"Giving back to Columbia is a thank you to the School for taking a chance on me and helping me become the CEO I am today.”
Columbia Community Connections
Simon, a member of the Board of Overseers, also serves on the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate’s MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board and Real Estate Forum.
On How Columbia Shaped His Career
“Coming from Indiana to a great school in New York City significantly helped my professional development. The School’s academics and students are second to none.”
Bringing More to the Table
I earned my medical degree at Howard University and began my career as a primary care physician. Over time, my responsibilities grew; I became medical director of the practice, then associate chief medical officer for the group of practices. I grew more interested in the business side of medicine and realized that there was more to being a physician than just seeing patients. I wanted to be able to bring more to the table.
Ideal Client: My ideal client values outside advice and coaching, and is seeking a coach soon after realizing he or she could use some help reaching his or her career objectives. These goals might include getting promoted, becoming profitable in a new venture, finding a job, or mastering corporate politics. My ideal client has his or her share of doubts, but is ready to work hard and is open to change.
Ideal Client: A professional who is looking beyond this job search or promotion to their long-term leadership development.
CBS alums are high achievers. Still, it can take time to truly find your voice and the influence to navigate success. Across industry and level, clients use the Clear Strategy Career Clarity program to understand:
Starting Out
“After business school I returned to the West Coast, and my brother and I founded Microline Software. We sold it in 1997, started Speedera Networks, then formed Industry Ventures in 2000 to invest in technology-related investments. When the dot-com bubble burst, we saw an opportunity to create a secondary venture capital market and began buying the investment portfolios, private shares, and partnership interests from their original investors who needed liquidity. Now, Industry Ventures has more than $3 billion in assets under management.”
Ideal Client: I work with ambitious clients throughout their professional lives. My niche is optimizing career transitions, viewing them as opportunities for both professional and personal growth. I have a longstanding track record of helping individuals identify and conquer unproductive patterns of behavior to achieve their career goals. I combine a unique background in business and psychology with enormous personal energy, genuine curiosity, optimism and integrity to help craft solutions to the most challenging career obstacles.