Collective Brains Academy

Find the right mentor for your learning needs.

Bill Brown $ 850 USD

Bill Mentors CEOs facing multiple management challenges. He is a seasoned CEO and COO with extensive experience as the former General Manager of Xerox in Canada, former CEO of Maritz Canada, BCW and FMAV, PSAV.  In his last corporate position, he had the mandate to reposition a private equity business, recruit a leadership team and build a nationwide company both organically and through acquisitions. After leaving this position, he became a startup investor, operator and advisor. He is a powerful CEO mentor because he has sat in that chair a number of times. His experience spans multiple industries, different organization sizes and includes functional roles in marketing, sales and operations. Constant across all of them has been a customer centric growth orientation, building leadership teams that own our mission and tapping into their strengths to realize our goals.

Alan Kaufman $ 850 USD

Alan Mentors CEOs and board members, helping them successfully manage the relationship between board and executives. He is an experienced CEO/President with a successful history in the luxury goods, jewelry, pharmacy, and beauty industries. He gained a breadth of experience and knowledge while working in major international companies like Inverness and Richline Group, both Berkshire Hathaway companies, and with Tru-Key Manufacturing Group. He is skilled across all facets of senior leadership and running successful companies and operations. He has particular expertise and passion in the areas of Business Development, Crisis Management, M&A, Sales, Negotiation, Customer Service, Retail, International Distribution, Leverage of Purchasing Power/Sales, and Strategic Planning.  Alan draws upon this valuable hands-on experience as a mentor to CEO’s and C-Suite Executives, and to Private Equity firms.

Cesar Keller $ 850 USD

Cesar mentors CEOs and CMOs who are faced with the challenge of growing innovative organizations across cultures. He is the founder of Collective Brains, the global platform for fast and effective upskilling. His name appears on the list of most influential in the world in the topic of the future of work.  As a former General Manager and CMO of companies such as Microsoft, Nokia, HTC, and Pepsico, he led management and marketing teams to unleash high growth in Tech and Consumer industries, adding billions of dollars to their top lines. He has spearheaded digital transformation and culture processes and led the creation of a number of winning platforms, campaigns, and products, enabling powerful emotional connections with customers. With a background in engineering, he fell in love with Artificial Intelligence in college, while creating code for a school project. Today, his studies are focused on the science behind effective leadership and high performance. His book - (Non) Human Intelligence: How AI, Automation and Robots will make us better people – is his manifesto about the positive impact of Artificial Intelligence in service of better leaders, better workplaces, and higher levels of performance.

Bert Labelle $ 850 USD

Bert Mentors is currently the CEO of Vista Security and Investigations. He Mentors CEOs and CMOs faced with the challenge of helping their companies thrive in multiple geographies and cultures.  Bert’s background includes previous global roles such as Vice President of Marketing and Innovation for the datacenter and connectivity company Cogeco Peer 1 Inc., as well as many years in various Senior-Level Sales and Marketing positions with Microsoft Corporation. He is a culturally attuned relationship builder and an inspirational team leader. Bert has a proven track record of developing creative, energized, customer-centric, and trusted high-performing communities of people with an emphasis on accountability and strong analytics to deliver business value.

Silse Martell $ 850 USD

Silse mentors CEOs who are leading massive business transformation efforts. She is a Founder, an Investor, a Board Member, and currently is the CEO of Collective Brains. She has a passion for helping shape the future of organizations. Silse is the founder of The Smart Group, a consortium that combines SMARTPR, the Brazilian PR agency trusted by some of the world's most innovative companies; Talentcomms, an agency specialized in Employer Brand Management, and Trivas Growth, a company dedicated to making other companies grow. Silse is also an investor with a focus on healthtech and serves as a Member of the Board for Leve Saude, a healthtech company dedicated to offering quality healthcare at affordable prices for senior customers in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Silse has extensive leadership experience in PR and Communications with major enterprises such as Ericsson, as well as with firms such as Fleishman Hillard.

Christopher O. H. Williams $ 850 USD

Christopher is a high impact strategy Mentor, board advisor, author and keynote speaker with a 20+ year record growing and scaling global consumer brands, notably in sport and lifestyle fashion.  He applies lessons learned throughout his journey and over 20 years in managerial and senior executive roles driving transformational change at some of the world’s most well-known brands including Nike, VF Corporation and adidas. Christopher holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and is the former President of the African Leadership University. He helps executive leaders, teams and organizations lead with purpose, unlock hidden potential, disrupt the status quo, and create consequential impact. Christopher offers a deep human-centered approach and a global perspective, supported by a disciplined process of insights to action to results.