Rethinking Employee Education with Jason Lavender
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Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hustle-grind-podcast/id1745209794
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1oHavOVLIg4r8jNjY2Sz51
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nickelcitylearningsolutions
Episode Number: 66
Release Date: Dec 20, 2024
Bio:
Jason Lavender, Co-Founder and CEO of Electives, began his career at Towers Perrin as an actuarial intern. Through a few mergers and a decade of HR consulting, Jason had the good fortune of working with a long list of mentors internally and externally. In his last three years in consulting, Jason led the Health Innovation team for North America, facilitating ideation sprints with HR teams, developing new products internally and working with 100s of digital health tech startups every year.
While working with health tech entrepreneurs, Jason joined the Buoy commercial team to help improve healthcare navigation for employees. He spent 2+ years at Buoy and loved every minute of it.
In 2015, Jason joined NextGen Ventures as a health tech subject matter expert and investor, investing in Limbix Health and Sea Machines Robotics. In 2017, he founded The Players’ Impact, an angel investment group of brilliant people, who all happened to be professional athletes. They have invested in CNote, NRG (eSports), Draft Kings, Triller, SidelineSwap, Mars Reel, CircleUp, Robinhood, Omelas, and more.
Jason attended the MIT Sloan School of Management and obtained his MBA in 2020. He met Krikor Dzeronian at MIT and together they founded Electives, the live learning solution for lean People teams who are frustrated with traditional corporate training.
To learn more about Jason:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasontlavender/
Book Recommendation:
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
That book was incredibly powerful, offering a deep dive into the psychology of human behavior with concepts like anchors and decoys—things we navigate daily in both personal and professional life. It sparked a desire in me to keep reading more broadly on self-help and business, which is now practically all I reach for.