As an experienced corporate entrepreneur (Intrapreneur), Susan understands the challenges of building corporate entrepreneurship (Intrapreneurship) as a core competency inside of an established organizations. Susan has spent the last twenty five years helping organizations develop new growth businesses that have generated millions. She helps organizations identify and develop their internal entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders. Then works with them to build the infrastructure needed to support innovation inside their organizations, accelerating the speed of growth.
Topics:
- Business Growth
- Change
- Entrepreneurism
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Success
Fee:
$5000 - $10000
Travels from
Boston
Speaker Susan Foley
Susan is an international speaker, the author of numerous articles and author of the book Entrepreneurs Inside: Accelerating Business Growth with Corporate Entrepreneurs and Acceleration: Changing the Speed of Growth.
She is an Executive in Residence at Babson College, teaches Corporate Entrepreneurship at Babson Executive Education and is a fellow at the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at Suffolk University.
Susan works with Fortune 1000 and medium size businesses that are under pressure to deliver new business growth. She helps these organizations build the entrepreneurial competencies needed for success. Susan’s mission is to help business executives, innovation teams and individuals understand the value of corporate entrepreneurship in accelerating business growth and to help individuals develop their capabilities as internal entrepreneurs. In doing so, she is awakening the entrepreneur in all of us.
Prior to this Susan was the Executive Director of the applied research centers at Babson Executive Education. Before that Susan was Vice President of Research Services at Standard & Poor’s where she built and managed a venture funded initiative to create the Industry Services business. She also held senior positions at 3M, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment, DMR Group and Arthur D. Little.
Susan has a BS in Business Administration and an MBA in Marketing Management from Rochester Institute of Technology, a post graduate degree in Health Administration from Simmons Graduate School and Executive Management Training at INSEAD, France.
Our client engagements include assignments to:
Identify and develop entrepreneurial leaders
Build entrepreneurial skills and capabilities
Identify and eliminate barriers to growth
Create new systems and processes to support entrepreneurship
Engage the organization in understanding the value of entrepreneurship
Transform traditional organizations to entrepreneurial ones
We’ve helped organizations design, build and grow businesses that are realistic and can be executed with precision to:
Minimize investment risks
Increase success rates
Leverage critical resources
Retain entrepreneurial talent
•Accelerate new business growth
We partner with you to create the entrepreneurial mindset and infrastructure needed for success.
