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BetterUp Cofounder Explains The Mental Stability Needed To Lead Effectively

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Robichaux is the CEO and co-founder of BetterUp, the human transformation platform and inventor of digital coaching. As CEO, Alexi leads BetterUp’s mission to enable all people to live with greater clarity, purpose, and passion.


Alexi was recently recognized on Forbes Future of Work 50 alongside luminaries and leaders shaping the workplace of tomorrow, today. He regularly contributes to publications such as Harvard Business Review and Entrepreneur, and has been featured in Fast Company, WSJ, Financial Times, and Fortune, among others, discussing the topics most relevant to leaders, organizations and their employees.


Prior to BetterUp, Alexi was Director of Product Management at VMware. He led product and design teams to build enterprise collaboration software that earned Gartner’s “best in class” distinction. He also witnessed the changing relationship between employees and employers that is key to future human flourishing and innovation.


Alexi joins 'Forbes Talks' with Diane Brady, to discuss mental health for workers, and Europe's approach to promoting healthy work environments.


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0:00.0

Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I'm here with Alexi Robeshow who is the co-founder and

0:06.2

CEO Bedra which has a big presence on the promenade Alexi. Let's talk about why are you

0:11.7

in Davos what brought you here and welcome well

0:14.3

thanks for having me we're in Davos because we're at our core about helping people

0:19.2

build more trust and more leadership capabilities in their organizations.

0:22.6

The theme resonates deeply and you know I think one thing that's special about Davos is you have so

0:28.1

many of the world's thought leaders, so many of the world's literal leaders and these are folks who can make

0:34.0

positive change and we want to be part of that.

0:36.0

So it's a tsunami of stuff about AI here obviously there's a geopolitical

0:41.0

com- give me some sense of the conversations you're having.

0:44.7

How much is wellness, mental health coaching actually factoring into what people are concerned

0:50.2

about?

0:51.2

I think it's coming up quite a lot more than I expected in the conversation

0:55.0

of AI and I think the context there is people still have a very tired in some

1:02.4

ways more fragile than they would want,

1:05.0

workforce coming out of the pandemic.

1:07.6

And if we could have painted the perfect chapter,

1:10.9

it would not been, then let's disrupt ourselves again with generative AI and so I

1:15.1

think there's a there's well-founded anxiety around that and I think as part of this is I want to

1:19.7

equip my people to incorporate AI into their lives to use it for good but at the same time

1:26.4

I need to understand that they may not be at the level of resilience I want so how do I foster

1:30.0

that resilience so that they can actually make the most of what is a really powerful capability.

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