Member since December 2023
Jodi Lasky is an accomplished entrepreneur, coach, and speaker who has authored multiple works, fiction and nonfiction. She holds a degree in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown, as well as two law degrees: a JD from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University and an LLM in maritime law from Tulane Law School.
Jodi's various career paths and projects taught her to ask the right questions and understand leadership in all its forms. She studied neuropsychology, accountability, and productivity, as well as introversion and ADHD, in an effort to better understand herself. Her experiences and expertise led to The Introvert Founder, a coaching business that uses her Agile Business Framework to help entrepreneurs succeed.
In addition to coaching, Jodi is a founder. For ten years, she served as COO of Analysis First, a company that developed a high-tech laser tag system for training soldier, and later, as CEO of The Pride, a community-based sexual harassment and assault
prevention tool.
Jodi believes in practicing what she preaches, always pushing herself the way she pushes her clients, asking the same tough questions and doing the same homework assignments she gives to her clients. She understands the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship, and is passionate about helping others build successful businesses by encouraging them to work with their
natural tendencies instead of fighting them.
Helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses without sacrificing everything else in their lives to do so. (Even--or maybe especially--when neurodiverse.)
(Either my origin story, below, or the following.)
I never intended to be a coach. If I'm honest, I expect coaches to be nicer than I am.
When I first fell into coaching, I realized my kindness is is far more important than being nice ever could be. You see, I started coaching around the time I founded a tech startup. I live in the DC area and, at the time, there was very little in terms of a startup community, and what community I found was overly Government- and policy-focused. Understandable, but not for me.
So, about one week a month, I would head up to NYC and attend events there.
After a few months, I started seeing the same people over and over. We would catch up, and I noticed a trend: the reason I saw the same people over and over is that a lot of them were stuck in a loop of going to networking events and meeting people for lunch, or coffee, dinner, drinks, whatever. They spent so much time networking that they weren't ever working, building their business.
My big mouth got the best of me, and I started calling them on it, and gradually, well, I found myself coaching.
And now, here I am.
(Either my origin story, below, or the following.)
I never intended to be a coach. If I'm honest, I expect coaches to be nicer than I am.
When I first fell into coaching, I realized my kindness is is far more important than being nice ever could be. You see, I started coaching around the time I founded a tech startup. I live in the DC area and, at the time, there was very little in terms of a startup community, and what community I found was overly Government- and policy-focused. Understandable, but not for me.
So, about one week a month, I would head up to NYC and attend events there.
After a few months, I started seeing the same people over and over. We would catch up, and I noticed a trend: the reason I saw the same people over and over is that a lot of them were stuck in a loop of going to networking events and meeting people for lunch, or coffee, dinner, drinks, whatever. They spent so much time networking that they weren't ever working, building their business.
My big mouth got the best of me, and I started calling them on it, and gradually, well, I found myself coaching.
And now, here I am.
