Dr. Chitra Anand
Disrupt status quo thinking. Dr. Chitra Anand brings executive-level insights to drive internal innovation and organizational reinvention.
Why book Chitra Anand for your next event
- Learn how to embed intrapreneurship into your culture, driving sustainable innovation across all business levels.
- Equip your leadership with the mindset and tools to lead transformative change from within the organization.
- Featured thought leader in Forbes, HuffPost, and Advertising Week for insights on intrapreneurship and culture.
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Unlocking Innovation Through Intrapreneurship
Book an award-winning former Microsoft exec who empowers organizations to ignite innovation from within. Dr. Chitra Anand transforms teams with actionable strategies in intrapreneurship, culture, and future-focused leadership.
Keynote Speaker Dr. Chitra Anand is a globally recognized expert on intrapreneurship—the art of driving innovation from within an organization. With over 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles at tech giants like Microsoft Canada, TELUS, and OpenText, Dr. Anand brings powerful, real-world insights into how companies can unlock untapped potential by cultivating entrepreneurial thinking internally.
As a thought leader in the fields of innovation, communications, and corporate strategy, Dr. Anand has developed a unique approach to helping businesses transform their culture and mindset to remain agile and competitive in an ever-evolving market. Her keynotes provide organizations with actionable tools to activate internal changemakers, break down silos, and embed innovation into the company’s DNA.
Dr. Anand is the author of The Green House Approach: How to Cultivate Deliberate Innovation in Organizations, a foundational text in the Forbes School of Business MBA curriculum. She has been named a Change Maker by The Globe and Mail and has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Globe and Mail for her expertise.
If you're looking to inspire forward-thinking leadership and meaningful transformation within your teams, book Dr. Chitra Anand for your event. Her keynotes are the catalyst for organizations ready to redefine their future through intrapreneurship and innovation.
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Keynote by Chitra Anand:
The Greenhouse Approach
With marketplaces being disrupted at a rate like never before, companies need to re-think how they operate. To succeed, modern businesses need to foster the creativity of their team by providing an environment that promotes constant innovation.
In this talk, Dr. Anand explores how Intrapreneurship can be used as a gateway for organizations to achieve sustainable innovation. She will show audiences how to harnesses the entrepreneurial drive within an existing organization to foster new ideas, creative thinking which will provide companies the problem-solving mindset to succeed in an ever-changing world.
With over 20 years spent in the technology sector working for some industry-leading organizations including Open Text, TELUS, and Microsoft, Chitra has led disruptive projects and initiatives which have created new ways for organizations to operate and think about the way in which they do business. Her book The Greenhouse Approach (a mandatory read for the Forbes School of Business MBA Program) shows organizations how to reimagine current norms and structures and develop a culture of innovation.
Learning objectives:
- How leaders can practice intrapreneurship within their organizations.
- Identify the true agents of change, and mobilize these agents to act.
- Practical ways to apply Greenhouse principles that will drive intentional innovation within your organization.
- Develop methods to best support the intrapreneurs that live inside your organization.
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