Ari Jason
I'm Ari Jason, a business strategy leader, leadership development facilitator and relationship coach with a mission to helping people define and build their legacy.
I work with business leaders, individuals and couples, reach their goals and live with purpose, and meaningful through intentional thought and action.
My Approach and Promise:
Whether you're a CEO looking to build a more connected team and culture, a couple seeking to strengthen your bond, or an individual navigating personal growth, I offer you tools that are both evidence-based and personally tested. The frameworks I provide aren't theoretical—they're the same ones that transformed my own marriage, health, and career.
Professional Experience.
Personal Journey.
Through my personal journey, I began a quest to seek answers to big questions. What started as a passion based on personal need, transitioned quickly into founding a mental fitness digital startup ‘gym for the mind', a path which guided me through a multi-year exploration of deep research and discovery into seeking understanding of human motivation and meaningful wellbeing. Combined with my research study, I sought out guidance, wisdom and mentorship, learning from scholars of psychology, Kabbalah, Shamanism, philosophy, and immersed myself in training extensively as a life coach so I could put these theories into practice. Today I am on a mission to expand my growth and training to serve those around me.
My Personal Journey
From Separation to Connection
My path to coaching was solidified through my personal relationship crisis. After years of marriage, my wife and I found ourselves separated for two years, standing at the edge of divorce. What seemed like an ending became the catalyst for profound transformation, leading us back to each other with a bond that is now unbreakable.
Like many professionals, I had prioritized work over my relationship for years. As a management consultant, I traveled frequently, sometimes for extended periods, and even when physically home, I remained mentally absent—working long hours and neglecting the emotional foundation of our marriage. The combination of misplaced priorities and underdeveloped emotional and relational intelligence eventually led to our separation.
This challenging chapter forced me to confront a difficult truth: I wasn't living a fulfilling life, and something needed to change urgently. What began as a period of deep reflection evolved into an unrelenting passion to understand the inner workings of the mind and human relationships.
From Physical Transformation to Mental Fitness
My journey of transformation began early on, as a weight loss journey in 2012, weighing 126kg, I received an unexpected challenge from a friend, to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for charity. What seemed like an impossible task became a powerful catalyst for change.
Over many months, I lost 44kg, 1 KG at a time, through a combination of strategic goal-setting, professional trainers, accountability partnerships, and tracking incremental progress. This physical transformation taught me invaluable lessons that would later inform my coaching methodology:
The power of expert guidance: From physiotherapists and fitness trainers which accelerated my progress
The importance of daily tracking: Calorie and weight loss tracking created visibility and motivation
Goal-setting as a compass: Having Kilimanjaro as my North Star provided direction and purpose
The effectiveness of small increments: Focusing on losing just 1kg at a time made the journey manageable
The necessity of accountability: Weekly check-ins with my training partner kept me consistent and celebrated wins.
Professional Expertise
With over two decades of international business leadership experience across the US, UK, and Israel, I bring a comprehensive understanding of organizational dynamics to my coaching and consulting practice.
Through my career, I have guided C-level execs to build high-performance teams and businesses, scaled a US distributor from $5M to $150M, built an enterprise wellbeing digital startup, addressing the $150Bn organizational "presenteeism", chaired a national NGO, and where my leadership vision was shaped early on through executive roles managing global business transformation initiatives, multi-nationls such as Colt Telecom managing, Bloomberg LP and CitiGroup.
My approach bridges personal growth and empathic leadership, serving clients as both strategic advisor, coach and consigliere. This dual expertise allows me to share relational intelligence skills and strategies that strengthen bonds that impact legacies, for business leaders and individual relationships to drive transformational impact in both professional and personal contexts.
Business Leadership and Career Highlights
Held executive roles at Colt Telecom and managed transformation initiatives for Bloomberg LP and CitiGroup
Led strategic operations of a US distributor from $5M to $150M in annual revenue
Chaired a national NGO, bringing leadership vision to the non-profit sector
Spearheaded transformation initiatives yielding 15% cost reduction across a $2Bn enterprise
Founded Mind Inc., developing frameworks addressing the $150Bn organizational "presenteeism" challenge
Coaching Experience
My transition to professional coaching is backed by extensive training and practice:
300+ hours of billed professional coaching with couples and business leaders
150 hours of formal coach training with the Jerusalem Coaching Institute
IMAGO facilitator certification (Level 1 completed, 200+ training hours)
500+ hours of immersion in peer-reviewed clinical research on mental fitness and relationship dynamics.
Leadership Development ROI
Coaching is the powerful force multiplier. With research on executive coaching methodologies shows consistent delivery of measurable business outcomes:
788% ROI on executive coaching investments
Cost of employee turnover approximates 26% of pre-tax income
Job satisfaction improving by 61%
Team productivity increases by up to 88%
Working relationships strengthen with direct reports (70%)
As your coach, I help you develop the relational intelligence that underpins truly effective leadership, creating an enviable business culture.
