The human-native
AI platform for leadership development.

Strengthen manager and team performance at scale with AI coaching, roleplay, and team experiences in one platform—customized to your company, and integrated with your tools.

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30% increase in manager effectiveness
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18% boost in employee retention
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Global CTO-led deployment
5–10x
ROI within year one
Customer-reported · 2026
30%
Boost in employee retention
RT customer data · 2026
60%
Lift in team engagement scores
RT customer data · 2026
100%
Pass rate, enterprise security reviews
SOC 2 Type 2 · GDPR · CCPA
OUR DEFINING PRINCIPLE

What it means to be
human-native

We believe AI is meant to amplify human judgment, not bypass it. Every product decision we make starts with one question: does this make people more capable, or more dependent? We build AI that develops manager instinct, strengthens team trust, and compounds human potential over time.

A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO
The market is full of AI that talks at managers. We built AI that grows them.

I spent 25+ years leading teams at Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Change.org with access to the best executive coaching available, but none of it was scalable for the managers on my team.

Most managers get generic training that treats everyone the same. That doesn't work. Great leadership development has to be personal, and no HR team can deliver that at scale.

Rising Team delivers AI that knows each manager, meets them where they are, and builds a growth plan that's truly theirs— real personalized development that drives behavior change you can actually see.

What makes us different is that we're a human-native AI company. We design AI to deepen human connection, not replace it. We're the only AI coaching company that also incorporates team-building, giving leaders real insight into their specific people so they're not just growing as individuals, they're getting better at leading the team in front of them.

That's the thing I always wanted and could never find, so we built it. Because every manager at every level deserves the tools to bring out the best in the people around them.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO · Rising Team
WHAT WE BELIEVE
AI COACHING IS A STARTING POINT, NOT A SYSTEM

A single coaching conversation doesn't change how a manager shows up on Monday. Real development requires a personalized growth plan, realistic roleplay, and team sessions all working together. That's the difference between insight and actual behavior change.

YOUR TEAM CONTEXT IS THE REAL UNLOCK

Most AI coaching lets you describe who you are. Rising Team actually knows who your people are: their names, their working styles, their motivators. Development grounded in your real team produces leaders who show up differently.

TEAMS ARE WHERE GROWTH BECOMES REAL

The best individual coaching in the world doesn't matter if it never reaches the team. We connect manager development directly to team performance, because that's where leadership either works or it doesn't.

PEOPLE SHOULD CONTROL WHAT THEY SHARE WITH AI

Trust isn't a feature. It's the foundation. If managers don't feel safe being honest with AI, the development doesn't work. Every manager and team member controls exactly what they share with Arti, because psychological safety isn't optional. It's the whole point.

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Built by people who've done the work

Operators and AI builders from Google, Meta, McKinsey, and Yahoo! who spent years studying what makes managers and organizations effective, and who now build the AI systems to scale it.

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Jennifer Dulski
FOUNDER & CEO

Jennifer has spent more than 25 years building AI products and leading large organizations at Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Change.org. Her first startup was acquired by Google in 2011 for its machine learning and Natural Language Processing technology, and she went on to lead large AI organizations at both Google and Meta, where her team focused on understanding, recommending, and ensuring the safety of content in Facebook Groups.

She founded Rising Team and built Arti, its AI leadership coach, to fulfill a vision she had carried for years: using AI to develop confident, high-performing leaders and teams at scale. She teaches Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business and is the bestselling author of Purposeful.

• Head of Groups & Community · Facebook
• Global Head of Product, Shopping · Google
• President & COO · Change.org
• Group Vice President · Yahoo!
• Lecturer · Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Bestselling author · Purposeful
Jeff Yang
Chief Technology & AI Officer

Jeff has spent the past decade building AI systems that drive growth at massive scale. At Facebook, he founded the growth organization for Facebook Groups and built its first six machine learning teams, growing it into a 100+ person org connecting tens of millions of people with communities they cared about. At Rising Team, he leads the engineering and AI organization behind Arti, architecting the systems that deliver personalized leadership development for managers and teams.

Previously: Meta · Hulu · Google
Tanya Herrgott
Chief Design Officer

Tanya brings 20 years of building high-impact experiences for millions of users at Facebook, Hot Studio, Razorfish, and PeopleSoft. She's driven by the conviction that AI should elevate human potential rather than replace it, and channels that belief into creating experiences that build trust, connection, and growth. At Rising Team, she leads design for the full Arti experience, from onboarding to team sessions.

Previously: Facebook (Meta) · Hot Studio · Razorfish · PeopleSoft
Ryan Starks
VP of Growth & Marketing

Ryan builds categories for AI products that change how people work. At Qventus, he led category creation for AI-powered healthcare operations, driving adoption across major health systems; before that, he partnered with Fortune 500 CXOs at Innosight to design enterprise AI transformation strategies. At Rising Team, he leads marketing for the future of AI leadership development.

Previously: Qventus · Stanford Medicine · Innosight
Whitney Armstrong
Head of Data & Analytics

Whitney is a data and analytics leader with experience spanning Upwork, Crunchyroll, and Yahoo!, and a certified executive leadership coach. That rare combination gives her a unique perspective on AI-driven leadership development: she understands how to measure it and what it actually takes for people to grow. At Rising Team, she builds the measurement frameworks that make AI's impact on managers and teams concrete and credible.

Previously: Upwork · Crunchyroll · Indiegogo · Yahoo!
Willie Thompson
General Manager

Willie leads Rising Team's nonprofit and K-12 education strategy, pairing deep sector expertise with a conviction that AI should expand human agency, not just productivity. Before Rising Team, he advised organizations at The Bridgespan Group including YMCA of the USA and Year Up United, and holds an MBA and master's in education from Stanford. At Rising Team, he has built the nonprofit and education business from the ground up.

Previously: The Bridgespan Group · Reach University
Austin Ngau
Chief of Staff

Austin has spent over a decade helping organizations scale AI. At Meta, he led machine learning programs across growth, ranking, integrity, and safety, managing 650+ data annotators across 10 countries to ensure the quality of training data behind some of Meta's most widely used models. At Archipelago, an AI-powered risk platform, he led Product and ML teams building automation across millions of properties and trillions in insured value.

Previously: Meta, Archipelago Analytics, Fitsme, Xantrion Inc
Romi Elan
Head of Operations

Romi's career has always sat at the intersection of people, strategy, and technology. At McKinsey & Company and Quid, an AI-driven text intelligence platform, he gained firsthand experience in how data and AI can sharpen decision-making for the world's largest organizations. At Rising Team, he leads operations and people, from compliance and tooling to customer experience.

Previously: McKinsey & Co · Quid · WeTravel · SoulPlay
Mitch Braig
Sr. Enterprise Account Executive

Mitch has spent 15+ years at the forefront of enterprise technology, focused on systems integration and workflow automation. As AI has emerged as a transformative force, he has partnered with executive teams evaluating, deploying, and scaling AI within their organizations. His work with leaders navigating workforce transformation and organizational change gives him broad insight into the opportunities and best practices that shape successful AI adoption.

Previously: Blanchard Systems
WHERE WE’RE GOING

Our vision for the future of leadership

We are at the beginning of a generational shift in how organizations develop leaders.

NOW
Every manager gets a personal AI trainer

Personalized coaching, real practice, and measurable results at a scale no L&D team can match alone.

NEAR TERM
Leadership development becomes a system, not an event

Continuous, connected, and measured—from individual growth plans to team health to business outcomes.

LONG TERM
Human judgment gets stronger as AI gets smarter

AI amplifies what makes leaders great: judgment, empathy, the ability to inspire. Organizations that invest now will be impossible to catch.

BACKED BY

Investors who believe people are the competitive advantage

ZEAL Capital Partners
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Plus an outstanding group of individual investors and advisors.

The future of leadership is
human-native AI. Is your org ready?

Join the CHROs, CTOs, and people leaders at Google Cloud, Fanatics, Bank of Hawaii, and more who chose Rising Team.