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David W. Riggs

Ilana Golan

🏆 Founder & CEO Leap Academy - Career, Leadership & Entrepreneurship Programs🏆 Startup Of The Year 2023🚀 Leap Academy podcast - Top charts 👑▶ Public & Private Board | Investor (>100 companies) | Keynote Speaker

🏆We help individuals leap & build portfolio careers🏆

Get clarity on what’s next for them & create wealth through an unshakable personal brand that will significantly fast track their influence, income and impact. 🚀

👑 Leap Academy is one of the Fastest growing companies in America according to Inc 2024 & 2025
👑 Won startup of the year for 2023

🎤Leap Academy Podcast is top charts speaking about careers with the biggest leaders of our time (Richard Branson, Garyvee etc).

Leaping and AQ (Adaptability Quotient) are currently the most important skills for the future of work and millions will need to reinvent themselves.

Whether you are looking to: 
🚀 Land leadership and executive roles
🚀 Start profitable businesses 
🚀 Expand to public speaking, advisory, boards and more

We are on a mission to help 10M driven individuals bulletproof their career, by building a robust personal brand and learn the art of leaping so they can create the career and life they want. 💰

Portfolio career and multiple streams of income is the future of work and no one is teaching it except for Leap Academy. 

Whether you are looking for a job, want to fast track to leadership, or debating about entrepreneurship - we will be the shortest path to your leap & then help you create an impactful brand and portfolio career by leaping again and again. 

Who am I? 🙋‍♀️

🛫An F-16 flight instructor and first commander in my squad (F-16 Simulator IDF) 
👩‍💻turned tech executive => 
Entrepreneur (exit), 
🏆Public & Private Board Director & 
🏆Investor (in over 100 companies )🚀

🔥 Selected top 40 women to watch - 2016
🔥 Business Insider Silicon Valley Women of Influence - 2017 
🔥 CEO World Award - 2020.

Award-winning international keynote speaker. 
Featured on Yahoo Finance, Market Watch, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, and more.  

❤️ Ironman, adventure races & mountaineering in the past, now love traveling with my beautiful family.

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🔔 For more information: http://leapacademy.com/
💪 Free Training on how to leap your career: https://www.leapacademy.com/training
📞 Apply for a free career strategy call with my team (for serious driven professionals only): https://www.leapacademy.com/apply

Founder & CEO

Leap Academy is disrupting professional education and helps driven professionals significantly fast-track their careers.

With our engineered, proven method, they get clarity for what they want to do next, leap to leadership or entrepreneurship and gain the income, reputation, impact, and balance they desire.

Our award-winning, internationally renowned system has helped hundreds of professionals across 5 continents create $60M value to the markets through salary increases, raised venture capital, and M&A. 

The professionals in our Leap Academy have the tools to reinvent and leap again and again, paving a path to legacy, thought leadership, and freedom.

We overestimate what can happen in a year,

And underestimate what can happen in a decade.

After my pivot from tech to entrepreneurship, 
I let the doubt creep in.

🔶 I wasn’t a certified coach 
🔶 I had never built a coaching company 
🔶 Entrepreneurship was new to me
The moment I stopped overanalyzing for perfection,
 
We became one of the fastest-growing companies in America.

Your impact rarely comes from the skills on your resume.

It comes from:

🔢 Your courage to try  
🔢 Your curiosity to act
🔢 And your unique strengths

It’s okay to let your light shine.✨

🏆Portfolio Career & Personal Brand Builder 💰 CEO Leap Academy - Career Reinvention & Fast Track Programs. 🚀Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies 🚀 Leap Academy podcast - Top charts 🎤 Board Director | Investor | Speaker

Wow, 2025 was a roller coaster!

I know that for some, this has been one of the worst years.
This year has created a new level of resilience and perspective.

For us, despite the many downs, I want to reflect on the wins…

It’s so easy to feel beaten by comparing yourself to others’ success,
But if you force yourself to find the good - it’s incredibly empowering. 


So here are my top 12 wins from the past year,
NOT to brag but to inspire you to do the same reflection.

And if you had a hard year -
I’m here to remind you that it’s always darkest before sunrise. 

So let 2026 be your sunrise 


My 12 wins this year:
✅ My coaching business is still one of the fastest growing private companies in the US (@Inc). I still pinch myself that I get to change careers & lives for a living.

✅ Crossed the $15M, all bootstrapped, which so many told me it’s not possible.

✅ 1 Million have listened, downloaded or watched my leap academy podcast (interviewing famous leaders about their career, like founders of Airbnb, Wikipedia, Zillow, Reebok, Square and countless others). If you need inspiration and shortcuts - this is it 


✅  Spoke on big stages about AQ, Portfolio Career & future of work. Interviewed on Tech Times, Haute Living, LA Magazine, Calcalist and a dozen of podcasts including big names like the Remarkable People by Guy Kawasaki, Entrepreneurs on Fire and more.

✅ LeapCon 2025 was our best reinvention & career conference yet (and LeapCon2026 is shaping to be bigger and grander than my wildest dreams).

✅ Over 10,000 individuals have consumed some version of our training this year, 45,000 are on our email list.

✅ Launched our ‘leap for teams’ version which has been a game changer for teams’ communication, authority & overall performance. With AI we can also measure the ROI so easily.

✅ Our first CEO Presidential Club was launched with access to some of the biggest leaders of our time and operating like a board of directors. This is so exciting!


 Brought clients to famous private islands, dinner and cruises with celebrities and opened up experiences that changed my clients trajectories. Beyond the job, startup or portfolio career - they just see possibilities they never had before.

✅ I turned 50 this year ( ‼️ ) and had some epic experiences: from private jet flights, cycling in India with some mega leaders, scuba diving with my amazing family, traveling to Israel, Dubai, Turks & Caicos, Portugal, Necker Island and many others. I feel insanely lucky every day.

✅ Final phases of my book received blurbs from Richard Branson, Garyvee, President of Starbucks and more!

✅ Signed an agreement with WME which is an agency for the stars. (Preparing for some book tour and podcast in the next year or so.)
As we are welcoming 2026, I want to first thank my family and my team for being by my side through this crazy journey.

What are you grateful for from 2025?

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