Andrea is an Innovation Consultant and Business Developer, who helps organisations reinvent themselves by the power of intrapreneurship and innovation networks. She is familiar with both technology- and consumer-led innovation, internal and open innovation projects, complex research and development projects and product development portfolios.
Andrea started her career in IT as a software developer at Ericsson, later a software project and program manager for increasingly complex, international scale development projects. She has led and successfully transformed traditional serial projects and programmes to iterative, agile delivery.
Later, becoming an independent consultant, Andrea trained and consulted in Operational PMO / COO contexts in global brands retail, automotive, banking and FMCG. Andrea is a specialist in achieving a business which is able to renew itself: strategic agility, adaptable organisational designs, adaptable governance and a learning culture. Andrea founded and leads Lean Advantage Ltd, a group of consultancy and training companies set across the UK and Switzerland.
Andrea has an MBA from INSEAD, is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an IDEO trained Design Thinking Programme facilitator.
As a volunteer PMI conference organiser in Hungary and frequent speaker at PMI UK, Andrea has relocated to Switzerland Zürich in 2024. She is excited to meet fellow professionals and push the art of possible together.
You can learn more about Andrea by visiting her LinkedIn profile.