Diana Spiridon

A growth strategist, venture builder and innovation enabler, I have a broad experience designing, leading and optimizing innovation programs/initiatives in large organizations as well as delivering end to end activities for business model innovation. I have spent the past 15 years applying customer centric innovation to help corporations transform and grow, working as a trusted C-suite advisor, developing strategies, leading product/venture teams, coaching startups, developing entrepreneurial capabilities.

A few highlights of my expertise include: • Design, implementation and optimization of corporate innovation programs and strategies for idea generation, product co-creation with customers, incubation and acceleration of internal/external startups • Design of innovative, sustainable new products and propositions, business models, ventures applying customer centric innovation; Design Thinking and Lean startup practitioner; workshop facilitator • Entrepreneurship, leading rapid validation and incubation of new products, de-risking new ideas and ensuring faster GTM; development of MVPs and experiments; working with tech teams and startups • Unlocking open innovation opportunities: scouting for capabilities, business models and solutions in the innovation and start-up ecosystem and developing partnerships to accelerate development and GTM of new solutions and business models • Coaching C-suite and startups on product and innovation techniques. Helping tech entrepreneurs / venture teams to find and scale business models. Former coach for Innovate UK technology start-ups.