Kathleen Finlinson
Executive Coach & Consultant at Finlinson Executive Coaching
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolKathleen Finlinson is an applied-mathematics-trained executive coach, researcher, and consultant focused on reducing existential risk from advanced AI, with 14 years of experience bridging technical modeling, policy, and leadership development. She combines deep quantitative skills—time series, Bayesian inference, neural nets, dynamical systems, and network science—with practical forecasting work used to inform AI alignment researchers and policymakers. Kathleen has shaped product and data science efforts at startups and public-sector AI policy in Utah, and she translates complex technical evidence into clear, decision-ready reports. As a coach she helps mission-driven founders and leaders improve emotional fluency and team culture using mindfulness and somatic practices, a rare pairing of rigorous modeling and somatic-informed leadership. Based in Berkeley, she brings a track record of interdisciplinary problem-solving across cancer genomics, climate science, computer vision, and AI forecasting.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado BoulderBS, MS, Mathematics, BS, MS, Mathematics at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (3)
numerical-computing4
python4
quantum-computing4
Github contributions (1)
insertinterestingnamehere/numerical_computing
May 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 10 months
computingnumerical-computingpythonquantum-computing
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