Linda Yates
Linda Yates is the founder and CEO of Mach49, the Growth Incubator for Global Businesses. She is a seasoned CEO with over 30 years of experience creating global strategy and driving innovation for large multinationals around the world. She is the author of The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed, from Harvard Business Review Press, October 2022.
“We need our large companies to know how to disrupt, innovate, and experiment because they are the ones who can solve the world’s biggest problems.”
— Linda Yates
Innovation is the lifeblood of the start-up — from product to processes and culture to creativity. But innovation is just as essential for scale companies. So how do you keep the innovation flywheel spinning at all levels of scale? The answer according to Linda Yates is to seed every level of your company with an intrapreneurial mindset. As CEO of Mach49, an incubator for large global companies, Linda shares her vast experience and strategies for injecting intrapreneurial thinking and bias-to-action across hundreds of large-scale organizations.