In this episode of The Entrepreneur to Author Podcast, your host Scott MacMillan is joined by Andrea Kates, author of From Stuck to Scale and former Silicon Valley Tech CEO. Andrea is passionate about ensuring great ideas don’t die on the vine. She shares her expertise in helping corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and scale-ups harness the tools needed to successfully transform innovative ideas into scalable, breakthrough businesses.
GUEST BIO
Andrea Kates focuses on taking business from stuck to scale, by addressing critical questions: Why don’t the best ideas become the best businesses? Why do important initiatives die on the vine? She works with entrepreneurs and leaders of large organizations to break through barriers and drive growth.
Andrea is a former Silicon Valley tech CEO, MIT Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Sloan School of Management, and Senior Fellow at The Conference Board. She’s advised companies across 5 continents like Ford, Fujitsu, Intel, KK Wind, Mayo Clinic, and Tata.
Her new book, From Stuck to Scale, integrates insights from working with 13,000 teams and diagnoses exactly what it takes to help corporate teams and ecosystem leaders succeed in bringing new initiatives all the way across the finish line.
A highly sought-after speaker, Andrea has keynoted on the TED main stage, CXO Forum in Tokyo, Edison Awards, Qintess (Brazil), Dubai 2020, Connect Bogota, and RUFORUM Africa. Above all else, Andrea loves to help leaders achieve higher levels of impact.
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