The most dangerous person in your career isn't your boss, your competitor, or the economy. It's the version of you that shows up under pressure.
Alina Doran has spent 25 years leading transformations inside organizations, including Disney, Paramount, and The New York Times, where she watched brilliant people unknowingly become their own biggest obstacle. Those experiences led her to create Animal Intelligence™, a leadership system taught at UC Berkeley Haas, NY Tech Week VC forum, WeWork, and industry associations, that helps people recognize and recalibrate the instinctive patterns that quietly drive decisions, relationships, and performance when the stakes are highest.
Today, Alina helps leaders and organizations avoid the hidden costs of reactive leadership, from lost trust and disengagement to turnover, missed opportunities, and burnout. Her clients include leaders at J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Strava, Sound Transit, and the Office of the Surgeon General of California. She is the Founder and CEO of Highline Leadership and the speaker behind the TEDx talk Animal in the Mirror: How Smart Leaders Can Tame Self-Sabotage.
