Entre­pre­neur­ial Think­ing: Becom­ing an Intrapre­neur Inside your Corporation

Intrapre­neur­ship helps orga­ni­za­tions to gen­er­ate new busi­ness growth, to build an envi­ron­ment to sus­tain inno­va­tion, to improve pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and to increase finan­cial returns. It also helps to attract and retain the best and bright­est tal­ent, to stretch and grow employ­ees while keep­ing them engaged, and to facil­i­tate and accel­er­ate cul­ture change. Since 2011, Hans Bal­maek­ers and his team have been host­ing events all around the globe, cre­at­ing a space for intrapre­neur­ship and curat­ing the best sto­ries, ideas, and peo­ple in this emerg­ing field. Hans will share key insights and learn­ings from these events and the intrapre­neur­ship community.

Intrapre­neur­ship helps unleash the pow­er of inno­va­tion inside your orga­ni­za­tion. Many assume that inno­va­tion starts with ideas. The sec­ond part of this ses­sion will focus on the pre­cur­sors to ideas com­ing to life: a cul­ture that embraces change and empow­ered employ­ees. Hav­ing worked with hun­dreds of entre­pre­neurs and intrapre­neurs, Dr. Susan Amat will dis­cuss the skills need­ed for employ­ees to cre­ate both incre­men­tal and dis­rup­tive solu­tions, and the chal­lenges of over­com­ing per­son­al and envi­ron­men­tal bar­ri­ers to pro­fes­sion­al and cor­po­rate growth.

Speak­ers: 

Dr. Susan Amat, CEO and Founder, Ven­ture Hive

Hans Bal­maek­ers, Team Lead | Chief Strat­e­gy, Pro­gram & Mar­ket­ing – Intrapre­neur­ship Conference

Speak­er Bio:

Dr. Susan Amat is the CEO and founder of Ven­ture Hive, an entre­pre­neur edu­ca­tion com­pa­ny that pro­vides account­abil­i­ty and trans­paren­cy tools and con­tent to sup­port inno­va­tion man­age­ment and entre­pre­neur­ship pro­grams. A ser­i­al entre­pre­neur, she built busi­ness­es in the enter­tain­ment indus­try for over a decade, includ­ing the first CD-Rom mag­a­zine and a nation­al tele­vi­sion show.

After com­plet­ing her MBA, Dr. Amat devel­oped pedi­atric health mon­i­tor­ing prod­ucts and earned a Ph.D. in Strate­gic Entre­pre­neur­ship (course­work in indus­tri­al engi­neer­ing, busi­ness, and edu­ca­tion). While teach­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mia­mi, she found­ed The Launch Pad, which was con­sid­ered the top mod­el in entre­pre­neur­ship edu­ca­tion. Her pro­gram and plat­form were repli­cat­ed through­out the Unit­ed States as Black­stone Launch­Pads in uni­ver­si­ties includ­ing USC, UCLA, and Case West­ern Reserve University.

Ven­ture Hive offers the next gen­er­a­tion solu­tion, allow­ing stu­dents and adult entre­pre­neurs access to world-class con­tent and a glob­al net­work of col­lab­o­ra­tors while assess­ing impact in real time. Dr. Amat served as the found­ing Chair of the STEM Board for Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty Pub­lic Schools and active­ly speaks about entre­pre­neur­ship edu­ca­tion inter­na­tion­al­ly. She has worked with the U.S. State Depart­ment, the Kauff­man Foun­da­tion, and the World Bank on ecosys­tem devel­op­ment and pro­gram devel­op­ment and eval­u­a­tion. In 2012, Dr. Amat was hon­ored as a Cham­pi­on of Change at the White House. @SusanAmat