A professional life, in brief.

Cort Worthington is a Lecturer in Leadership and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow on faculty at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he teaches leadership courses and Business Negotiation for undergraduates and MBA students.  His consulting client list includes Pixar, Yelp, Kaiser, Samsung, Stanford University, the US Army, and the US Olympic Team.

Prior to his position at UC Berkeley, Cort was co-founder of toy company Primordial, LLC, where he raised capital and served as Director of Operations.  Along with multiple stints in Central America as a political activist, Cort spent twelve years as a film producer, directing documentary crews around the world. 

Additional experiences include fourteen seasons leading elite teams as a forest fire fighter and parachuting U.S. Forest Smokejumper, which piqued his interest in improvisational principles as applied to leading within high-risk, chaotic situations.  

In 2018 Cort was named by Poets and Quants as one of the top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors in the nation, and Haas students elected him to receive the Earl F. Cheit Award as the most outstanding teacher.

Cort holds an MA in Communication from Stanford University, an MBA from Columbia University Business School (finance), and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley (leadership).  He is an avid follower of Bay Area sports, and lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and two children.