Tom Cochran is an executive advisor and speaker whose work sits at the intersection of leadership, technology, and organizational change. He helps senior leaders navigate the decisions that determine whether the intelligent enterprise actually takes shape, focusing on the people and governance questions that technology alone cannot answer.

Before entering government, Cochran was the first engineer at Blue State Digital, the firm that built the fundraising infrastructure behind two presidential campaigns and raised $1.2 billion in grassroots donations. He went on to serve as a presidential appointee, first as Director of Digital Technology at the White House, overseeing WhiteHouse.gov and building We the People, the first platform allowing Americans to directly petition the federal government. He then served as Chief Technology Officer of Atlantic Media, home of The Atlantic, Quartz, and National Journal, and served on the faculty at American University's Kogod School of Business. At the State Department, he directed the global public diplomacy digital operation, launching ShareAmerica, a content platform available in seven languages to a potential audience of four billion people.

His research on the hidden cost of institutional communication habits was cited in Cal Newport's bestselling Deep Work (2016), and he has written on leadership and technology for the Harvard Business Review and Entrepreneur. He speaks internationally on digital transformation and the organizational challenges of AI adoption. He works with a select group of C-suite leaders and growth-stage operators on consequential decisions, where the challenge is usually technology, growth, or organizational change, and the actual problem almost always lives upstream of that.

Cochran is a graduate of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.