Asheesh Advani | Culture Eats Everything
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Asheesh is a lifelong social innovator with a passion for entrepreneurship. As an alumnus of JA, he recalls how participating in a JA program as a teenager stayed with him during his entrepreneurial endeavors, which have involved leading two businesses from start-up to acquisition. Asheesh’s first venture was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group in 2007 and rebranded as Virgin Money.  Prior to joining JA, he served as CEO of a financial technology company that was acquired by Interactive Brokers in 2015 and rebranded as Interactive Advisors. His experiences as an entrepreneur and founder have been chronicled in case studies at Babson College and at Harvard Business School.

While running his first venture, Asheesh served as a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine for five years and wrote two books about business finance which received positive reviews in the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. More recently, he has been a guest contributor for books on organizational leadership, including Leading in a Time of Crisis (Rosetta Books, 2020) and Work is Love Made Visible (Wiley, 2019). As a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s cohort of 100 Coaches, he is committed to sharing leadership lessons and mentoring the next generation of leaders.

Asheesh has been an active member of private company boards and nonprofit boards, and is currently the Board Chair of Prosperity Now, a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit that bridges public policy and practice in the areas of education, financial capability, entrepreneurship, and home ownership. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and is also actively involved in the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a member of the Global Agenda Council for the Future of Education, Gender, and Work. Asheesh started his career as a consultant at Monitor Company (now Monitor Deloitte) and at the World Bank, where he conducted research on industrial clusters as a source of entrepreneurship and innovation in promoting economic growth.


JA Worldwide Website:

https://www.jaworldwide.org/


Learn more about Asheesh...

https://www.jaworldwide.org/staff/asheeshadvani


Asheesh LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/asheeshadvani


Phoenix Performance Partners Website: 

https://www.phoenixperform.com/


Culture Eats Everything Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culture-eats-everything/id1526731051


Culture Eats Everything Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/1utf9dZh2PRQKxe6qg5I5M


Tom Willis: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasawillis


Checkout our book: 

https://www.phoenixperform.com/book


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