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Beyond the Series A and the future of leadership coaching with Christine Tao, CEO and Cofounder of SoundingBoard

September 21, 2022

Christine Tao, CEO and Cofounder of SoundingBoard joins the aSaaSins Podcast to talk about the process she went through raising her seed round and Series A, as well as the future of executive coaching. aSaaSins

 

Sounding Board founder is working to unlock executive coaching for all leaders

June 28, 2022

Welcome to Found, the TechCrunch podcast where we get the stories behind the startups. Christine Tao knows good leaders have good executive coaches. She founded Sounding Board to make it easier for companies to manage, scale, and measure leadership coaching on one unified platform. TechCrunch

 

Sounding Board Wins 2022 HR Tech Award For Talent Development

May 31, 2022

Sounding Board, Inc., the first Leader Development Platform designed to bridge the leadership gap, shared that it has been named Best Innovative or Emerging Tech Solution for Talent Development by the Lighthouse Research & Advisory HR Tech Awards. HRTech Series

 

AAPI Heritage Month: Meet The Next Generation Of Leaders & Entrepreneurs

May 19, 2022

Christine Tao, co-founder and CEO at Sounding Board, was featured in Forbes’ AAPI Heritage Month: Meet The Next Generation Of Leaders & Entrepreneurs. Forbes

 

Sounding Board, Inc. Named Bronze Winner In The 2021 Brandon Hall Group Excellence In Technology Awards

December 27, 2021

Sounding Board, Inc, the first customizable leadership coaching platform that combines technology and coaching to drive measurable business impact, was recognized with a coveted Brandon Hall Group bronze award for tech excellence in the Best Advance in Online Coaching Tools category. Sounding Board’s award was announced earlier this month on the heels of the company’s recent news of its Series B fund. HRTech News

 

A tech sales exec was helped so much by executive coaching, she quit her job to found a startup with her coach. Here’s how they raised over $45 million.

December 22, 2021

“Lori was a leadership coach for many years, and for the first 15 to 20 years of her career, she only coached white men, because that’s who was at the highest levels of executive leadership within some of the Fortune 500 companies,” Tao said. “And all of her clients told her, ‘Man, I wish I had access to this earlier.'” Tao approached Mazan about joining her, and the two cofounded Sounding Board, a digital executive-coaching service, in 2016. Sounding Board matches employees with a leadership coach for online meetings while tracking their goals, progress, and business metrics. Business Insider

 

Sounding Board lands Series B to move coaching beyond services and into SaaS

December 1, 2021

Now, nearly a year after landing a Series A with this vision, Sounding Board has closed a $30 million Series B led by Jazz Venture Partners, and joined by Gaingels as well as angel investors such as theBoardlist’s Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Ancestry.com’s Deb Liu, Udemy’s Yvonne Chen and Engage VC’s Tammy Aguiloon. Previous investors in the company include Canaan Partner and Precursor Ventures. TechCrunch

 

Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America Class of 2021

November 10, 2021

Congratulations to Jasmine Crowe, founder of Goodr, and Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, co-founders of Sounding Board, for being among the 27 EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women that make up the North America Class of 2021! EY

 

Wharton Magazine’s Watchlist

October 26, 2021

Christine Tao, Co-Founder and CEO of Sounding Board, was featured on Wharton Magazine’s Watchlist! Wharton Magazine

 

The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making)

March 19, 2021

Christine Tao runs Sounding Board, a business founded in 2016 that offers executive coaching services to leaders at major companies like Kraft and Heinz. But not long ago, she was the one in need of a coach. TechCrunch

 

Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching

January 22, 2021

In an unprecedented work environment defined by distributed teams and virtual-only communication, two co-founders think their 2018 bet reigns truer than ever: mentors need mentorship, too. TechCrunch

 

At Sounding Board, an executive coaching startup, the coaches get coaching, too

September 10, 2018

Everyone could use an executive coach — even executive coaches. Such is the thinking of Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, co-founders of Sounding Board, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace focused on leadership coaching that has so far raised $1 million in seed funding led by Bloomberg Beta, with participation from Precursor Ventures and numerous angel investors. TechCrunch

 

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