Author, Public Speaker, Award Winning Entrepreneur & Professor, Northeastern University Boston, USA
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Prof. Loredana Padurean

Author, Speaker and Global Academic Leader

Ass. Professor Northeastern University Boston

The Job Is Easy, The People are Not! Get your EBOOK on Amazon Kindle today!

The Job Is Easy, The People are Not! Get your EBOOK on Amazon Kindle today!


INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEADERSHIP

LET’S WORK TOGETHER!


“Loredana was so good on Zoom that I almost fell of my chair with insights and laughter!” MIT SLOAN participant, 2022

“Nothing about her is normal: her ideas, her approach, her words, her energy!”


“Dynamic, engaging, thoughtful, thought provoking, and funny”

“Her presence alone electrifies any room!”


  • Numerous studies demonstrate that working with people is the most stressful part of a job. In my book, I explore this topic and I propose 10 essential skills identified from my experience as an academic leader, skills that I coined as “smart”, (to replace the “soft”), such as validation, emotional maturity, followership, cognitive readiness, humility, productive inclusion and more.

    If you are interested in learning more about my work and this book, make sure you contact me and I would love to have a conversation with you!

    https://www.prof-loredana.com/the-job-is-easy

    Thank you, Loredana

  • For the past 10 years, together with Prof. Charles Fine we have been developing a new framework to understand the complex journey that successful companies went on from a start-up to scale-up to a sail-up with a focus on understanding specifically the nature of scaling and the role that entrepreneurial operations play in this stage. While hundreds of papers and books exist on entrepreneurial marketing and finance, entrepreneurial operations get far less attention. Furthermore, much of the literature in operations strategy and management addresses challenges of companies in stable (sailing) environments, leaving entrepreneurs with little theoretical or practical guidance on early stage operations strategy.

    READ MORE AT https://operations4entrepreneurs.com

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The Job is Easy, The People are Not! 10 Smart Skills to Become Better People.

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What makes your job hard? Most likely is working with others, right? Numerous studies demonstrate that working with people is the most stressful part of a job. In this book, I share in 10 candid and authentic interviews, with professional managers and academic leaders from Asia School of Business and MIT Sloan, 10 essential skills that I coined as “smart” skills, (to replace the “soft” skills), such as validation, emotional maturity, followership, cognitive readiness and more. In the 10 interviews, you will hear how “regular” people navigate the complex waters of working with others, will get practical suggestions about how to develop your own smart skills, and realize that you are also one of the people that makes the job harder than it should be!

Visit www.smartXsharp.com to learn more!


Read about the smart - not soft - skills in the MIT SLOAN - IDEAS MADE TO MATTER!



The distinguished woman entrepreneur lifetime achievement award!

I am extraordinarily grateful for this honor presented to me at the World Women Economic and Business Summit in Kuala Lumpur, in July 2022. I humbly accept the award and share it with my team who is 100% the reason I have any kind of success in my life! Thank you!



2200 people at TedEx Cluj Napoca - What if?

The largest TEDx in SE Europe took place in Cluj Napoca on June 29, 2019 at Sala Polivalenta, on the theme “What if?” I spoke on “What if you’d know what the journey of becoming an entrepreneur looks like?’

I have to admit that facing an audience of over 2200 people is not something that I know how to prepare for, but one thing I really tried to achieve was to acknowledge every section in this room, even though I was hard to see all the way in the back.

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The amazing thing about this convention center and this people was that even at this size we the speakers could feel the love from the audience. Thank you Cluj Napoca, I had a blast!

TedX Cluj Napoca “What if”

TedX Cluj Napoca “What if”