Executive Education Event English

From Innovation Opportunity to Venture: Navigating Uncertainty in Corporate Entrepreneurship

Join this exclusive masterclass with Joanne Hyland to discover how innovation opportunities can be transformed into successful business ventures. You will learn how to turn uncertainty into actionable learning, align experiments with future-focused strategies, and master the critical transition from experiment to venture. Gain practical insights and inspiration to strengthen your innovation leadership and drive sustainable corporate growth.

Key outcomes for participants:

Understand innovation and corporate entrepreneurship
Knowledge about how to align learning experiments with future-focused strategies
Master the transition from experiment to venture
Embrace uncertainty as a learning journey
Gain inspiration to drive corporate growth

This masterclass is designed for leaders and executives who want to move beyond the disruption hype and build a sustainable, full-spectrum innovation strategy.

Here are the details:

Date and time: 11th november 2025 16:00-18:15

Place: DTU Lyngby Campus, Kollegiebakken Building 421, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Program:

16:00-16:15 Arrival & Networking: Glass of wine and snacks in the canteen
16:15–18:00 Alumni Master Class with Joanne Hyland including Q&A
18:00-18:15 Thanks for today

We hope to see you there!

Speaker

Joanne Hyland

Co-founder & President of the rInnovation Group

Joanne Hyland is Co-founder & President of the rInnovation Group, an ISO innovation management standards expert, and an ISPIM (International Society for Professional Innovation Management) Fellow as well as former Board Director. She is an accomplished innovation strategist, implementation expert, author and industry thought leader, with 25+ years of industry and consulting experience in leading, designing and implementing innovation strategies and management systems. The rInnovation Group’s client list includes organizations from diverse industries seeking to change their innovation game such as BASF, Bekaert, Bosch, Clariant, Danfoss, Evonik, Grundfos, HP, LEO Pharma, Moen, NOVA Chemicals, Novozymes, Shell, Tetra Pak, TUV Nord Group, US Air Force, Vestas and among others. Joanne was the former Vice President, New Venture Development, at Nortel Networks. There, she, with her start-up team, founded the internal venturing program, that led to 12 business start-ups, one of which reached a billion-dollar exit.

Joanne is co-editor and author: Changing the Dynamics and Impact of Innovation Management – A Systems Approach and the ISO Standard (World Scientific, October 2022), co-author: Towards a Management System Standard for Innovation (Journal of Innovation Management, 2021), co-author: Pivot – How Top Entrepreneurs Adapt and Change Course to Find Ultimate Success (Wiley, 2013), and author: What’s Next – Strategic Innovation (TATA Journal of Management, 2012). She is a faculty member at the Danish Technical University (DTU) in its Certificate for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL™) program. Joanne has been involved in corporate entrepreneurship programs at Babson College, Danish Business Institute, MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Stanford University, TATA Management Training Center (TMTC) and Industrial Research Institute (IRI).