Fred Kofman
President & Chief Academic Officer

Fred Kofman is Axialent's co-founder and President. An extraordinary teacher and well respected professional, Fred awakens people to act with greater responsibility, integrity and courage; his ideas combine philosophical depth with practical applicability. He has developed and taught programs in leadership, personal mastery, team learning, organizational effectiveness, coaching for managers and coaching for professional coaches for more than 10,000 managers at numerous blue-chip companies.
Fred Kofman holds a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was distinguished as outstanding instructor. He was assistant professor of Management Accounting and Control Systems at MIT's Sloan School of Management, a senior researcher at the Organizational Learning Center, where he worked with Peter Senge, and founding member of the Business Branch of the Integral Institute, where he works with Ken Wilber.
Fred has co-led seminars in the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia and presented his research at MIT’s Sloan School, Harvard University’s Economic Department, Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley, The London School of Economics, the University of Tel Aviv, Universidad de Barcelona, Nanyang Technological Institute of Singapore, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto Technologico de Buenos Aires, and Universidad Francisco Marroquin. He also teaches in Notre Dame’s Executive MBA and non-degree executive education programs.
His work has been published in The Fifth Discipline Field Book, "The Journal of Organizational Dynamics", "Management Science" and "Econometrica" earning him prizes and international recognition. He is the author of the trilogy Metamanagement and the audio program Conscious Business.

In his spare time, Fred enjoys very much traveling and outdoor activities having run eight marathons, climbed Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, scuba-dived with sharks and dolphins in Honduras and Mexico, and trekked for several weeks in Nepal and Thailand. Fred has six children, and lives with his wife in Boulder, Colorado.<