Josh Chernikoff is a two-time founder/CEO, now a business coach specializing in lead generation and scaling systems specifically for companies in the education space. Josh has started, built to scale, and then sold two companies in the education space over the last two decades. His EdSales Elevation Experience is a 12-week lead generation course for companies in education that has graduated 118 companies in its first 16 months.

Chernikoff has been a featured speaker at StartEd, UPenn’s Graduate School of Education, and a judge for the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. He has spoken recently at the ERDI Institute, SXSWEdu, Institute for the Future of Education, and PennGSE’s Catalyst Innovation Summit. His companies have been spotlighted on NBC, ABC, FOX, and CBS. He hosts a podcast called Breaking the Grade with John Gamba, the Entrepreneur in Residence and Director of Innovative Programs at Catalyst @ Penn GSE, focusing on lead generation strategies and systems to grow sales for companies in education.