Silicone Valley is a trillion-dollar industry. It is the place where technology solves real world problems and billionaires are created. In San Francisco 1 in 11,600 people is a billionaire and dreams are turned to reality. 42% of California’s billionaires are tech billionaires. Prince Harry is now Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp.
British tabloids with their limited business knowledge have alleged that Prince Harry is not qualified to work as a tech executive. They point to his lack of university education. This is poverty programming. Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook ; Bill Gates of Microsoft and Steve Jobs were all tech executives with no college degree.
Education gives you acquired knowledge, but experiential knowledge is better because it is practical knowledge which can solve real world problems. Business success is determined by creating creative solutions to solve problems. The question should be what Prince Harry has done in his professional life in the field of mental health that enables him to succeed as tech executive? So glad you asked.
First, Prince Harry has experience in the field. He has high income skills that are needed in the 21st century to serve in the C suite. Ever heard of the Invictus Games?
Prince Harry has been one of the fiercest advocates for mental wellness or mental fitness for many years Harry’s work for organizations like Head Fit, a mental wellness service he launched in partnership with the U.K. Ministry of Defense. Has been a big part of his personal life’s journey and his personal life’s mission.
Prince Harry is transforming pain into purpose. His 10 years in the military taught him “mental resilience”. Harry developed HeadFit program used in the UK military and is part of Harry’s “model of inspiration and impact through action.
HeadFIT is a proactive approach to mental fitness, focusing on our own potential to increase our performance, using proven methods in sport science.
The user chooses from four mental fitness goals: de-stress, drive, confidence, and mood. The resources to help people understand mental wellness approaches.
Harry worked on HeadFit for 3 years. Using technology, science, human experts to help people go through a personal growth and transformation journey. Prince Harry is strong believer in self-optimization and becoming the best version of ourselves, with whatever life throws at us. Being ready for the next challenge, meeting setbacks with courage, confidence, and self-awareness.
More important than formal education Prince Harry is a results driven leader with a proven track record of product implementation in the marketplace. He has demonstrated that he has created something that actually has market value and turning an idea into a product.
His responsibilities as Chief Impact Officer include
Driving advocacy and awareness already proven in founding the Invictus Games, a platform for service personnel to use sport as part of their psychological and physical rehabilitation,
Guiding BetterUp’s social mission and impact to bring the science of peak performance and human potential into the hands of people worldwide. Which he has already done with Sentebale, which supports the mental health and well being of young people affected by HIV in Lesotho and Botswana and with HeadFIT.
Influencing the vision BetterUp to work with ‘Peak State: Mental Fitness’, a platform Prince Harry helped establish which provides practical online tools to enhance mental fitness.
Expanding BetterUp’s global community It is this expertise, not to mention name recognition and global connections which will translate to real sales and growth for the company.
Prince Harry brings a lot to the table. His global brand and expertise and proven work with the Ministry of Defense make him perfect for BetterUp. Prince Harry is in the C suite and that comes with equity also known as ownership. This private company is a unicorn with more than a billion-dollar valuation. When and if they should ever go public let’s just say Prince Harry will be first self-made billionaire in the House of Windsor.
