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Alex Bell
I help people see what their first story might be missing.
Executive leadership. Writing, speaking, and consequential conversations.
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How he thinks
When I was about 19, my mentor Horace Allen was driving me back to my dorm at Hobart. Out of nowhere, he said: “You’re going to go to Kellogg one day.”
I asked: “The cereal?”
I had never heard of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Years later, my EMBA classmates voted me to give the student address at Kellogg.
The question that keeps showing up:
What am I missing?
Range
Harlem → Hobart → the NFL → GE and Synchrony → Kellogg.
I’m still in executive leadership today. Writing, speaking, teaching, and consequential conversations are becoming a bigger part of the work I want to do. The professional experience is part of what made that possible.
Selected recognition
A few markers that help place the story, not a résumé.
- Kellogg EMBA Student Address (peer-selected)
- Kellogg Guest Lecturer
- Former New York Giants Player (2005)
- Hobart Athletics Hall of Fame (2014)
More recognition
- D3football.com first-team All-American (2004)
- D3football.com All-Decade Team (2000s)
What I’m building
I’m exploring how quickly we form a first story about a person, a decision, or a room, and what becomes possible when we slow down enough to see what that story might be missing.
The work is about clearer seeing, and the choices that open up when we notice what’s incomplete in that first story.
Writing & rooms
Places where judgment and perspective matter: leadership rooms, boards, classrooms, stages, pages, and one-to-one conversations when the stakes are real.
Speaking & teaching
Stages, classrooms, and facilitation where people bring real situations, including Kellogg and Money20/20.
Featured: Money20/20 “Pioneering Your Superpowers”
Book
A book in progress on the stories we tell ourselves, and what clearer seeing makes possible.
In progress
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