Is Higher Education Ready for Disruptive Innovation with Jennifer Wilde, Managing Director and Dan McClure, System Innovation Architect of Innovation Ecosystem

Jennifer draws on over 15 years of hands-on experience as a senior manager in humanitarian response. She has developed strategies for fostering innovation during emergency response, in challenging volatile contexts, always with complex challenges. Jenny has pioneered initiatives that break from conventional innovation models and enable global scale. She excels in bringing together diverse groups from local innovators to international organizations to collaborate on "messy" problems and big opportunities.

Wilde is currently serving as Managing Director at Innovation Ecosystem, an organisation that offers practical tools and support to deliver a step change in innovation effectiveness. In fact, she met her business partner, Dan McClure, when she was invited by the UN to speak at Berkley about the innovation lab that she set up in the middle of the earthquake response in Nepal.

Jenny has achieved what everyone else just talks about - she has established innovation labs across the globe which are sustainable and produce results.

Dan is a specialist in disruption. Throughout his 40 year career, he has been a choreographer of ambitious messy change, reimagining complex systems in business, government, international aid, and society as a whole. His work spans multiple sectors and engages leaders in both sprawling global firms and fast moving startups. He is a thought leader that has helped pioneer practical approaches to system innovation, drawing on insights from a wide variety of past roles such as the global innovation lead at the international consultancy ThoughtWorks, and the Chair of the Advisory Board for the UK based Humanitarian Innovation Fund.

Today, as a founding partner of Innovation Ecosystem, Dan is working to make system innovation a core creative capability that is enthusiastically embraced and widely practiced. He has authored a number of papers on systems innovation methodologies and agile enterprises, and is also actively engaged with programs addressing cutting edge issues such as scaling, localization, and dynamic collaboration building.

Although he is sometimes referred to as "The Grandfather of Product Innovation", Dan is right at the cutting edge of innovation and would love to share with audiences why systems innovation is such an important part of the future of work.

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Connect with Jennifer Wilde: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-wilde-bbb05867/

Connect with Dan McClure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mccluredc/

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