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