Today’s guest is Ali Schultz. Ali is a co-founder, coach, and facilitator at Reboot, a coaching company that provides comprehensive offerings to serve leadership development for individuals, teams, and entire organizations. If you’re a tech entrepreneur or venture capitalist, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Reboot. They’ve worked with companies like Etsy, Lyft, and Twilio and venture capitalists from firms such as Union Square Ventures, Accel, and the Foundry Group. Ali and her three co-founders started Reboot in 2014 to foster a revolution around work – that work doesn’t have to destroy us. Work can be the way that we achieve our fullest self. Prior to co-founding Reboot, Ali worked for more than a dozen years in business as an operator managing projects, teams, and human resources, and developing brands. With a Masters degree in religious studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ali has studied Transformational NLP at NLP Marin, completed the facilitator program at the Center for Collaborative Awareness, and is a certified EQUUS Experience Facilitator in Equine Facilitated Coaching. Ali seamlessly and deftly weaves together her business acumen with the innate wisdom of the body, the philosophies of the world’s wisdom traditions, and the way of the horse to help clients find their voice so that they can find themselves. In this interview, we discuss her early exploration into wisdom and spirituality, her corporate world experience, what it means to be a coach, equine-facilitated coaching, and all things Reboot.

Timestamps

00:03:11 Growing up and upbringing in Wisconsin

00:06:36 What sparked her interest in horses

00:09:16 When did her exploration into wisdom, spirituality, soul etc. begin?

00:17:57 How was she able to pursue wisdom and spirituality in her formal education?

00:25:10 First couple of jobs after college in tech startups

00:29:19 Meeting her Reboot co-founder Jerry Colonna

00:32:16 What sparked her interest in coaching?

00:38:28 What is the role of a coach?

00:42:28 Reboot overview and her role

00:43:40 Different services that Reboot provides

00:46:26 Most common challenges leaders come to Reboot with

00:50:56 Work can be the way that we achieve our fullest self

00:55:11 The "hamster wheel"

00:56:36 Success stories through Reboot coaching

01:03:07 Equine facilitated coaching

01:07:24 What would an equine facilitated coaching session look like?

01:11:53 Adjusting to the pandemic

01:13:56 How the pandemic has amplified some of the challenges that companies face

01:17:03 Strategies that are effective in preventing burnout

01:22:03 What she wants to accomplish 5 years from now

01:22:55 Her daily routine

01:24:49 Her driving force

01:26:24 Parting words of wisdom around maintaining well-being as a working professional