
Jay Goldman
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and CEO, Sensei Labs · NYT Bestselling Co-author of The Decoded Company
Jay Goldman is a technologist, designer, speaker, and author who has spent his career at the intersection of people, data, and the systems that help organizations achieve big things.
Jay is the co-founder and CEO of Sensei Labs, where he has spent the last decade building Conductor®, the AI-powered strategy execution platform that connects strategic plans to the people, projects, and KPIs that make them real. Built for EPMOs, enterprise transformation, and PE value creation teams, Conductor has grown under his leadership from a bold idea about how work should work into a category-defining platform trusted by global enterprises, leading consultancies, and private equity firms to execute their most complex initiatives — from post-merger integrations and value creation programs to enterprise-wide transformations orchestrating billions of dollars in program value.
He is the co-author of The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers (Portfolio/Penguin), a New York Times bestseller that made the case for data-driven leadership long before it became conventional wisdom — a thesis that runs through everything Conductor does today. His writing and thinking on technology, leadership, and the future of work have appeared in Harvard Business Review and beyond, and he is a sought-after keynote speaker on strategy execution, transformation, and building data-driven organizations.
Jay is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. Before founding Sensei Labs, he built a career spanning product design, engineering, and executive leadership, which is a rare combination that shapes Conductor's obsession with tools that are as delightful to use as they are powerful.
He's a proud Canadian who lives in Toronto with his family, where he remains a hands-on builder: still designing, still coding, and still convinced that the best software disappears into the work it enables.
Recent Podcast Appearances

Leadership Evolution: Insights from Sensei Labs on Growing Teams and Company Culture
In this episode of the Human Side of Business Podcast, Jay Goldman, co-founder and CEO of Sensei Labs, shares his journey of leadership and scaling companies.

Optimizing Private Equity Success with Conductor: Insights from Jay Goldman
In this episode, Jay shares his insights on private equity value creation, operational efficiency, and emerging trends in the investment landscape.

Why Digital Transformation Often Fails: the Digital Transformation Podcast
In this episode of the Digital Transformation Podcast, Jay Goldman dives into why transformation efforts often miss the mark and what businesses can do to increase their odds of success.
Resources by Jay

Forbes: Transformation Transformed: Welcome To The Enterprise Orchestration Era
Transformation is a fail state. It’s not a reward or an exciting new opportunity. It’s recognition that the world has changed and you’ve failed to change with it. The leading companies taking your customers and market share exist in a constant state of evolution that recognizes and celebrates our new “survival of the fastest” reality.

Thoughts on closing our Series A
We're thrilled to share that we’ve closed our Series A investment, led by Plymouth Growth, to give us the capital required to drive our continued expansion and product development.

5 Top Problems with Project Management, Part 4: One Source of Truth
On the plus side, today’s internet-connected world of laptops and smartphones means we have tons of choice about how and where to work. On the down side, that means every team has ten ways to communicate, five different ways to track status, and a long digital trail stretching behind them littered with abandoned SharePoint sites, intranets, and cloud file storage solutions.

5 Top Problems with Project Management, Part 3: Breaking the Cycle
The role of Project Manager in most organizations is frustrating. It can quickly feel like an endless cycle filled with what Lean experts might call ‘waste’.

5 Top Problems with Project Management, Part 2: The Illusion of Control
Project Management as a concept arguably started the first time a bunch of humans tried to accomplish some goal together.

5 Top Problems with Traditional Project Management, Part 1: Old Tools, New Rules
Project Management tools are easy to rag on — they’re one of those categories of software that are almost universally despised by the people who have to use them.
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