Prof. Loredana Padurean is a global award-winning academic, entrepreneur, author and public speaker, with deep expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership, currently teaching at Northeastern University in Boston.
Her rich background as a faculty fellow at MIT Sloan and Senior Associate Dean at Asia School of Business, a prestigious venture with MIT Sloan in Malaysia, informed her recent leadership book "The Job is Easy, The People are Not" and her upcoming book on innovation called "Nail it, Scale it, Sail it - an Innovation"Odyssey in collaboration with MIT Sloan Professor Charles Fine.
She is a captivating TedX speaker, with over 350 events globally, and top-tier clients such as TBWA, State Street, China Construction Bank, European Commission, MITRE, Maybank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BCP Peru, and more. She is the winner of "Distinguished Woman Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award" at the World Women Economic & Business Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the winner of “Teaching Innovation & Excellence” award at Northeastern University.