PSYCHOTHERAPIST + EXECUTIVE ADVISOR

Sepideh Saremi is a licensed psychotherapist and executive advisor who helps entrepreneurs and business partners navigate mental health, creativity, and leadership. She combines somatic practices and movement with traditional talk therapy to support more expansive and innovative ways of being. As the founder of Run Walk Talk®, she brings therapeutic conversation into motion—an approach featured in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Fast Company, Runner’s World, and Well+Good. She also trains clinicians to integrate movement into their practice through the Run Walk Talk® Certification Program. Born in Germany to Iranian parents, Sepideh is a third-culture kid and proud Persian Valley Girl now based in L.A.'s South Bay. She is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction writer. Find her online at runwalktalk.com and therapyforentrepreneurs.com.

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At X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X), AJ was Global Head of Talent Experience, driving transformative strategies and building moonshot teams to tackle the world's toughest challenges. She also fronted X’s rock band, The Groove Factory, and briefly served as a Resident in the Rapid Evaluation Lab, incubating new projects with X's engineers and scientists.

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AJ founded The Troublemaker Lab in 2016, coaching and advising extraordinary founders and teams, and currently leads the CXO Network at A.Team, helping build high-performing teams to create transformative products. An award-winning children's book author, AJ advises startups in Web 3.0, sustainable battery technologies, and the future of work. She lives in the SF Bay Area with her husband and three children.