Can you teach leadership skills?

Harish Rao (CEO, Interpersonal Frequency)

Harish Rao addresses the issue of whether leadership can be learned. He talks about the different growth skills that leaders can obtain from classes and business coaches and relates it to the skills he has learned as a CEO.

Harish Rao
Harish Rao

Harish began his career as a whiz kid and the Director of IT for Governor Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, where he was responsible for all back-end technologies including communications, technology, infrastructure, and data services. In 2009, after a successful exit from his previous company, Harish founded Interpersonal Frequency. Harish is also currently working toward his PhD in Computing in the field of “big data,” network science, and network prediction from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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About the Author

Harish Rao

Harish Rao

Harish began his career as a whiz kid and the Director of IT for Governor Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, where he was responsible for all back-end technologies including communications, technology, infrastructure, and data services.

In 2009, after a successful exit from his previous company, Harish founded Interpersonal Frequency. Harish is also currently working toward his PhD in Computing in the field of “big data,” network science, and network prediction from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Jennifer Crumpton

Jennifer Crumpton

Jennifer is the author of "Femmevangelical: The Modern Girl's Guide to the Good News", and is a media commentator, blogger and reporter. Jennifer spent over a decade as an advertising executive for Fortune 500 companies and led multi-media direct and brand initiatives for acquisition, retention, and loyalty campaigns in the telecommunications, banking, and media/entertainment industries.

She currently is a media commentator to MSNBC/Shift, FOX and Friends, FOX News, The Kelly File, The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson, CNN Headline News, NewsMax, The Daily Wrap, MidPoint with Ed Berliner, One America News Network, Arise America, and numerous Sirius XM shows. And is also columnist for Huffington Post and Patheos, and a contributor for Variety, The Hill, and others.

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