Leadership & Life Coach, author, innovator

Bruce Kasanoff helps people walk their path.

He has spent decades in the company of language… six books, half a million readers, 15 years as the unnamed writer behind other people's voices. A Wharton MBA with a practical craft: how to grow by helping others, how to say what you mean. Useful work. Honest work.

But the resume was never the point.

What people discover when they sit with Bruce is harder to name. He listens beneath the words to the experiences trying to surface. He clears away the noise—the explaining, the hedging, the borrowed opinions—until a single true thing is left standing in the room.

People are often surprised by what emerges from them. Unexpected clarity. A deeper conviction. Radical truths.

Don't expect Bruce to hand you answers. Instead, he walks beside you until what's been waiting finally surfaces.

Most people, he'll tell you, don't need more advice. They need to slow down, tell the truth and remember what they already know.

The work has carried him somewhere deeper than career. These days he's as drawn to the heart as the head. He cherishes presence, connection, and the quiet conviction that we are more than we were taught to believe we are.

He travels often between Bend, Oregon and New York City. He needs both: being in the “room where it happens” and reconnecting with the quietest aspects of nature and humanity.

Throughout much of his life, Bruce has been more of a lone wolf than a member of a tribe. Since 2018, he has been a proud member of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches program, and he fully embraces its mandate to be of the greatest possible service to others. That has become his tribe.

On the most fundamental level, Bruce helps entrepreneurs be coherent, inside and out. It’s not about being more logical. It means trusting your heart as much as your head, knowing what most needs tending today, while never losing sight of what matters most over the entire span of your journey.

Half a million subscribers read Bruce’s six newsletters, which include:

• Mountain Minute—how to grow your career by helping others

• Meditate for Peace—over 87,000 souls around the world who meditate daily for peace

• Bruce Kasanoff on Substack—his most personal and provocative writings go here

• Distill the Real You—get closer to who and what you were meant to be.

Bruce has written six books, including…

How to Self-Promote without Being a Jerk is about doing well by doing good.

Never Tell People What You Do is about learning to say what you want, instead of merely telling people what you have done so far.

I Am is a meditative and enriching workbook co-authored with Amy Blaschka.