Leadership Expertise:

Ari is the founding partner of Mind Ventures and Mind Shift, serving his clients as an executive coach and strategic consultant working with C-suite executives, team leaders, and entrepreneurs. His coaching methodology helps clients build thriving teams and organizations that people enjoy working at, while balancing personal and professional wellbeing.

What distinguishes Ari's coaching approach is his integration of strategy with deep emotional intelligence and relational leadership. He serves as coach, trusted advisor, and confidant to leaders navigating the complexities of modern business while maintaining personal fulfillment and family relationships, strengthening skills whether you're presenting to the board, leading teams or connecting with your family at home

Throughout his career, Ari has partnered with visionary leaders, managers and individuals across diverse industry sectors and cultures.

Professional Accomplishments:

• Scale & Growth: Guided NYC business from $5M to $150M revenue (29.9% CAGR over 8 years)

• Operational Excellence: Achieved 50%+ infrastructure cost reduction for Fortune 500 clients including Citi, Ford Motors EU, and Bloomberg

• Global Optimization: Delivered 15% cost savings across 13-country, $2B operation through strategic restructuring and risk management

• Innovation Leadership: Founded digital mental fitness platform addressing the $150B employee engagement crisis

• Nonprofit Transformation: Led Israel Epilepsy Association turnaround, achieving 5x funding increase within 18 months through board restructure and visibility strategy

Personal Life

However, Ari's most powerful transformations weren't in business, they were personal, where he:

• Rebuilt his marriage after two years apart

• Lost 80 pounds slowly and steadily without shortcuts

• Relocated his family to a new country and culture

• Made a career pivot that realigned his work with his life purpose

What began as his own transformative journey, evolved into years of intensive study across psychology, ancient wisdom traditions, and human behavior, where Ari discovered his calling as a coach and mentor.

Ari's unique approach combines traditional coaching methodologies with learnings from positive psychology, Kabbalah, and shamanic teachings. Ari also founded a mental fitness startup - "a gym for the mind" - gaining deep insights, understanding and expertise in human motivation, habit formation, and sustainable behavior change.

Today, Ari helps high-achievers and growth seekers break through and unlock their full potential through evidence-based coaching that honors both scientific research and timeless wisdom. His commitment to continuous learning ensures clients receive the most current and effective strategies for lasting transformation.

These experiences taught him that real change doesn't come from willpower alone - it requires clarity, self-awareness, emotional honesty, accountability, and resilience. He understands the human side of leadership because he's lived it.

Level of Excellence

Ari earned his degree in London, and advanced his business training from Harvard Business School. Ari also received advanced training as a coach from the prestigious Jerusalem Coaching Institute, and furthered his coaching studies mastering relationships as a an IMAGO L1 facilitator which Ari brings to every engagement, ensuring measurable results . He coaches clients navigating:

• Executive leadership, uncertainty and career transitions

• Personal relationships and team dynamics

• Burnout, imposter syndrome, and decision fatigue

• Purpose-driven reinvention and retirement

His clients experience breakthrough clarity, enhanced team performance, and accelerated growth through his unique blend of strategic rigor and emotional intelligence.