CANDICE FAKTOR

Hello! 

I am Candice, great to meet you. I'm extremely passionate about lifelong learning, innovation and human connection.

I am the founder and Co-CEO of Disco.co, the #1 ai powered social learning platform used by 1000s of organizations who want to create real results from their learning programs. Our customers are running virtual academies, bootcamps, cohort based programs, accelerators and incubators that are upskilling and reskilling society in more sustainable, affordable, accessible and practical ways than traditional education. We all know its time for a work + learning revolution and as a result new models of social learning that drive real outcomes are growing rapidly. Read our manifesto.

I have been in tech for most of my career. I helped scale Wattpad, one of the world’s largest social storytelling platforms, which sold for over US$660MM to Naver Corp. I built a corporate venture and innovation arm for the largest Canadian media company. I started my career in strategy consulting with Monitor.

My love of life long learning and my interest in innovation led me to create the 3000+ Gamechanger.co series focused on 1) not just surviving, but thriving in uncertainty and 2) not just creating the future, but rather creating the future we want. Join the Gamechanger: Food for Thought newsletter or watch some amazing GC sessions with Margaret Atwood, Roger Martin, Adam Grant, Seth Godin here.

I am a venture partner for Lobby.vc a Series A venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley where I get to work with amazing humans like David Hornik, Buddy Arnheim, James Everingham, and Selina Tobacowa.

I have sat on the Boards of two AI first companies: Dreambox Learning, adaptive AI platform for K-12 (recently Merged with Discovery Education) and Coveo, the leading enterprise AI solution (went public in 2021).

I talk about my ideas about the future of work, learning, innovation and leadership as a keynote speaker, and get great joy helping others reframe the way they see the world. Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to drop me a line if I can be helpful!

candice@disco.co