ABSTRACT
Jeanne Liedtka is a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Formerly the Executive Director of the School’s Batten Institute, a foundation established to develop thought leadership in the fields of entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, Jeanne has also served as Chief Learning Officer for the United Technologies Corporation (UTC), headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, and as the Associate Dean of the MBA Program at Darden. Jeanne’s current teaching responsibilities focus on design thinking, innovation, and organic growth in the MBA and Executive Education Programs at Darden. She also teaches an elective course in Strategy Consulting, as well as a course focused on Strategy as a design process, conducted in Barcelona, Spain. She has consulted with a wide variety of organizations and their leaders, from museums to law firms to large corporations, on this topic. Her new book, The Catalyst: How YOU Can Lead Extraordinary Growth, co-authored with R. Rosen and R. Wiltbank, based on a three-year Batten Institute study of operating managers who excelled at producing revenue growth in mature organizations, was published in March, 2009. Jeanne received her DBA in Management Policy from Boston University and her MBA from the Harvard Business School. She has been involved in the corporate strategy field since beginning her career as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.
