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Rajkumari Neogy Is Teaching Leaders to Read the Room Beneath the Room
The CEO of ibelong has spent three decades following a stubborn question through Silicon Valley: what changes when leaders treat connection as part of the operating system?
Alignment Theatre Is Expensive
Alignment theatre is the term Hanadi Usman, a PMO director with more than 15 years in enterprise transformation, uses for the gap between what teams say in the steering committee and what they admit in the corridor afterward. The dashboards are green, the sponsors nod, the minutes record consensus, and the program bleeds quietly for six more weeks. Her argument: the fix is not a better reporting framework but psychological safety built into governance design, so surfacing the real picture is safer than protecting the performed one.
ibelong
ibelong is a San Francisco-based consultancy that helps organizations build inclusive, resonant workplace cultures using a neurochemical framework grounded in affective neuroscience, relational neurobiology and epigenetics. Led by CEO and epigenetic coach Rajkumari Neogy, the company translates the brain science of trust and belonging into practical programs - immersive courses, leadership coaching, compassion circles and layoff (RIF) support - aimed at reducing conflict, burnout and turnover. Formerly known as iRestart, ibelong has worked with leaders at more than 175 startups and enterprises.
Balloon
Balloon is a behavioral-science-based collaboration platform that helps teams surface ideas, feedback and insights without groupthink. Through its 'Flights' feature, teams share and evaluate input anonymously and asynchronously, removing the cognitive biases, hierarchy and group dynamics that silence quieter voices in meetings. Founded by public-health researcher Amanda Greenberg and engineer Noah Bornstein, Balloon counts companies like Google, Amazon, Capital One and MasterClass among its users and reports cutting meeting time by roughly 70% while surfacing information that has never been heard inside an organization.
Valence
Valence builds Nadia, an enterprise AI coach deployed across the Fortune 500 to give every employee always-on, personalized leadership and performance coaching. Founded by Parker Mitchell, the New York company pivoted from team-performance software to generative AI coaching after the release of ChatGPT, and now runs 50+ global deployments and more than one million coaching conversations with NPS scores consistently above 90. It raised a $50M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in September 2025.