Speaking & events
Keynotes, workshops, and retreats for teams.
I also guest lecture at Berkeley Haas on operating at sustainable peak performance and living a meaningful life.
"I interviewed several potential speakers and Leland immediately stood out as the best choice. … My team continues to rant about how great of a speaker he was."
Pippa Saunders · Cloud Strategist & Team Lead, Google Cloud
Speaker bio · as requested
Leland Franklin
Executive Coach · Founder, Kenshō Leadership
Leland Franklin is an executive coach and the founder of Kenshō Leadership, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. A Professional Certified Coach (ICF), Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CTI), and Certified High Flow Meditation Guide, he has coached senior leaders at high-growth startups and iconic companies including Google, Apple, Anthropic, SpaceX, and LinkedIn - and, increasingly, at mission-driven organizations and impact investing funds including Breathe For Change, High Resolves, Acumen America, and Social Good Fund. He has worked with over 45 teams and coached over 2,000 hours, and has facilitated and trained more than 750 people managers on five continents, for companies including Dow Jones, GoFundMe, Lululemon, and Oura Ring.
Before becoming a full-time coach, Leland spent 12 years inside hyper-growth tech companies. He joined GoPro in 2013 as the first software PM; the team he built shipped 8 flagship HERO cameras and 50+ features that drove the two highest revenue years in company history, a 2014 IPO, a $12B peak, and an Emmy. He then led Partner Engineering at Clever, a YC-backed edtech platform used by 95,000 K-12 schools and 22 million students a month, en route to its $500M acquisition. Earlier, he led 30+ enterprise technology projects for Fortune 500 companies at Citrix as a technical consultant and systems architect.
Leland holds an MBA with Honors from UC Berkeley Haas and an economics and org behavior degree from Brown University, studied behavioral science at Yale School of Management, and is a Stanford-certified Advanced Project Manager. He mentors founding teams through Berkeley SkyDeck, UC Berkeley's startup accelerator, and guest lectures at Berkeley Haas on operating at sustainable peak performance and living a meaningful life.