Bessemer Ventures)
Evan Tana (Script Capital)
Fern Mandelbaum (Vista Venture Partners)
Fouad ElNaggar (Sapho)
Gabe Kleinman (Obvious Ventures)
Garry Tan (Initialized Capital)
Geoff Ralston (Y Combinator)
George Bishof (Meritech Capital)
Gus Tai (Trinity Ventures)
Harj Taggar (Y Combinator)
Helen Zelman (Lemnos Labs)
Hillá Watkins (Congruent Ventures)
Hunter Walk (Homebrew)
Ilan Gur (Cyclotron Road)
Isabelle Hau (Omidyar)
Jake Saper (Emergence Capital)
James Currier (NFX)
James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures)
Janou Gordon (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Jared Fliesler (Square)
Jason Green (Emergence Capital)
Jason Heltzer (Origin Ventures)
Jen Yip (Founders You Should Know)
Jennifer Aaker (Stanford GSB)
Jennifer Carolan (Reach Capital)
Jenny Belotserkovsky (JCF Accelerator)
Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle)
Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Ventures)
Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital)
Jessica Mah (Indinero)
Jessica Peltz Zatulove (Hannah Grey)
Joanna Drake (Magnify VC)
Joanna Riley (Censia)
John China (SVB)
John Danner (Dunce Capital)
John Lilly (Greylock)
John Yurcisin (Change.org)
Jon Callahan (True Ventures)
Josh Buckley (Buckley Ventures)
Josh Elman (Greylock)
Josh Felser (Freestyle)
Josh Hannah (Independent Investor)
Josh Kopelman (First Round Capital)
Josh Machiz (Redpoint Ventures)
Julia Popowitz (ARF Investments)
Julie Weber (The Helm)
Jyri Engestrom (Yes VC)
Kanjun Qiu (Generally Intelligent)
Kara Nortman (Upfront)
Kat Mañalac (Y Combinator)
Kate Beardsley (Hannah Grey)
Kate Doerksen (Luna)
Kathleen Estreich (Pear VC)
Katherine Fetscher (Emerson Collective)
Katie Jacobs Stanton (Moxxie Ventures)
Keely Anson (Collaborative Fund)
Kesha Cash (Impact America)
Kevin Carter (SV Angel)
Kevin Hartz (Eventbrite)
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey (SNR)
Kieran Snyder (Textio)
Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)
Kristen Hamilton (Enjoy the Work)
Kwiri Yang (Second Time Founders)
Lainy Painter Singh (Craft Ventures)
Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures)
Lara Druyan (Silicon Valley Data Capital)
Larry Yu (Accel)
Lauren Kolodny (Acrew Capital)
Laurent Valosek (Peak Leadership Institute)
Laurie Yoler (Playground Global)
Leah Busque (Fuel Capital)
Leah Pearlman (Dharma Comics)
Lee Linden (Quiet Capital)
Lindsay Lee (Authentic Ventures)
Lindsay Verstegen (Shoprunner)
Lisa Wu (Northwest Venture Partners)
Luke Beseda (Lightspeed)
Luke Pappas (NEA)
Lynn Taliento (McKinsey & Company)
Maha Ibrahim (Canaan Partners)
Maisy Samuelson (Pinterest)
Manan Mehta (Unshackled Ventures)
Mar Hershenson (Pear VC)
Mark Sugarcane (MHS Capital)
Mary Wheeler (BioRock Ventures)
Meaghan Rose (Rocksbox)
Meredith Kendall (Lightspeed Ventures)
Mia Lewin (TheFounderVC)
Michael McCullough (BrainMind)
Michelle Gale (Wisdom 2.0)
Michelle Gonzalez (Influencer Series)
Michelle McHargue (Cowboy Ventures)
Mike Gamson (LinkedIn)
Mike Hirshland (Resolute Ventures)
Mike McCormick (GreatPoint Ventures)
Molly Graham (angel investor)
Morgan Beller (Facebook)
Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)
Natalie Foster (Economic Security Project)
Nichol Bradford (Transformative Tech Lab)
Nicole Quinn (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Shasta Ventures)
Otis Chandler (Goodreads)
Paul Freedman (Entangled Ventures)
Pete Flint (NFX)
Peter Pham (Science)
Peter Segall (Insight Venture Partners)
Phineas Barnes (First Round)
Priscilla Tyler (True Venture Management)
Rachel Abood (Red Sea Ventures)
Rachel Sheinbein (Makeda Capital)
Raj Kapoor (Climactic)
Randy Ching (UP2398)
Ritu Narayan (Zum)
Rick Yang (NEA)
Rob Chess (Nektar)
Rob Go (Next View)
Rob Hayes (First Round)
Rob Hutter (Learn Capital)
Rob Ward (Meritech Capital)
Ron Beller (Branch Hill)
Rosalind Chu (Healthy Ventures)
Ross Fubini (Village Global)
Roy Bahat (Bloomberg Beta)
Ruchi Sangvi (South Park Commons)
Ruchika Siri (Acrobator)
Saar Gur (Charles River Ventures)
Samara Hernandez (Chingona Ventures)
Sarah Guo (Conviction Capital)
Sarah Kunst (Cleo Capital)
Sarah Pinto (Emerson Collective)
Satya Patel (Homebrew)
Sergio Paluch (Beta Boom)
Seth Miller (Fearless Ventures)
Shaherose Charania (First Funders)
Shamin Walsh (BAM Ventures)
Shannon Stubo (LinkedIn)
Shauntel Poulson (Reach Capital)
Shayna Harris (Supply Change Capital)
Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures)
Shripriya Mahesh (Spero Ventures)
Shruti Gandhi (Array VC Enterprise Investments and Focus)
Sierra Peterson (Voyager)
Sonali De Rycker (Accel)
Sonja Perkins (Perkins Fund)
Sophie Purdom (Climate Tech VC)
Stephanie Palmeri (Uncorked)
Stephanie Rich (Bread and Butter Ventures)
Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia Capital)
Steve Krausz (USVP)
Steve Loughlin (Accel)
Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital)
Suneel Gupta (author, RISE)
Tabreez Verjee (Uprising)
Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture PARTNERS)
Tara Perillo (Initialized Capital)
Taryn Pei (Quiet Capital)
Taylor Bernal (Constanoa Ventures)
Ted Wang (Cowboy Ventures)
Tess Hatch (Bessemer Venture Partners)
Thomas Knowles (Gratitude Railroad)
Tim Chang (Mayfield)
Tommy Leep (Jetstream)
Trae Vassallo (Defy VC)
Tyler Willis (Tradecraft Capital)
Wayee Chu (Reach Capital)
Whitnie Narcisse (First Round)
Will Kohler (Lightspeed Ventures)
Xuezhao Lan (Basis Set Ventures)
Yanda Erlich (Outlier Ventures)
Zac Zeitlin (New Ground Ventures)
Zoe Weinberg (ex/ante)