Dessy Levinson is a founder, executive coach, creative director, investor, and author who excels at combinatorial approaches to solving human puzzles. She is the creator of the CRATE Framework, a multi-level methodology designed to help individuals tame overwhelm and cultivate meaningful resilience.With a career spanning advertising, venture capital, innovation, and entrepreneurship, Dessy brings a deep understanding of relational dynamics, with special emphasis on internal and external narratives. Dessy has served as Creative Director for Fortune 500 brands in consumer goods and entertainment and was Managing Director at 645 Ventures, where she specialized in frontier investments (VR/AR/ML) and consumer brands. She is currently hard at work on CRATE: a technology-enabled framework for emotion integration.Additionally, Dessy is a founding board member of IDiF, the Center for Innovation on DEI in Finance, board member at Healthworx Studio, serves on the advisory board of WXR Fund, has been a masterclass instructor and pod leader at Declare, and a mentor at RLab, ERA, WeWork Labs, TechStars, Combine Accelerator, The French-American CreativeLab, and Cornell Tech's Startup Studio. She is trained in Relational Life Therapy (RLT) and is a professional member of the International Coach Federation, the American Psychological Association, and the Neuropsychoanalysis Society.