With 20+ years’ experience leading local and global product, digital, technology, agile, innovation and transformation businesses, Penelope is motivated by challenge and making things happen, whether change is in financial services, Fintech, Legaltech, Proptech, Healthtech, Climatetech and a stationery startup.
As an Award-winning intrapreneur, Penelope has led technology change programs for platforms that manage 10K staff and customers. Penelope has won the ANZIA Innovation Award for successfully delivering the 'Recovered failing' app project in all Australian schools. Penelopes tea, has also received the AIM Award for creating an integrated internal and customer communications powerhouse, saving $40M.
Past Talks
Do you continue to be puzzled by how hard it is to innovate or deliver products in your organisation? Do have the sense that much of what you do is a thankless task? Does it feel like the risks, to you and the company, sometimes outweigh the rewards? You’re not alone in feeling the promise of innovation is often elusive, that uncertainty, unknowns and ambiguity, although exciting for some, are energy-sapping for many. Innovation, like finding love, is hard.
Regardless of whether you’re an innovator, intrapreneur, product developer or change agent, your success is reliant on the ability to persevere, to sustain your energy, optimism, resilience and creativity for championing change in a system, a system often pitted against you because it’s largely driven by maintaining the status quo. But how do you do this? Your team knows their ‘Why’.
They come to work each day to do hard things, to lead and inspire; to help organisations connect, adapt and flourish. But, maybe, they're also looking for a little more help? Maybe a little more inspiration, more examples of how to create greater fulfillment and meaning between their roles and any organisation lucky enough to have them? Together we'll review the system, ideal cultural baseline and pragmatic tools and tactics to support your team in delivering value.
18 August 2022
Everyone is searching for innovation but there are many things that can be pushing back against new and experimental ideas. In this panel, we explore the different challenges facing governments, startups and large enterprises and what teams can do to foster innovation in their organisations.
18 August 2022
There are many ways to approach product development. Oftentimes companies go from ideation straight into the design process. In this session, Penelope will share how to approach the upfront work to better setup for success down the line. This talk will discuss:
- Optimising your chances of success by establishing a Lean Assessment Team
- How to validate ideas: What are the decision criteria?
- Ensuring you are hitting the right 'bets'