July 15, 2024 - Going Public Dakin Campbell and Performance Science Coaching Dr. Carla Fowler

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Dakin Campbell – Chief Finance Correspondent of Business Insider’s and Author of Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street’s Grip on the IPO and Sparked a Revolution

Dakin Campbell is Business Insider’s chief finance correspondent, writing features and conducting investigations into Wall Street’s largest and most powerful firms. He has written extensively about Goldman Sachs and the challenges its CEO has faced in his first few years on the job. Campbell joined Insider in April 2018 from Bloomberg News, where he spent a decade writing for its wire service and magazines. His writing has led to the resignation of the nation’s busiest bankruptcy judge, and spurred a group of powerful Senators to scrutinize the bankruptcy of a private prison healthcare company. Before joining the investigations team, he covered Wall Street for 15 years. Goldman Sachs’ CEO began leasing a plane just days after Dakin uncovered the executive’s extensive personal use of the corporate jet. Dakin joined Insider in April 2018 from Bloomberg News, where he spent a decade writing for its wire service and magazines. He holds a BS from Cornell University, an MS in journalism from Columbia University, and a CFA charter. His first book, Going Public, was published in July 2022.
Carla Fowler, MD PhD – Founder of THAXA Performance Science Coaching

Carla Fowler, MD PhD founded THAXA out of a passion for performance science, where the fields of strategy, productivity, and psychology intersect. Since its inception in 2013, THAXA’s scientific approach to individualized coaching has attracted a devoted client base of dozens of executives at firms ranging from Fortune 500 technology companies to venture-backed startups to innovative nonprofits. Carla’s coaching methods draw upon the multidisciplinary field of performance science to generate the best ideas surrounding strategy, execution, and mindset to assist leaders in their endeavors. Over the past 10 years, she has distilled the key principles of performance into understandable concepts and a method that helps leaders incorporate these ideas into their day-to-day performance, helping them go faster and improving their results. Outside of her coaching, Carla truly enjoys sharing her key performance principles with audiences while engaging in thought-provoking conversations surrounding her passion for performance science. Carla graduated from Brown University magna cum laude, earned her MD and PhD at the University of Washington, and completed her internship in general surgery at Stanford University. THAXA ditches the self-help fluff and rewires the brains of busy executives. For over ten years, her unique blend of strategy, productivity, and science has helped leaders crush their goals at Fortune 500 giants, scrappy startups, and mission-driven nonprofits.