About Sandra
Sandra Lam is a corporate innovation practitioner. She was the Senior Vice President, Innovation Catalyst, and Partnerships Lead at Citi Innovation Lab, a team within Citi which specializes in new product development, intrapreneurship, and external partnerships.
Sandra has more than 15 years of experience in the field of corporate innovation and the financial industry. She is a frequent keynote speaker at global innovation and FinTech forums. She has worked with leaders and managers globally to deliver innovative solutions.
She has launched and managed intrapreneurship programs in large corporations to transform employees into founders. She has also led open innovation with outreach of more than thousands of FinTechs globally.
Sandra holds a Sloan Fellows MBA degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds a master’s degree of IT in business from Singapore Management University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Hong Kong. Her background across business and technology has enabled her to navigate technological advancement in a dynamic and ever-changing business landscape.
About Intrapreneurship
The pace of change has accelerated. Once, corporates were built to last for a century. Now, they might only last a decade. The pace of change is driven by the disruptive innovations brought about by the era of Industry 5.0. Today, how you empower your employees by building and managing intrapreneurship can make a difference to your business’s survival and profitability in this rapidly changing environment.
As a corporate leader, you do not need to be the sole innovator for your business. Imagine that all your employees are proactively engaged in discovering new value. Their ideas could be the future drivers of your business. As a leader, your job is to be the corporate architect and craft an ecosystem that offers the components to help evaluate and develop those ideas. There’s no doubt that the work required to build intrapreneurship is extensive but the return is worth the investment. It can open up new business opportunities and create competitive advantages that the management team might never have thought of.
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