Felicia Shakiba is the Founder and CEO of LeaderbookAI, an AI-enabled value creation platform that quantifies leadership quality, AI absorption capacity, and organizational risk for private equity firms, venture capital funds, and their portfolio companies. She hosts the LeaderbookAI podcast, ranked in the top 5% of B2B podcasts globally.
Felicia spent nearly two decades in people strategy and talent management before building LeaderbookAI. She served as Global Head of Performance Management at WPP, the global advertising and communications group with more than 100,000 employees, and led people strategy for companies across Enterprise SaaS, Fintech, Healthtech, Ad-tech, and Data Analytics. That work — spanning more than 200,000 employees across 20+ countries — became the foundation for PIA360™, the validated methodology behind LeaderbookAI that turns leadership and organizational signals into decision-ready intelligence for capital allocators.
She holds a Master's degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a credential from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She is a certified coach and facilitator in psychometric and leadership development assessments from the Center for Creative Leadership and Korn Ferry International.
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