Empowering you and your organization to take bold moves
Caroline Johnson
An expert at organizational culture and social capital, Caroline works with leaders, their teams and their organizations to create and lead the most effective and powerful leadership acceleration program in the world.
Caroline began her military career at the United States Naval Academy joining the elite Naval Aviation community. She was awarded her wings of gold and designated a Naval Flight Officer, more specifically an F/A-18 Weapons Systems Officer. Finishing at the top of her class she was awarded the Paul F. Lawrence award as the #1 strike fighter graduate and recognized as the overall Top Graduate.
Caroline flew in F/A-18 Super Hornets as a member of VFA-213 the World Famous Fighting Blacklions and she embarked on 9 month deployment on the USS George H.W. Bush. On her historic deployment, Caroline and the Blacklions flew in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Inherent Resolve seeing action in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Her squadron employed the first weapons on ISIS in Iraq, conducted the first ever US strikes into Syria, and Caroline was the first woman to neutralize ISIS from the backseat of an F/A-18. At the Blacklions, Caroline completed her SFWT level II, III, and IV qualifications, she earned her Combat Mission Commander designation. Caroline returned to teach at the United States Naval Academy.
Caroline holds MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, MA in Administrative Leadership from University of Oklahoma (graduated with honors), and BSc in Economics from the United States Naval Academy.
Sarah Lihan
High-performing US Olympian with expertise in leadership, strategy, and operations. Skilled in hitting targets, building relationships and innovative thinking with a high bias for action.
Sarah knows what it means to perform, and how to help sustain that peak performance across your organization. She is a world champion sailor and competed at the London 2012 Olympics.
Sarah accelerates the leadership of individuals, teams and organizations to achieve audacious goals. She helps managers and executives sustain peak performance by ensuring they have the necessary training and preparation to operate at full capacity under pressure. She has spent her career helping leaders perform their best through her work as an executive coach and through her time at various high-growth startups, including Lyft, Ford Smart Mobility (Spin Scooters), and Abnormal Security.
Sarah holds MBA from the Darden School of Business and BA in Psychology and American Studies from Yale.
Rahul Bhandari
Rahul dares to imagine we can change the world for the better. In a world that too easily settles for less, he believes it is worthy work to envision, believe in, and fight for economic freedom, inclusion, and mutual respect. It’s the work he does every day as an investor and strategic advisor.
Rahul is a world-renowned business advisor, author, and speaker. He works with many top companies, CEOs, and boards. His professional experience spans three decades as a corporate executive, entrepreneur and investor. Multilingual and multicultural, Rahul has worked directly with government agencies, Fortune 500, and international companies in Australia, Asia, Latin America, and Europe on turnaround and growth mandates. Previously, Rahul led growth initiatives including new venture development, acquisitions, and leading large-scale complex change programs at Accenture, Oracle, and Thomson Reuters.
Deemed “Silicon Valley’s high powered thinker” by Fortune, "Rahul is the go-to person for sharp thinking, conscious leadership, and turning adversity into an advantage" by Forbes, and “Leadership expert” by Psychology Today. Rahul is also an author and essayist on leadership and overcoming adversity, having published in Leader to Leader, the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute’s award-winning journal and his acclaimed book Slingshot: The Power of Bold Moves.