Gregg Schoenberg
Executive Coach & Founder, Provoking Transformation | Fintech Media Founder
A former Wall Street banker turned executive coach who treats your career like an investment portfolio and shows high performers how to diversify it.
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Talking points
- The portfolio career: applying investment theory to your professional life
- Why conflating your job with your career is high earners’ costliest mistake
- The “red teaming” exercise that exposes career blind spots
- Why the people who seem to have it all are often the most miserable
- Making a grief-driven pivot into a second act
- Why office politics isn’t the enemy: becoming a political animal on purpose
The hook
Gregg Schoenberg had a wine refrigerator in his Midtown office, survived the 2008 financial crisis, and was miserable.
At 40, with every outward marker of success, Gregg walked away from a senior bank role, not because he failed, but because coasting felt like dying. His argument: your career is a portfolio, and treating it like a single stock is a risk most high performers can’t afford.
Bio for your show notes
111 wordsGregg Schoenberg is an executive coach for people who hate executive coaching. An active angel investor, Gregg was a lobbyist, investment banker, crisis consultant, and political aide before launching The Financial Revolutionist, the edgy fintech media outlet more likely to quote Hannah Arendt than start-up CEOs. After selling The Financial Revolutionist, he struck a partnership with TechCrunch that called upon luminaries such as Ray Dalio and Stephen Schwarzman to explore financial innovation. Today, Gregg is a sought-after coach and mentor to senior-level executives ready to stage a coup d’état against their careers. His professional framework, which draws on investment management theory, argues against professional focus in favor of a portfolio career.
Past appearances
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