Chief of Staff Connect New York 2026
FROM FORCE
Multiplier to builder
Join senior Chiefs of Staff building scalable systems, intelligent operations, and high-performing teams.


DARA CHEN
EMILIE GRAHL



Where Elite Chiefs of Staff Unite.
- Chiefs of Staff driving strategic execution and alignment across high-performing organizations.
- Professionals navigating the unique challenges and opportunities of scaling, sustaining growth, or optimizing large, complex operations.
- CoS teams working collaboratively to align leadership priorities, manage cross-functional initiatives, and create operational clarity across the organization.

Inside COSC NEW YORK
From force multiplier to builder
This year’s focus is From Force Multiplier to Builder: the shift from amplifying leaders behind the scenes to owning the systems, programs, and operating models that move the business forward.
We’ll spotlight Chiefs of Staff delivering results—revenue growth, cost savings, and organizational efficiency—while strengthening the power skills and judgment required to lead through complexity.
COSC NEw york 2026 Themes
Not Just a Conference, A Catalyst for Impact
Architecting Systems That Scale: From Ad Hoc to Operating Model
The Launcher's Toolkit: Shipping Projects That Move Metrics
Developing Leaders, Not Just Supporting Them
Engineering Intelligent Operations: The CoS as Chief AI Architect
From Firefighter to Architect: Designing Organizational Resilience

Agenda
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Connect experience

Welcome + Opening Remarks
From Air Traffic Controller to AI Orchestrator: Reinventing the Chief of Staff Role Core (talk)
Industry Breakouts: The CoS in Finance — Building at the Speed of Capital
Industry Breakouts: The CoS in Education
Industry Breakouts: The CoS in Entertainment
MAIN ROOM — Breakout A: Build Your AI Deployment Playbook
You Can't Process Your Way to Strategy
What CEOs Actually Need from a CoS (Panel)
The senior Chief of Staff (Fireside Chat)
The State of the Chief of Staff
Workshop 1: Build Your AI Stack (Hands-On)
Workshop 2: The CoS Operating System
Powerskills Workshop 1: Building Your CEO — Managing Up Masterclass
Powerskills Workshop 2: From CoS to Founder (Fractional Edition)
Powerskills Workshop 3: decision making Stakeholder management Emotional intelligence
Speakers
Experience The Industry’s Leading Thinkers on Organizational Excellence

Founder & Principal Consultant, Vale & Associates
Bryan Vale is the founder of Vale & Associates, an operations consultancy that helps growing companies build structure without burnout. Bryan started his career as a Chief of Staff for a small non-profit, then time in management consulting designing and delivering transformations to Fortune 500 organizations. With Vale & Associates he brings that skillset to small and mid-sized organizations that need to scale and change how they operate in order to sustain their growth. His focus is on just-in-time structure, enough process to settle chaos without slowing work down. He has previously presented two webinars to the COSN, most recently preparing organizations to take advantage of AI.

Chief of Staff to Questlove

Head of Global Partner Engagement, Google

Founder, Fractional Cody Rapp LLC
Cody Rapp is the Founder of Fractional Cody Rapp LLC, a fractional chief of staff firm partnering with entrepreneurs to stand up and scale their businesses. Cody is a dynamic leader with a career spanning higher education professional services, and tech startups. He is a 3x EdTech founding operator and a people operations specialist.
As the Fractional Chief of Staff the scope of his work includes, revenue operations, internal operations, and people operations. He’s been growing his fractional practice since 2023 where he’s since replaced his full-time income and achieved 100%+ growth YOY for the last two years.

Director, Global Head of Business Execution (Finance), Citi

Assistant Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Chief of Staff, NYU Steinhardt

Principal & Founder, OneTwo Growth Studio

Head of Operations, Radius Intelligence

Founder & Executive Coach, Juhi Kabra Coaching
Juhi Kabra is an executive coach, facilitator and superconnector. She partners with growth-minded founders, executives and leadership teams to help them lead and live at the top of their game. Before launching her coaching practice, Juhi was an investor, a tech executive, and a Chief of Staff at companies including The Blackstone Group, Palantir Technologies, and Redesign Health. Juhi lives with her husband and two daughters in Brooklyn, NY. You can learn more at www.juhikabra.com.

Chief of Staff, Clay

Chief of Staff, Harvard

Chief of Staff, Wing

Creator & Chief of Staff, Scale AI
Kailey is a 3x Chief of Staff, strategy & operations leader, and creator helping people make sense of the messy middle between strategy and execution. With nearly a decade of experience across Marketing, Communications, and GTM, she’s built her career turning executive vision into action—and figuring out what it takes to keep organizations moving when the path isn’t clear. Today, she shares the frameworks, lessons, and unspoken rules she’s learned along the way with a community of 11k+ operators. Her goal is simple: make the invisible work of great operations more visible, practical, and empowering for the people doing it.

Founder, Algirhythm
Keith Conway is the founder of Algirhythm, where he red teams organizational change through applied AI. He served twice as a chief of staff: first at Macy's, where he seeded the strategic vision inside a culture hostile to technological change. Amazon patented a similar idea a year after he pitched it to the C-suite. His second role was for one of Forbes' Best Immigration Lawyers in NYC, keeping the firm steady through one of the most volatile immigration environments in decades. Keith has spoken twice at DEF CON on social engineering and geopolitical risk, and co-hosts The Monolith: a podcast about navigating exponential change without losing your humanity in the process.

CEO, Lifestyles Healthcare

Founder & Lead Consultant

Chief of Staff to Kevin Hart

Chief of Staff, Lifestyles Healthcare

Chief of Staff, AI Strategy, Maximor AI

Co-Founder, The Coul & Gold Group

Founder & CEO, Metronome

Founder & CEO, Turba Staffing (Moderator)

Founder, Revi Systems

Founder, Chief of Staff Network

Chief of Staff & VP, Communications, The D.E. Shaw Group

Co-Founder, The Coul & Gold Group
Suzi Coul is Co-Founder of The Coul & Gold Group, an advisory practice building the operating architecture behind exceptional leadership for executives, Chiefs of Staff, and the search firms that place them. Her career spans nearly two decades at the centre of complex, high-stakes environments across senior government, elected office, and the commercial sector. At the peak of her political career, she served as Chief of Staff to a UK Deputy Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor. Today, she works directly with Chiefs of Staff and the executives beside them, on the operating systems and decision patterns that determine whether a leadership environment produces coherence or dysfunction - and what it takes to close the gap.

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