Matt
Mason
AI & Technology Strategist · Two Decades at the Frontier
Matt consults companies on how to implement AI workflows that streamline operations and let lean teams move at the speed of much larger organizations. He doesn't teach theory. He builds the systems — then teaches you to run them.
His career spans two decades at the frontier of every major technology wave: Chief Content Officer at BitTorrent (170M monthly users, 30% of global internet traffic at peak), CMO of Kraken (one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges), Studio Head at Sony Pictures Entertainment's innovation lab, and employee #1 at a ConsenSys-backed venture that raised $37M and built platforms for Warner Brothers Discovery, Universal Music, and Damien Hirst.
That background matters: Matt understands how organizations actually work before he touches a single workflow. He knows what breaks when you try to automate something real, and he knows how to build systems that survive contact with a Monday morning. Named #11 on Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, he is the reason non-technical operators can build technical things in this program — and why what gets built actually runs.
Melanie
Jones
Founder, Elevation Chief of Staff Training · The Chief of Staff Coach™
Melanie has spent her career at the intersection of executive talent and organizational performance. As a Chief of Staff recruiter and coach, she has placed and developed CoS professionals at some of the most competitive Series A–C companies in the country — and has seen firsthand what separates the operators who become indispensable from the ones who get buried in logistics.
Through Elevation Chief of Staff Training, she has trained 700+ Chiefs of Staff — from first-time operators stepping into the role to seasoned CoS professionals looking to operate at a higher level. She built the Elevation Chief of Staff Certification because she was tired of watching talented people fail in the role not for lack of skill, but lack of structure.
The AI-Fluent CoS program started when Melanie noticed something: her coaching clients who were using AI well weren't just faster — they were operating in a completely different tier. More strategic. More visible. More indispensable. She wanted every CoS she worked with to have that edge. So she built a program around it.