Colin is Managing Partner of Stage-Gate International, the originators of the Stage-Gate® process and Innovation Performance Framework®. Colin helps clients around the world adopt and automate the best practices in Product Innovation & technology strategy, Portfolio management, and Stage-Gate idea-to-launch processes

Christian Crews has over 20 years of experience applying foresight to innovation, research and development, and strategy for large corporations and professional membership organizations. He is the Principal of Wavepoint, a foresight services agency based in Washington DC. Selected clients include Clorox, CVS, PepsiCo, Diageo, Crown Equipment, Hershey, Disney and Goodyear. Christian also led collaborative …

Andrea is an expert at corporate strategy, transformation, and innovation. She has led growth initiatives in virtually every sector, including mobility, manufacturing/energy, technology, health care, B2C consumer goods/hospitality, and financial services. She published her original research in cross-industry growth in her book Find Your Next and in her masterclass series, Get to Next. As CEO …

Pam Henderson, Ph.D. As the CEO and founder of NewEdge, I have been involved in innovation and organizational growth for the past 25 years. I have pioneered NewEdge’s Opportunity Thinking™ approach to innovation that has assisted organizations in creating sustainable growth by focusing on opportunities rather than ideas. I was formerly on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University …

Dave Alpert is an ex-architect who now leads an inventive team of young explorers as the CEO and Co-Founder of Geopogo AR. Together, the team has been granted three broad metaverse and AR patents and has recently been invited to present their subscription software at CES’23. In partnership with the Magic Leap AR hardware company, …

As Simon Fraser University’s Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Terri Griffith helps her students and their organizations accelerate performance and prepare for the futures of work. Terri brings energy and evidence-based innovation to organizational design and technology management through her research, teaching, speaking, and writing. She inspires and coaches on how to negotiate …

Dr. Michael J. Rivera joined the Fox School of Business in September 2014 and serves as Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. In this role, he teaches courses in creative problem solving, business model innovation, and innovation adoption and diffusion at the graduate level, including Executive MBA. With a strong focus on bridging theory with …

Beth Dawson is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Mars Wrigley US. In this role she leads a team of internal consultants that drive strategy execution through holistic program management, change management and process improvement solutions. Beth is also an adjunct instructor at Temple University Fox School of Business where she teaches Organizational Communications and …