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Investors, customers, employees, and partners often form opinions within seconds of meeting you. Those first impressions can shape fundraising conversations, hiring decisions, partnership opportunities, and team dynamics. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science, Olivia Fox Cabane will demonstrate how charisma can be learned and how founders and business leaders can apply these skills in fundraising meetings, presentations, interviews, and everyday leadership situations.

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Olivia fox cabane

Olivia Fox Cabane

AUTHOR, THE CHARISMA MYTH & THE NET AND THE BUTTERFLY
CO-FOUNDER, THE KINDEARTH.TECH FOUNDATION

Olivia Fox Cabane is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science of charisma and the bestselling author of The Charisma Myth and The Net And The Butterfly, which have been translated into 36 languages.  

Previously Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford StartX, Olivia has lectured on charisma, leadership, and innovation at Harvard, Yale, MIT, the Marine War College and the United Nations. 

She has been featured in media such as The New York Times, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. Her clients include the leadership of Deloitte, UBS, Google, and TikTok as well as founders of Airbnb, Brex, Paradigm and Presight.  

As cofounder of the KindEarth.Tech Foundation, she supports foodtech’s most innovative companies for environmental sustainability.

Olivia is fluent in four languages and was the youngest person ever to have been appointed Foreign Trade Advisor to the French Government. 

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