faculty
Every NewForum instructor holds an active role in the function they teach. No academics. No career consultants. People doing the work this week, teaching what they know because they use it.
the bench
Faculty are recruited per cohort. Names and bios are shared with applicants once they're admitted — partly to protect faculty time before commitment, partly because we match faculty to cohort composition. Three things are constant.
No academics, no career consultants, no people who left the function five years ago. Every instructor is currently in a senior role doing the work they teach.
Faculty are at VP, Director, CFO, CHRO, COO, or Chief of Staff level. People with the perspective to say what AI doesn't do well, not just what it does.
A finance cohort gets a CFO or Head of FP&A. A marketing cohort gets a VP / Senior Director. We don't have generalist trainers covering six functions; we have practitioner faculty per function.
faculty roles, by function
Marketing — VP / Senior Director, Brand & Demand
Finance — CFO / Head of FP&A
Operations — VP Operations / Head of Supply Chain
HR & Talent — CHRO / Head of Talent
Executive Leadership — operating CEO / Board Director
Administration — Chief of Staff / Head of EA
Leads brand and demand generation at a top-10 US consumer goods company. Builds AI-driven attribution and content systems across retail, DTC, and trade channels. Teaches the marketing cohort.
Runs paid acquisition and lifecycle for a public B2B SaaS company. Has rebuilt the lead-scoring and outbound stack around generative models. Teaches the marketing cohort.
Sitting CFO at a PE-backed industrial services firm. Rebuilt FP&A, variance, and board reporting around AI tooling. Teaches the finance cohort.
Leads FP&A at a multi-billion-dollar asset manager. Specializes in forecasting, scenario modeling, and AI-augmented investment memo workflows. Teaches the finance cohort.
Runs operations across multiple plants for a US manufacturer. Implementing predictive maintenance and supplier-risk tooling. Teaches the operations cohort.
Owns supply chain for a healthcare distribution company. Has deployed AI for demand sensing, S&OP, and contract review at scale. Teaches the operations cohort.
Sitting CHRO at a professional services firm with 5,000+ employees. Built the AI-assisted hiring, performance, and learning stack from scratch. Teaches the HR & Talent cohort.
Leads talent at a Series D scale-up. Specializes in AI-augmented sourcing, structured interviewing, and capability planning. Teaches the HR & Talent cohort.
Operating CEO across multiple PE-portfolio companies. Has overseen AI rollouts in finance, marketing, and ops at three separate firms. Teaches the executive cohort.
Independent director on multiple public-company boards. Focuses on governance, risk oversight, and AI assurance for audit committees. Teaches the executive cohort.
Chief of Staff to a public-company CEO. Runs the executive operating cadence; rebuilt board prep, all-hands, and exec comms with AI tooling. Teaches the administration cohort.
Runs the EA function and Office of the CEO at a major asset manager. Built the AI-augmented inbox, scheduling, and knowledge-base workflows used across the C-suite. Teaches the administration cohort.
teach with newforum
We're always looking for practitioner faculty. Senior role, active in the function, willing to teach a small cohort — get in touch.
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