Dr. CJ Meadows
- Chief of Innovation Center
- Founder, Advanced-Tech Think Tank & Lab
- Head, Consulting MBA,
- S P Jain School of Global Management
Dr. CJ Meadows Speaker Biography
Awarded as one of Asia’s Top-10 Women in IT, Dr. CJ Meadows leads a Design Thinking and Innovation Center at a Forbes Top-20 International Business School, creating growth initiatives at the intersection of IT, business strategy, and design. Her research, consulting, and coaching focus on Leadership and Creativity. She co-founded an Advanced Technology Think Tank and Tinker Lab, envisioning the Future of Work (FoW) and Education, applying AI, biometrics, and other advanced technologies to leadership development, team productivity, and group innovation. She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration and IT from Harvard Business School and has over 20 years’ experience in Asia, Europe, and North America as a consultant, coach, entrepreneur, eBusiness builder, innovation lab co-founder, and Accenture IT and Business Strategy consultant.
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Innovation through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High-Impact Solutions
Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy from combining two nuclei, a fusion in business, technology, and the arts can release massive value—creating whole new companies, industries, and human capabilities. Examples of the fusion technique for high-value, radical innovation are shared in this unique collection of stories. The 30 world-class innovators in this 2-year, round-the-world study have collectively created billions of dollars’ worth of business value, as well as new advances in science, technology, and the arts that can save millions of lives and that bring joy and transformation to millions. Insights are shared to help leaders, organizations, and individuals create breakthrough innovations.
Design Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Business Growth
How do the world’s most innovative companies outperform the rest (3X income growth, 2X ROA, 60% more shareholder returns)? How can we create initiatives of radical value & engaging acceptance? A great place to start is Design Thinking (DT), honed by award-winning design & innovation firm IDEO. In this engaging DT-Intro, Dr. Meadows introduces IDEO’s classic DT methodology, business value, and tools & techniques from the world’s most innovative companies, as well as sharing stories of remarkable innovations and how they happened. If you have a dollar (or an hour) to spend on innovation, THIS is the way to spend it.
Sustainable Business
How can CSR and ESG efforts help your business grow and survive disruption? How can we integrate ecology and economy to benefit both? What exactly are CSR, ESG, triple-bottom-line, and more, and how does this alphabet soup impact your business? Why is “Impact Investing” on the rise, and what benefits does it have to offer? Join Dr. CJ as she addresses this and more, sharing surprising facts & figures, behind-the-scenes entrepreneurship stories and insights, award-winning results, and ideas to help your business do well and do good.
Upskilling and Reskilling: New Technologies, Designs and Business Models for the Modern Organization
Education and corporate L&D need a serious overhaul. By leveraging the technologies, methods, business models, and tools from Disruption and Design Thinking outlined here, you can propel your organization to the forefront of learning innovation. Starting with eye-opening statistics about our evolving workforce in the age of GenAI and organizational instability under disruptive conditions, Dr. Meadows makes a compelling case for change. She explores future skills and introduces a framework for developing a workforce that can thrive alongside smart machines, benefiting both organizations and individuals. Using tools and techniques from disruption and design thinking, you’ll discover not only new frameworks but also examples of companies who are already shaping the future today.
Join the session to:
Identify key technologies and their application in L&D – What are the benefits and drawbacks?
Envision new learning designs and their impact based on organizational and employees’ needs
Explore new business models that bring both fresh ideas and enhanced value
