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Matthew Forrest Abrahams
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business
BioMatt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative and innovative educator and coach. He has published research articles on cognitive planning, persuasion, and interpersonal communication.
Matt recently published the second edition of his book Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, a book written to help the millions of people who suffer from anxiety around speaking in public. Additionally, Matt developed a software package that provides instant, proscriptive feedback to presenters. Prior to teaching, Matt held senior leadership positions in several leading software companies, where he created and ran global training and development organizations.
Matt is also Co-Founder and Principal at Bold Echo Communications Solutions, a presentation and communication skills company based in Silicon Valley that helps people improve their presentation skills. Matt has worked with executives to help prepare and present keynote addresses and IPO road shows, conduct media interviews, and deliver TED talks.
He is currently a member of the Management Communication Association (where he received a “Rising Star” award) as well as the National and Western States Communication Associations. Matt received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford and his graduate degree in communication studies from UC Davis. -
Burton Alexander Alper
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business
BioBurt has dedicated his entire career to making exceptional communication a competitive advantage. He helps leaders articulate their ideas more effectively through improved content development, storytelling, and presentation techniques.
He serves as a Lecturer and Presentation Coach at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. There, he helps students on all forms of communication ranging from business writing to oral presentations. As part of Stanford’s IGNITE faculty, Burt works with entrepreneurs in India and China to help them deliver compelling investor pitch presentations. He has worked with senior leaders in Stanford’s Athletic Department and several distinguished faculty members at Stanford’s School of Medicine.
Burt also consults with entrepreneurs, executives and corporate teams outside of Stanford who are preparing for high-stakes and high-profile presentations. His coaching ranges from initial content strategy through delivery coaching and anxiety management.
Prior to his work in the presentation coaching arena, Burt spent 12 years at Catchword Branding, a firm he co-founded in 1998. During his tenure there, he served as the head of strategy and business development. -
Edward Batista
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business
BioI'm an executive coach and a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At the GSB I teach courses aimed at helping MBA students better manage themselves and further develop their leadership and interpersonal skills.
I teach two sections of The Art of Self-Coaching (OB527), a course that I designed and launched in 2015. The course aims to help professionals and aspiring leaders be more intentional in managing their continued growth and development. I also teach a section of Interpersonal Dynamics (OB374), the school's most popular elective and known to most students as Touchy Feely.
From 2007 to 2016 at the GSB I provided individual coaching and led teams in the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program and taught sections of Leadership Labs, both of which I helped to launch in 2007. During that time I also facilitated groups in Interpersonal Dynamics, a role that I continue to play during the course's weekend retreats.
As an executive coach I work with senior leaders who are facing a challenge or would like to be more effective or fulfilled in their roles. Most of my clients are technology company CEOs, and I've worked with leaders in fields from accounting to investing to the law. I see most clients in person in San Francisco, and I work virtually with others across and outside the U.S. Issues I often address with clients include managing relationships with key employees and others, improving exec team dynamics, transitioning from technical expert to leader, evolving company culture, and better self-care.
My work as a coach began after a 15-year career in management, during which I took two years off to attend the GSB and helped launch three new organizations. I write about coaching and professional development at edbatista.com and at HBR.org. I'm a co-author of the HBR Guides to Coaching Employees and Delivering Effective Feedback, and I'm currently writing a book on self-coaching for HBR Press.
I'm married to Amy Wright, and we've lived in San Francisco since 1990. In addition to my MBA from Stanford, I earned a BA in History, magna cum laude, from Brown University. -
Mohsen Bayati
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy main research areas of interest include:
1) Probabilistic and statistical models for decision making with large-scale and complex data (and applications in healthcare).
2) Graphical models and message-passing algorithms. -
Sven Beiker
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAutonomous, connected, electric, and shared mobility in terms of product roadmaps, market sizing, and corporate strategy. The primary questions describing my work are:
- When will autonomous vehicles come to the market?
- Is there a viable business model for connected vehicles?
- Is there an inflection point for electric vehicles?
- Will consumers only use shared mobility and not own anymore?
As impossible as it is to answer those questions, as possible it becomes in a specific context... -
Scott J Brady
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business
BioScott Brady is an Investment Partner at Innovation Endeavors, an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, Tel Aviv and New York. Mr. Brady is also the cofounder and Executive Chairman of Slice, a data science and market measurement company that was acquired by Rakuten in 2014. Previously, Mr. Brady cofounded three publicly traded companies in the telecommunications and software industries - FiberTower, Clarus Corporation and SQL Financials.
Mr. Brady was the chairman and CEO of FiberTower Corporation, a provider of mission-critical backhaul services to the major wireless carriers. He cofounded the company and led it through its successful merger with First Avenue Networks, which valued the company at $780 million.
Prior to FiberTower, Mr. Brady was a cofounder and chief technology officer for Clarus Corporation, a provider of business-to-business procurement and settlement solutions. Prior to Clarus, he was a cofounder and chief technology officer for SQL Financials, a provider of enterprise financial and human resource applications. He began his career at Andersen Consulting (Accenture).
Mr. Brady is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he serves on the Advisory Council and is the chairman of the advisory board for the MSx Program. Mr. Brady received an MS in management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in business administration from the University of Florida, graduating with high honors. -
Dominique Brassey
Women in Management Facilitator, Graduate School of Business - MBA Program Office
BioDom Brassey leads growth for Lesbians Who Tech (+ Allies), a global community of 30,000+ queer women and gender nonconforming people in tech (and the people who love us) in over 37 cities around the world. Lesbians Who Tech promotes the visibility, leadership, and influence of LGBTQ women and trans/nonbinary people in tech.
Dom earned an MA in Speech and Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, focusing on collaborative group ethnography, visual anthropology, multidisciplinary media production, and participatory action research. She taught Human Communication and college-level reading and composition through The Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison from 2005-2013, focusing on intercultural discovery, intrapersonal awareness, and structured argumentation.
In tech, Dom has organized over 10 Tech Inclusion Summits (2016-2017) to strengthen inclusive tech ecosystems in major and emerging tech talent markets through Tech Jobs Tour, in partnership with Shift7 and The White House Tech Hire Initiative. She is a proud alum of business accelerator 500 Startups (2015), and Dev Bootcamp immersive web development program (2016).
Catch Dom IRL:
Emceeing events, facilitating massive Techie Speed Mentoring sessions, running Bay Area trails, waxing poetic about political nuance and intersectional identities, and living the legacy of pioneering gender-nonconforming menswear clothing startup Saint Harridan, Inc.
