Julian Lighton

JULIAN LIGHTON is regarded as one of Silicon Valley’s leading strategy practitioners and business coaches helping individuals and organizations navigate what’s next. Julian has more than 30 years’ experience as a senior operating executive, general manager, consultant and coach, including being a non-executive director; a Chief Strategy Officer at four, billion-dollar revenue, public companies; a GM of a $300m+ services company; an associate partner in a world class consulting business (McKinsey); and a senior global sales and marketing executive in Fortune 100 companies (Hitachi and Cisco).

He holds a BA and MA in Law from Magdalen College, Oxford, is a Chartered Director by the UK’s Royal Institute of Directors, is a Master Negotiator from PON at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, and is one of only four hundred coaches worldwide to be recognized as a senior professional coach at the individual and team level by both the ICF and EMCC.