Nancy Easterbrook: Corporate Intrapreneur

This profile traces Nancy Easterbrook’s winding path as a corporate intrapreneur, showing how innovation careers rarely begin with a formal title and instead grow out of curiosity, adaptability, and mentorship. Trained as a chemical engineer, Easterbrook discovered that innovation lives at the intersection of technical rigor, creativity, and communication. Across roles at Air Products, Eastman Chemical, Buckman, and Harbison Walker, she built new products, digital tools, foresight functions, and even circular-economy infrastructure—often in spaces where no roadmap existed.