Steve Schloss

Operating Partner at Edison Partners

Steve is an accomplished business leader, chief people officer. and trusted partner with the board and CEO. Known for his intentional. contextual, and values-driven leadership. Steve is a highly effective coach, advisor, and facilitator for C-level teams and a proven assessor and developer of senior-level talent and capability for the rapidly changing world. He helps executive leaders and teams their performance. navigate and propel the organization forward. create and sustain value with and for key stakeholders, and affirm mission, culture, and strategy. Steve leverages his breadth and depth of experience and his strategic insight as a speaker and podcast guest across an array of leadership and HR topics: graduate guest lecturer. and mentor emerging leaders across the tech and HR community. He is foremost a listener. observer. divergent thinker, re-framer. pragmatist, and designer of new pathways for growth. change, and lasting impact.

For over three and a half decades Steve built, scaled, and transformed global organizations and premier brands across diverse industries including banking and finance (Citi), and digital media. entertainment, and publishing (TimeWarner/Time Inc). conversational commerce and Al (LivePerson), and sports (United States Golf Association/USGA). Steve spent twelve years as a graduate faculty member at the New School for Public Engagement in New York City where he designed courses that intersected strategy. HR, and the digital world. He is a certified executive and team coach. a Baldrige Executive Fellow. and was a pro-bono coach to global leaders across the Ashoka network for social entrepreneurship.

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