Beth Polish started her career in a small advanced-research group at D&B, reporting to the CTO. She was a pioneer in the New York tech community – founding COO/CFO of iVillage, president of Dreamlife (co-founded with Tony Robbins and backed by Allen & Co.), managing director at KPMG working with clients’ digital initiatives, and CFO of Goldman Sachs Ventures.   She has wide deal experience as an investment banker and as a partner with a venture firm, and she has negotiated game-changing strategic partnerships and raised $300+MM from leading institutional and strategic investors.At Hearst Corp., reporting to the CEO, Beth created and for 5 years led Hearst Corporate Innovation, fostering a company-wide culture of innovation and knowledge-sharing, building bridges at all levels across seven siloed business groups, and establishing a pipeline of internally-generated ideas for new digital businesses.Beth is a big-picture thinker who can see and communicate the essence of business opportunities and effective strategies for making them happen. She brings to her work as consultant and coach years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive at the intersection of media, entertainment, information, and digital transformation, informed by the anthropology-based perspective of looking at the world through other people’s eyes. She is certified in Stakeholder Centered Coaching.As founder of The Critical Junctures Group Beth works closely with senior decision makers to help them find the insights and strategies they need to navigate through critical junctures. Her goal is to consistently provide vision, create value, and produce results. Representative engagements include a big-data analytics company working with a Fortune 100 client and the UK’s largest weight-loss company.Beth speaks around the country and internationally, including at the Stockholm School of Economics, the European Journalism Centre, and Best Buy, and for years was an adjunct professor at NYU.Beth was a producer of PBS’s An American Tribute to Vaclav Havel, Farm Aid IV, and 3 Grammy-nominated children’s programs.  Board memberships include UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, WAHVE, and What Will It Take Movements, and was selected out of over 16,000 global applicants to participate in Dr. Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches Program. She has an AB in anthropology from Franklin and Marshall College and an MBA from Harvard.