Community learning is at the heart of Lean Startup Co. That’s why we’ve put together an intimate group of dedicated Lean Startup practitioners across a variety of sectors to represent Lean Startup Co., share their insights, and engage with the broader Lean Startup community.
Ambassadors are here to guide attendees through our annual conference in San Francisco (Oct. 31 – Nov. 6). Connect with them through Twitter, our attendee Slack channel, or find them during the conference!
Read Adam’s Roadmap / Meet Adam for Lunch
Adam travels the world asking entrepreneurs one question, “What problem are you solving?”.
He then helps them design and run experiments to help them identify and manage the biggest risks in their business model. He teaches entrepreneurs from early stage founders to massive global companies (& government agencies) to apply leanstartup and to practice hypothesis driven product development.
Read Ed’s Roadmap / Meet Ed for Lunch
Happy Person, Husband, Father, #LeanStartup #ServiceDesign practitioner. B4B #Gotomarket expert, Harley rider, Ice Hockey amateur. TED fanatic.
Co-founder of StartupCisco, a grassroots initiative aimed at reigniting entrepreneurial spirit at Cisco Systems.
CEO & Co-founder of Hivelab.co, a global community and incubator built around service thinking and entrepreneurship.
CEO & Co-founder of ServiceDesignSprints.com: Learn how to innovate Services and become part of the Sprint Masters Global Community by attending one of our boot camps.
Read Rosemary’s Roadmap / Meet Rosemary for Lunch
Rosemary shares organizational agility insights with leaders based on her expertise in lean, agile, analytics, product development and PMO practices. She is hailed for her ability to tailor industry standard practices to their unique needs and environments. Contact her at linkedin.com/in/rosemaryhossenlopp
Read Cynthia’s Roadmap / Meet Cynthia for Lunch
Cynthia works to create a living economy with people and planet at the center. Her approach combines expertise in strategy and analytics with biomimcry and systems thinking. She is Founder of GatherWell, a hub for purpose-driven Entrepreneurs, and Co-Founder of Living Economy Advisors, building the regenerative economy.
She was a Partner at the Inc 5000 Management Consulting firm Fitzgerald Analytics. Clients included Fortune 500 companies in financial services, technology and automotive sectors. She also co-founded their Social Sector practice. She has written for Business Insider, Idealist, Living Cities and the Inter-American Development Bank. Her first book is coming in 2017.
Read Hien’s Roadmap / Meet Hien for Lunch
Hien is an entrepreneur and blogger based out of Ann Arbor, MI. He believes that who we are “is the sum of our habits,” so his blog, Chillpill, teaches people how to create habits of success.
When Hien isn’t blogging, speaking, or coaching his clients, you can find him out enjoying a run, authoring his first book, or running his digital marketing business.
Read Prem’s Roadmap / Meet Prem for Lunch
Prem Ranganath is an energetic intrapreneur, change agent and servant leader with experience in influencing and leading teams towards a culture of quality, innovation and operational excellence.
Prem is always ready to challenge the status quo, comfortable working with ambiguity and persistent about results. He enjoys working with teams especially on projects at the intersection of design and technology and loves the challenge of balancing agility and discipline.
Prem blogs on Medium as part of ASQ’s Influential Voices program.
Read Sukh’s Roadmap / Meet Sukh for Lunch
Sukh studied Technology Information Management at UC Santa Cruz and is taking a break to pursue his start-up, Code Naturally. Code Naturally teaches 3rd-9th graders to apply the math their learning in class to building projects using code within their app. He loves working with students to directly learn about their needs. He regularly teaches classes and educator workshops in Santa Cruz. Sukh is passionate about ending homelessness in his community and is working with the Santa Cruz Public Library to form an Education Resource Center to teach local homeless people about the opportunities that are available through pursuing their GED & higher education.
Read Richard’s Roadmap / Meet Richard for Lunch
Richard is involved with startups and saplings. He founded London’s largest Ruby on Rails development agency, Unboxed, and techqala, a 9 day startup accelerator in Cape Town, as well as being involved as a mentor in several London based, purpose-led businesses. Richard’s passion for new ideas has seen him helping Unboxed’s corporate customers adopt lean product exploration and develop his own product ideas using the Lean Startup principles. He’s a past master at failing fast.
Read Daniel’s Roadmap / Meet Daniel for Lunch
Daniel is an entrepreneur, product development coach, and solutions engineer.
He is a passionate advocate for Lean, Agile, and system engineering methods and practices with 20 years of engineering and product development experience. Prior to founding nuCognitive, he was an engineering manager and senior consultant at Intel Corp. Over the years, he has developed heuristics for successful, sustainable transformations that scale.
Daniel is a graduate of MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program. He has dedicated his career to developing new products and bringing them to market. His current areas of focus include organizational transformations, entrepreneurship, solutions thinking, and complex systems.