Alla A.

Investor | 3X Founder | Negotiator | Mentor | Author at Adam Impact Institute

Entrepreneurship and startups

Education: Yale School of Management - Harvard Law School
Chicago, IL, USA

Biography

Alla is a Startup & VC Mentor at StartOut and Techstars, a Startup School Mentor at Y Combinator, a Startup & VC Mentor at Founder Institute, an Affiliate Member of HeartMath Institute and Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School, an Official Member at Forbes Coaches Council, and an Advisory Council Member at Harvard Business Review.

She is a Certified Crisis Negotiator and a Member of the National Council of Negotiation Associations (NCNA).

Alla has been successfully future-proofing humans across the globe since 2003.

Her service portfolio includes Executive | Startup | VC | Negotiations coaching & mentoring.

Her IP includes transformational coaching technique TAM or The Adam Method, NaaS or Negotiations as a Service, TAC or The Adam Curve.

Alla’s professional coaching & advising has generated a cumulative sum of $12B in VC & grants for startups worldwide.
Her client list includes smart humans & teams from Tesla, Amazon, Google, Kraft Heinz, Red Bull, Coca-Cola, Danone, PepsiCo, Nestle, JTI, Ernst & Young, BlaBlaCar, Archer, Tovala, Literati, Forbes, London Business School, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Kellogg School of Management, etc.

Her areas of investment interest include but are not limited to SpaceTech, Psychedelics, EdTech, AI, Nuclear Energy, HealthTech, Blockchain, and Smart City Solutions.

Alla is a founder of Adam Impact Institute, a publicly-traded human on HumanIPO, a thought leader on Forbes, and the author of 3 Playbooks: Million Dollar Coach Playbook, Million Dollar Investor Playbook, Million Dollar Negotiator Playbook, and TAM Journal. Her new book Time. Money. Status. Relationships. Peace of mind. was released on June 12, 2024.

She has four Executive Education certifications from Harvard Law School, Yale School of Management, Kellogg School of Management, and Berkeley School of Law, as well as a BS and MS degree from Kyiv National Economic University. She is currently mastering Chinese Mandarin at Peking University.

Aside from her professional activities, she is a committed contributor, mentor, and judge at Lumiar Education, Global Citizen, Seedstars, MassChallenge, BIP Ventures, Village Capital, P33 Chicago, Startmate, and Africa’s Business Heroes.

Alla is a valued member of global communities such as the United States Institute of Peace, Singularity University, Startup Disrupt, Zebras Unite, The Long Now Foundation, International Brain Initiative, and Business of Purpose.

Passion

Piloting single engine planes. Professionally. Purposefully. Passionately.

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More than 100 miles

When it comes to payments

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