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Chris Hadley

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Founder at Safe Horizon
📍 Oakland, California, United States

Chris Hadley is the Principal Consultant at Unlock Strategy, specializing in integrating AI systems and automating workflows for small businesses. An empathetic and collaborative leader with a Ph. D. from UCLA, he previously scaled wikiHows global readership to over 100 million monthly users as Vice President of Operations.

Outside of consulting, Chris is a hands-on builder who prefers learning through doing rather than reading manuals. His academic background includes co-authoring research on memory and animal behavior. He maintains an interest in major technology companies like Google and Amazon.

He uses the phrase "hamster work" to describe the repetitive, unsatisfying tasks he aims to eliminate for his clients through automation.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Oakland, California, United States
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AI Integration
Helps businesses create reliable solutions using AI models like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. He personally considers Claude Code to be his daily driver for work.
Workflow Automation
Passionate about eliminating repetitive "hamster work" by building automation solutions that solve real business problems and reduce unsatisfying tasks.
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Career

Work history

10-2023
Founder
Safe Horizon
1-2023
Principal
Unlock Strategy
6-2022 - 11-2022
Platform Operations Manager
Forward
6-2016 - 4-2022
Vice President of Operations and Content
wikiHow.com
1-2013 - 6-2016
Head of Operations and Content
wikiHow.com
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Education
2000 - 2006
Ph.D.
UCLA
1991 - 1995
B.A.
University of Florida
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