Testimonials from recent Pivot CEO Academy participants
Shimshon Jacobi
"I wish I had this course six months ago because it would have saved me a lot of pain. It helps you understand exactly what you’re stepping into, providing structure to things that are otherwise only learned through trial and error."
"The term sheet walkthrough was particularly impactful for me; even though some of it is 'common knowledge,' going through it line by line made a massive difference. Online courses and podcasts simply can’t replace the ability to ask questions about your specific situation."
Marianna Truman
"Knowing that even very successful CEOs struggled made me realize that what I’m experiencing is normal. The program kept it real by sharing fears and failures, not just success stories, which helped me see my current challenges as just one step in the journey."
"The program helped me transition from being a scientist to speaking the language of business and investors. It gave me the confidence, strength, and perspective I needed at a very challenging stage of my growth as a leader."
"The term sheet walkthrough was particularly impactful for me; even though some of it is 'common knowledge,' going through it line by line made a massive difference. Online courses and podcasts simply can’t replace the ability to ask questions about your specific situation."
Yossi Rosenblum
"It’s tailored to the real challenges of running a startup, not generic management theory you'd find in a textbook. I actually used one of the framework tools in a real company decision shortly after a session—it just clicked and felt immediately applicable."
"The ‘run toward the pain’ framework changed how I think about hard calls and leadership. Hearing real stories from experienced CEOs made the lessons stick in a way that a standard university lecture never could."
Ronen Schuster
"The insights were immediately helpful - I went straight from one of our sessions into a series of interviews, applying what I had just learned about building and layering teams. It wasn’t theoretical; it translated directly into my day-to-day role."
"This program expanded my horizon on senior executive leadership and helped me better understand the conflicts and dilemmas that CEOs face. Because of this, I can now operate and communicate much more effectively at the C-suite level."
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Trusted Leadership Behind Pivot CEO
I have had the privilege of knowing and working with Saul Orbach for many years and vouch for his integrity, skills and broad spectrum of business knowledge.
That he is leading the Pivot CEO Academy is testimony to its quality and value. Please do read on.
There are professional CEOs. There are aspiring and innovative entrepreneurs. However, genuinely successful entrepreneurial CEOs are truly a unique breed.
Traditional MBA programmes (average cost $63,000) aim to develop executive management skills. Many traditional MBA graduates will become professional CEOs.
Pivot CEO Academy is purpose designed and built for founders, whose venture is under way and thus in need of an adept and evidentially skilled CEO, rather than a mere aspirant one.
No different to their would-be professional investors, wise founders will avoid rolling the dice on whether they will, by sheer happenstance and hard work, turn out to be the adept and accomplished CEO that their venture deserves.
A CEO invested in and equipped with the character, courage knowledge and tools need to become one of the greats.
It is this very select group of wise and hungry founders that the Pivot CEO Academy seeks as graduates.
David Robson
Managing Partner at Archemys
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What People Are Saying
Rob invested in me and the team to accelerate delivery and focus on the customer. He trained us up to become Scrum Master's and Product Owners in a most unconventional but highly effective way: We took a 1 hour online course on Demingway. We then met as a team to participate in a small number of highly structured workshops -- topics included empirical process control in scrum, lean canvas, roles and accountabilities, that made us think deeply and helped us understand our deliverables. It was from this training that I was able to pass my CSM and bring value to my team.
Sonum Garg
Project Leader at BCG
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What People Are Saying
Rob in an exceptionally talented thoughtful leader in learning science and software engineering. We were able to make our Harvard-Microsoft Adaptive Learning Open Source Initiative (ALOSI) a reality due to his unique abilities in organizational collaboration via Scrum, program leadership and vision and pushing for broad goals for the project. I'm grateful to Rob for his key contributions in organizing the open source community, leading code review, performance engineering, deployment thinking and effective communication. Working with Rob on complex engineering and learning science project is a superb experience.
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What People Are Saying
I had the great pleasure of working with Rob on the extensive collaboration between McKinsey Academy and edX. Rob's leadership on the project spanned bridging executive teams, building an optimal development organization and determining the ultimate technical architecture, all while stewarding edX internal priorities and fostering the burgeoning Open edX community. It is an impressive body of work.
Rob has the rare ability to understand technology stacks and engineering team dynamics and at a very deep level with an uncompromising focus on business goals. He's able to ensure technology and strategy are never at odds. And perhaps most importantly, he garners the respect of his executive peers and technical teams through his knowledge, constant insights and integrity.
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What People Are Saying
From time-to-time in your professional career you're fortunate enough to work with people like Rob who inspire you, drive you, and help you to see opportunities where others only see risks or complications.
Simply put, Rob is one of the most entrepreneurial people I've had the privilege of working with. His vision, imagination, and bold ambition serve as an inspiration to me, and his careful mentoring and well-timed interventions help the teams that he leads to succeed and have also helped me to succeed as a professional.
Rob's leadership of the Microsoft Professional Program core team (which he subsequently handed off to me after it achieved a sufficient state of maturity) was a "master class" in entrepreneurial leadership. I'm grateful for our business partnership and friendship, and thank Rob for challenging and inspiring me to be the best professional and leader I can be.
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What People Are Saying
During this time Rob managed to bring immense value to our organization as on top of coaching his line of business he boosted the agile coaching skills of all the agile coaches in our Center of Excellence.
Rob coached our Scrum masters, PMs and managers on continuous backlog management, effective big room planning, manage dependencies more effectively, how to use Non-Violent Communication and how to use Large Scale Estimation method for initial estimation of our roadmap features.
As OpenAI entered our lives, Rob built an interactive Product Manager workshop for OpenAI including prompt engineering guide for writing epics & stories. and led a hackathon effort to build an internal tool for PMs based on OpenAI.
it was impressive to see how Rob managed to map organization challenges and help us improve our productivity.
Israel NICE