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Ken Favaro, Stanford University

Ken Favaro is head of act 2, LLC, an advisory firm for CEOs, executive teams, and boards. He is also co-founder of LucyAI, a digital agent for innovators, Chief Strategy Officer of BERA.ai, an online platform for brand builders, and a guest instructor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Ken graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering (Phi Beta Kappa) and a Masters of Business Administration (Arjay Miller Scholar). He cut his teeth at Bain & Company and then spent the bulk of his consulting career at Marakon Associates during which he was CEO for six years. After Marakon, Ken joined Booz & Company (now Strategy& PwC) to lead its global strategy practice for six years.

Ken is co-author of The Three Tensions, author of Real Strategy, and co-author of four feature articles in Harvard Business Review.