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| Bettina von Stamm |
Dr. Bettina von Stamm
Innovation Leadership Forum
Bettina von Stamm is hugely passionate about understanding and enabling innovation, particularly in large organizations. For this purpose, she has set up her own company, the Innovation Leadership Forum (ILF), part of which is a networking group to exchange and further knowledge around innovation. (Current members include BASF, British Gypsum, Cancer Research UK, Cargill, ICI Paints, Marks & Spencer, Masterfoods, the National Health Innovation Institute, Nestle, O2, Ordnance Survey, Smith & Nephew, Unilever, Visteon, and Warburtons.)
She also enjoys the role of a catalyst in large organizations (such as DSM, Hibernian, Masterfoods, Ordnance Survey, and the Financial Ombudsman Services) to speed up the creating of innovative organizations, and keeping a hand in academic research on her favorite topic. In addition, she teaches innovation and design management at a number of leading universities in the UK and Germany, and shares her passion for innovation at conferences, workshops, and other events. For more information, please visit the ILF website at www.innovationleadershipforum.org.
She has also developed the Innovation Wave®, a tool for the facilitated assessment and development of innovation capability in organizations (www.innovationwave.com).
Bettina holds a first degree in architecture and town planning, and an MA as well as a PhD from London Business School. Her work has resulted in the writing of numerous articles and two books, The Innovation Wave (2002), an introduction to a holistic approach to innovation, and Managing Innovation Design & Creativity (2003, second edition to be published in 2008), a textbook which is also available in Chinese.
Kristi Thorne
The Iron Skirt
“The Iron Skirt” is an anagram of Kristi Thorne and it neatly sums up the practical creativity Kristi adds to her drive for results. Kristi earned her corporate stripes over a successful 20-year international business career with a FTSE 100 FMCG company, spanning finance, sales, marketing, general management, and innovation leadership. Kristi earned a seat on a regional board and on a global executive team and has extensive experience in global innovation leadership.
Kristi combines this business background and functional innovation excellence with the skills of an NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner to uniquely deliver creative, truthful, productive facilitation.
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