Nick Kennedy

Entrepreneur/Author/Business Coach

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Nick Kennedy is a serial entrepreneur and an executive life coach with over twenty years of experience building successful ventures. After accumulating over two million airline miles traveling for work while losing hours of productivity and family time, Nick founded RISE in 2014. A private airline, RISE created a two-sided marketplace that connected busy business executives with private plane operators to redefine travel in order to regain control of wasted time. By its acquisition by Surf Air in 2017, RISE had served thousands of travelers with private flying services.

Prior to RISE, Nick began his career as a business development manager for EDS. After serving He then to building multiple healthcare-centered businesses, including Galvanon (acquired by NCR), Global Health Grid and eviti, Inc. (both acquired by NantHealth, Inc. Now as a coach for high-power executives with over four thousand hours of experience, he helps stuck executives become fully integrated spouses, parents, and business people.

Nick was named a 2017 EY Entrepreneur of the Year, awarded Dallas Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, and serves as a Capital Factory mentor and on the boards of several companies.. He has been featured in NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, D Magazine, Texas Monthly, Dallas News, and the Dallas Business Journal.

Nick splits his time between Texas and Colorado, along with his wife and three kids. Learn more at www.nickkennedycoaching.com.

‣ Co-founder and CEO RISE (acquired by Surf Air)
‣ Over 5,000 hours of coaching experience
‣ Author of The Good Entrepreneur
‣ EY Entrepreneur of the Year
‣ EY Hall of Fame Inductee
‣ Capital Factory Mentor
‣ Serial Entrepreneur
‣ Ironman Finisher
‣ Micro-retired
‣ Husband
‣ Father
‣ Friend