Team
Jack Cohen
Since founding the Brain-Based Workplace in 2014, Jack has coached hundreds of founders, executives, and managers to grow as leaders and create teams and results they love. Previously, he worked for a startup bank and spent 5 years teaching psychology, which forms the foundation of much of his consulting and coaching practice. He continues to teach mindfulness and yoga.
His educational background includes a management degree from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, a Master's in Education from the Reach Institute for School Leadership, and a fairly obsessive, ongoing, and broad-reaching learning journey beyond that.
Jack is devoted to working with people to make enduring changes that leave them more liberated and empowered to act and interact in the most fulfilling ways possible. He specializes in applying this work within high-growth startups and values-driven organizations.
Fun Fact: Jack's favorite compliment was when someone told him he was "a voracious learner."
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 (704) 756-1637
Mansi Jain
With over a decade of experience facilitating and coaching leaders, teams, and organizations across industries and geographies, Mansi's orientation highlights the importance of embodiment and the development of our 'inner operating system' (how we make sense of ourselves, others, and the world) in order to create lasting change.
Mansi integrates modern research and ancient wisdom around psychological, spiritual, and systems development. She draws on her background in consulting with McKinsey & Company, leading a large-scale organizational transformation from the ground up, teaching through Wharton's Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and her varied global experiences. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and has certifications with various tools, modalities, and institutions.
Originally from India, Mansi grew up moving internationally and spent several years in England, Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia. She now lives with her partner in California, where she fills her free time with nature, music, adventure, play, and her own inner work.
Fun fact: Mansi has a deep love for hammocks (rope hammocks excluded).
Email: [email protected]
Andrew Molina
Andrew Molina (affectionately called Mo) is a transformative coach and facilitator who has worked with leaders at both early-stage and unicorn startups. In addition to building People Experience programs for organizations, Mo facilitates design strategy workshops and conducts user research efforts for organizations that want to deepen their understanding of their customers, including for clients such as Mitsubishi Estate, Udacity, and others.
He is a former curriculum designer at Stanford's d.school where he also coached students in applying design thinking to social problems in developing economies through the class Design for Extreme Affordability. Mo received undergrad (management science and engineering) and grad (computer science) degrees from Stanford and facilitates Interpersonal Dynamics, a course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Fun Facts: Mo likes to climb rocks, is an actor, and loves playing games (board games, card games, made-up games, you name it). He's also on a quest for the world's greatest donut.
Email: [email protected]
Catherine Pao
Catherine is a certified holistic leadership coach who focuses on cultivating inner leadership. She helps bring conscious intentionality to executives and teams through management leadership trainings, group coaching, and 1:1 coaching. She's coached leaders and teams from Google, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Nerdwallet, Nextdoor, HackerOne, Github, and other various startups.
Catherine believes that coming alive is the most meaningful gift you can give to yourself and the world around you. She is deeply motivated to help others come alive so they can fully feel the magic of being alive.
Formerly, Catherine led various digital marketing and growth product management teams at Blue Apron, Digital Ocean, Fab.com, and Microsoft. She's a certified professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and certified Yoga Instructor (RYT-300).
Fun facts: Catherine is an artist and has a greeting card & illustration line. Finding the perfect song that punctuates an everyday moment is one of her greatest pleasures.
Email: [email protected]
Andrew Gordon-Kirsch
Andrew Gordon-Kirsch is a leadership coach, facilitator, and consultant specializing in feedback and behavior change. He has spent the last decade helping people navigate the unknowns of transitions, first as a community organizer and later as an organization development consultant. Past clients include large companies like Kaiser Permanente and Facebook, as well as startups, nonprofits, and political advocacy groups. Andrew designs engaging experiences that take conversation and action to the next level.
Andrew also works an instructor for Bentley University’s Center for Women and Business programs on diversity, equity, and inclusion. His articles have been published in outlets such as Waging Nonviolence. He holds degrees in organizational change management from The New School and Arabic language from UCLA.
Fun fact: When not coaching or delivering workshops on inclusive culture change, Andrew can be found kayaking in a freshwater creek or working on his next backyard DIY project. He also scaled El Capitan.
Email: [email protected]
Jesse Torrence
Jesse is an Executive Coach and Organizational Development Consultant who helps mission-driven leaders and their teams unfold their full potential and achieve impact and equanimity in their professional and personal lives. Using a holistic, systems approach to understanding the whole person and the whole organization, and drawing on cutting-edge research and best practices in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, organizational behavior, design thinking, and contemplative practices like mindfulness, Jesse empowers executives and their teams with new habits, structures, and processes that make their personal lives and their organizations more integrated, resilient, balanced, and productive.
Earlier in his career, Jesse launched and led a variety of social impact organizations focused on a variety of topics – from HIV prevention to citizen diplomacy to tech entrepreneurship to mindfulness education. Jesse also worked for the Obama Campaign and the World Bank and spent 10 years advising social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, political candidates, and elected officials in the US and abroad. In 2020, Jesse helped launch Elevate – an anti-racism and decolonization initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. Jesse earned BAs in Economics and International Relations from Stanford and an MPA in International Development from Harvard, and more recently received coaching training from the Co-Active Training Institute.
Jesse lives with his wife and two kids in the Chicago suburbs.
Fun Facts: Jesse dabbles in philosophy, poetry, and piano, and is the grateful recipient of a heart transplant.
Email: [email protected]
