I am passionate about empowering individuals of all backgrounds to create innovative, scalable, sustainable and impactful enterprises to achieve a triple bottom line (people, planet, profit). I am a creative leader with extensive business strategy, leadership and marketing experience. I am the founder of Impact Innovator (http://www.impactinnovator.co). I can get involved to help you as a: business advisor (strategy, go-to-market, raising capital, US market entry for foreign companies, scaling, fractional CEO/COO/CMO), leadership and intrapreneurship coach, public speaker on entrepreneurship, digital transformation and mindset shift to achieve desired success. I am a National Science Foundation I-Corps instructor and support many university-based researchers find a path to commercialization for their innovative technologies.
I was named one of the “Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise” by Euclid Network in 2023 and nominated for the LA Times 2024 Orange County Inspirational Women, Orange County Business Journal’s “Women in Business” award in 2022. I am a member of the global Catalyst 2030 group promoting and working towards achieving the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
I believe in giving back to the community: I speak at conferences, podcasts, webinars. I am a mentor in numerous incubators/accelerators, and serve on the Board of Directors of various local nonprofit organizations.
