Dr. Karina R. Jensen is an educator and change facilitator who enjoys orchestrating global innovation and multicultural collaboration with international leaders and teams. She is a Professor of Global Innovation and Leadership as well as Practice Director of the Centre for Leadership and Effective Organisations at NEOMA Business School in France. She is also Founder and Executive Director of Global Minds Network, an international advisory firm specializing in innovation readiness solutions. Karina has delivered talks, training, and courses to universities, organizations, and associations around the world. Her research and publications explore the challenges and opportunities of leading in a global, multicultural, and digitally connected world. Through research with 200+ leaders at 45 multinational firms, her book Leading Global Innovation presents a framework for leaders and teams to facilitate strategic planning and execution of global initiatives. Dr. Jensen earned her PhD in International Management at ESCP Business School in France. She is a San Francisco native with Scandinavian roots and currently resides in Paris.
Today’s knowledge workers are constantly taking in new information, grappling with new challenges and seeing new opportunities. This coupled with the accelerating pace of change and the complexity of work in the digital age can feel draining and overwhelming. In this conversation between Kathy Doiron (Catalyst Labs Director at Starbucks) and Karina R. Jensen (Practice Director, Centre for Leadership and Effective Organisations at NEOMA Business School) we’ll hear about how Catalyst Labs strategically integrates learning, with hacking, with community to accelerate business transformations such as Modern Engineering and enterprise agility.
Catalyst Labs is a small but mighty team of change makers within Starbucks IT whose focus is on the intersections of learning and innovation. They bring learning journeys and bootcamps, hackathons and innovation expos to Starbucks Technology and business teams. Their work is grounded in the conviction that when learning experiences are tended to and curated with intention and care, we can refresh and renew organizational potential by unleashing confidence, curiosity and attention. In turn, confident, curious and attentive individuals and teams see and create new possibilities.
- Culture, People, Leadership & Agility