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For more than three decades, Steve Hirsch led organizations inside the U.S. intelligence community where the consequences of failure were measured in national security, not quarterly earnings.
As Chief Learning Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency, he led the Agency’s global learning enterprise—modernizing education, expanding worldwide access, and strengthening workforce readiness for a mission that demands performance under pressure.
Steve also led the CIA’s enterprise-wide accessibility transformation, moving beyond compliance to embed accessibility and disability inclusion into hiring, technology modernization, facilities, training, and leadership expectations. Working directly with employees with disabilities, he helped ensure that policy reflected lived reality, not just regulatory language.
Throughout his career, he focused on building organizations that outlast their leaders—leading with humility, putting the spotlight on the people doing the work, and creating high-trust cultures that enable teams to perform at their best. From turning broken and demoralized units into highly functioning and energetic teams, to building new organizations to suit changing global challenges, he firmly believed that when people feel seen, trusted, and responsible, they build great things that last.
Today Steve advises organizations and speaks on leadership, organizational change, inclusive performance, and building resilient institutions capable of delivering results when the stakes are high.
In his spare time, he writes dystopian future fiction—stress-testing leadership principles in worlds where the stakes are even higher.