What happens when an executive coach realizes he himself is not scalable? Harry Max shares his journey from tech leadership at Google and DreamWorks to becoming a player coach who embeds with executive teams. Discover his framework for identifying humanistic leaders and why certainty kills transformation.

Harry Max is the author of Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decision, and a seasoned Silicon Valley executive player-coach; a fractional Chief Product Officer who coaches exec teams as a hands-on leader. His specialty is partnering with leaders to manage through transformations and change in chaotic environments.

Max’s experience includes having been a founder/CEO, operational leader, and consultant with start-ups, innovators, and global brands, including Apple, Adobe, DreamWorks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, PayPal, Planet Labs, Rackspace, Silicon Graphics, Skype, and Symantec. An early pioneer in e-commerce, Harry was a co-founder of Virtual Vineyards (wine.com), where his designs powered the interaction model behind the first usable and secure online shopping cart.

Harry is an autodidact. His undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focused on qualitative problem-solving and sociology. He is also an NLP Master Practitioner and a graduate of the Hoffman Institute and Aspen Institute Technical Executive Leadership Initiative.

Harry Max’s work has been featured internationally in the Economist, New York Times, TEDx, the Wall Street Journal, and a Harvard Business School case study. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Connect with Harry Max
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrymax
Website: https://www.peakpriorities.com

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Host: Meredith Eisenberg
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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