Ioanna
Onasi
I’m building the infrastructure for human influence in the age of AI making the behaviors behind influence, leadership, and great sales measurable and coachable.
About
Ioanna Onasi
I’m fascinated by one question: What will make humans indispensable in the AI era?
I believe the answer is influence.
As AI makes information abundant, our competitive advantage shifts. It’s no longer about who knows the most, but about who can build trust, communicate clearly, inspire action, and create meaningful human connection. The future belongs to those who can influence, not just inform.
That belief has shaped my career.
At 15, I launched my first company, DGRwear, a sustainable fashion label rooted in traditional Greek knitting. The women who created those garments mastered their craft through years of practice and feedback—not through instruction, but through repetition, iteration, and lived experience. That was my first lesson in how real skills are formed: not through information, but through deliberate practice.
Years later, at Aptivio, a Fast 100 AI scaleup, I led global talent development across onboarding, performance, and learning systems. Despite strong infrastructure and investment, behavior rarely changed. That experience made one thing clear: organizations don’t have a knowledge problem, they have a behavior problem. People don’t fail because they lack information, but because applying it in high-stakes moments is fundamentally harder than acquiring it.
I carried that insight into everything I built afterward.
Today, I’m the Founder & CEO of Dextego, where we build AI that helps professionals develop influence through behavioral intelligence and real-time coaching. I also founded the Influence Institute, a free community exploring the future of influence, leadership, and human behavior in the AI era, and authored CEO Energy, a book capturing the mindset and lessons of CEOs to inspire the next generation of leaders.
My work has been recognized through several honors, including: Top 100 Powerful Women in Sales 2025 · TiE NJ GRIT Award 2025 · SalesIntel Top 300 Women in SaaS 2025 · 50 Female Founders to Have on Your Radar 2025 · Education 2.0 Young Leader Award 2024 · FACC Cross Cultural Educator Award 2024 · Top 100 Entrepreneur and Innovator 2024.
My mission is simple: to make influence measurable, trainable, and accessible because in the age of AI, influence is the ultimate human advantage.
I believe the answer is influence.
As AI makes information abundant, our competitive advantage shifts. It’s no longer about who knows the most, but about who can build trust, communicate clearly, inspire action, and create meaningful human connection. The future belongs to those who can influence, not just inform.
That belief has shaped my career.
At 15, I launched my first company, DGRwear, a sustainable fashion label rooted in traditional Greek knitting. The women who created those garments mastered their craft through years of practice and feedback—not through instruction, but through repetition, iteration, and lived experience. That was my first lesson in how real skills are formed: not through information, but through deliberate practice.
Years later, at Aptivio, a Fast 100 AI scaleup, I led global talent development across onboarding, performance, and learning systems. Despite strong infrastructure and investment, behavior rarely changed. That experience made one thing clear: organizations don’t have a knowledge problem, they have a behavior problem. People don’t fail because they lack information, but because applying it in high-stakes moments is fundamentally harder than acquiring it.
I carried that insight into everything I built afterward.
Today, I’m the Founder & CEO of Dextego, where we build AI that helps professionals develop influence through behavioral intelligence and real-time coaching. I also founded the Influence Institute, a free community exploring the future of influence, leadership, and human behavior in the AI era, and authored CEO Energy, a book capturing the mindset and lessons of CEOs to inspire the next generation of leaders.
My work has been recognized through several honors, including: Top 100 Powerful Women in Sales 2025 · TiE NJ GRIT Award 2025 · SalesIntel Top 300 Women in SaaS 2025 · 50 Female Founders to Have on Your Radar 2025 · Education 2.0 Young Leader Award 2024 · FACC Cross Cultural Educator Award 2024 · Top 100 Entrepreneur and Innovator 2024.
My mission is simple: to make influence measurable, trainable, and accessible because in the age of AI, influence is the ultimate human advantage.
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