North Star Leadership in the AI Age
Dr. Park coaches leaders in Silicon Valley, drawing from her award-winning teaching and research on Leadership in the AI Age at UC Berkeley. Across the course of her career, Dr. Park has coached startup founders, CEOs, investors, Fortune 500 leaders and boards, and advised senior U.S. government officials. Prior to government service, Dr. Park worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs specializing in global technology, media, and telecommunications M&A deals.
Dr. Park has taught at Harvard University and teaches at UC Berkeley Engineering for executives. Dr. Park received her doctorate from Harvard Business School, her M.A. degree in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her B.A. in Economics from Harvard University. She also holds a Certificate in Leadership Coaching Strategies from Harvard University.
To advance humanity, we need to develop more North Star leaders with game-changing, category-defining ideas in the AI Age.
What is leadership when a team is no longer fully human? Leadership is critical, yet executives don’t always know how to self-diagnose their leadership style or maximize their impact in the AI Age.
In my Harvard Business School study on high impact leaders, I found two archetypes of leaders.
North Star Leaders seek deep impact by crossing sector boundaries in pursuit of a solution to a complex problem. They are visionary founders who think from first principles and relentlessly focus on ground truth to define new directions and product categories.
Gold Star Leaders seek broad impact by rising high in influential organizations. They are strategic operators who can deftly navigate complex systems and relationships to achieve speed and results.
Both types of leaders are needed to create and build innovative, industry-shaking organizations. However, ventures can experience friction if North Star and Gold Star C-suite executives are not aligned, especially as both are augmented by AI.
Mission
My mission is to accelerate high impact leaders and “All Star” teams through star leadership evaluation, insights, and development. Maximizing the human advantage in the AI Age takes awareness, learning agility, and practice.
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