Joshua Spodek

Joshua Spodek

Joshua Spodek is a two-time TEDx speaker, hosts the Leadership and the Environment podcast, and is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, columnist for Inc., founder of SpodekAcademy.com, and bestselling author.

He has spoken on leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and sales at Harvard, West Point, Princeton, MIT, the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA, and studied under a Nobel laureate. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures, and holds six patents.

He earned praise as “Best and Brightest” (Esquire Magazine’s Genius Issue), “Astrophysicist turned new media whiz” (NBC), and “Rocket Scientist” (ABC News and Forbes) and has been quoted and profiled by ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, and has done burpees daily since 2011.