People like Olivia Fox Cabane

Olivia Fox Cabane (born 1979 in Paris, France) is an American author, public speaker, and the cofounder of Kindearth.tech. She grew up in Paris, with a French father (physicist Bernard Cabane, link) and attended French schools, eventually earning three separate master's degrees in law from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She is the author of The Charisma Myth and the co-author of The Net And The Butterfly, two books on charisma and the neuroscience of innovation, respectively.

Fox Cabane was born in Paris, France, to French physicist Bernard Cabane and American psychotherapist Celie Fox. Being half-American and Jewish, she was ostracized for her social awkwardness, socioeconomic class, and nationality. She subsequently earned two law degrees in international and European business law from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. and one in German business law from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her early life influenced her work, especially her parents' fields of research science and behavioral psychology. She also cites her experiences growing up “socially inept” as forcing her to develop an interest in charisma out of necessity. After spending a year in Peru doing volunteer work, Fox Cabane moved to New York City in 2002, and now lives with her husband on a mini urban farm in Silicon Valley, where most of her clients reside.