Kenneth Berger
First product manager at Slack. Now an executive coach for startup founders and leaders. Core focus: asking for what you want — a practice he treats as the foundation of integrity, sustainable work, and effective leadership.
Known for the “ask framework”: identify what you want, overcome resistance to asking, state it clearly, and treat the response as data. Argues that complaints are compressed requests, and that most people skip the listening step that makes asking iterative rather than transactional. Was fired and re-hired at Slack multiple times as the company’s culture and stage changed.