About Lean Startup Company | Lean Startup Co.

Born from the global movement spawned by author Eric Ries’ books, Lean Startup Co. is a central hub for learning advanced management practices that transform culture, drive long-term growth, and connect you with innovation experts.

By making entrepreneurship a core function of every organization, we can solve some of the world’s biggest problems. We teach organizations everywhere — regardless of size, sector or age — how to innovate in a fast-changing world and build products that matter. We do this by offering live events, an education program, and a library of online media resources.

Founders

Eric Ries

Co-Founder

Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Todays Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business, published by Crown Business.

Heather McGough

CEO & Co-Founder

Heather McGough is CEO and Co-Founder of Lean Startup Company. She aims to transform the way people think and work in the 21st century by empowering the community with modern management education specifically designed for a fast-moving world. The first seven years of her career were spent in the nonprofit sector which still influences much of her work today.

Team

Andy Archer

Account Manager

Andy Archer is an Account Manager for Lean Startup Co.'s Education Program. With a background in entrepreneurship, project management and account management, he works with clients to ensure their training, coaching and consulting engagements with Lean Startup Co. are a success.

Anita Law

Business Development Manager

Anita Law is Lean Startup Co.'s Business Development Manager and brings years of sales experience from Asia to San Francisco. She is immersed in discovering new companies who can benefit from sponsoring Lean Startup Week, so that she can help fund her Salsa dancing addiction.

Ann Mei Chang

Executive Director of Lean Impact

Ann Mei Chang served as the Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director of the U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID.

CJ Legare

Events & Media Producer

CJ brings with her to the Lean Startup Co. team a background in experiential marketing, and film/TV production. She supports the Labs team logistically with events, and special projects.

Felicia Chanco

Production Manager

Felicia Chanco's first exposure to Lean Startup Co. was when she volunteered at the conference in 2014. Since then, she has joined the team as Lean Startup Week's Editorial Program Coordinator and Webcast Production Manager.

Heather Wilson, CMP

Executive Producer

With seventeen years experiential marketing, event, brand and agency experience, Heather previously directed multi-channel event marketing programs in the U.S., Latin America, Asia and Europe. She has significant experience with the implementation of social/digital strategy and interpretation of social analytics as well as event and program management roles in the government, healthcare and wireless industries.

Katie Wilks

Sales Coordinator

Katie has been helping businesses succeed through sales and development for eight years, with a strong background in tourism-based economies. She joined Lean Startup Co. to support the Education team and client happiness.

Kirsten Cluthe

Editorial Strategist

Kirsten Cluthe is editorial director for Lean Startup Co. With an extensive background in programming, production, and talent management, she aims to bring the most interesting and relevant speakers to the Lean Startup stage, alongside world class conference experiences.

Leeann Trang

Business Operations Consultant

With over a decade of experience advising executive teams and streamlining business operations, Leeann leads business optimization efforts for the Lean Startup Co. Labs Education team.

Marilyn Gorman

Faculty Lead

Marilyn Gorman is a highly experienced learning professional, facilitator and executive coach. Using Lean Startup and change-management practices, she has been able to deliver key cultural outcomes, helping business leaders around the world build credibility and confidence through challenging and application-rich training solutions focused on delivering business impact.

Monte Warren

Account & Client Engagement Manager

Monte Warren is the Account & Client Engagement Manager for Lean Startup Co. Labs. He provides continuous client support for the corporate education program, helping to ensure successful training, coaching and consulting engagements.

Sinéad Clarkin

Senior Strategist

Sinéad brings to Lean Startup Co. over 17 years of international and cross-functional experience in the Financial Services, Industrial and Digital sectors.

Stacy Conlon

Director of Business Development

Stacy Conlon is the Director of Business Development for Lean Startup Company’s Education Program. With more than 15 years experience in sales and marketing, Stacy helps large, complex organizations around the world get the tools and support they need to build products and services faster, minimize risk and create a framework for innovation.