
Kaia Alexander
Kaia Alexander (neé Van Zandt) is a mood cartographer, systems architect, and award-winning author. As the inventor of Mood O.S™ , she maps the emotional nervous system—in color.
She’s the founder of KAIAFORM: a sport tech startup. As a coach for three decades her clients have included the San Francisco 49ers, Sony Pictures, Emmy and Oscar winning talent, and Fortune 500 companies.
She was a UN Earth Summit Speaker, and awarded the prestigious U.S. Congressional Youth Leadership Award.
Her fiction and non-fiction books include: Edge Under Pressure, Stealth Pitch, Inner Guide Meditation, Mockingbird in Mark Twain’s Hat, and Written in the Ashes.
She is currently working on a queer thriller novel series.
Kaia knows story from the inside. A former Hollywood development executive, she green-lit major motion pictures and later founded the Entertainment Business School to teach business strategy to creatives.
She collects cats, surfboards, and vintage Bossa nova records.
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ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS SCHOOL – LEGACY

Where Hollywood outsiders became insiders.
For five powerful years and across five continents (founded in the pandemic), Kaia taught hundreds of ambitious creative storytellers how the entertainment industry really works—through a lens of strategy, heart, and wolfpack.
Though the school is now closed to new enrollment, the mission remains.
Entertainment Business School:
12 Modules Now On Youtube
Find your wolfpack. Pitch with power. Own your career.

Kaia with Tom Robbins

Kaia with Judd Apatow

Kaia with Dylan Moran

Kaia with Kevin Nealon