Andrea Meyer, MIS, COI, DTM

Experience

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  The University of Texas at Austin

  Jun 1982 - Aug 1983

  Center for Cognitive Science Research Assistant II

  designed and conduced reading readiness experiments, which included administering pretests, designing test layout and graphics, conducting the tests, and performing statistical analysis

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  IBM

  Jan 1985 - Jan 1986

  Librarian - GSLIS program

  * Provided information service to engineers, scientists, and managers to assist in new product development, competitor analysis and breakthrough research. * Performed daily online database searches in BRS, Dialog, Dow Jones, and ITIRC. * Provided individual and group instruction in the use of online databases.* Wrote articles for Creativity, IBM-Austin's journal for technical professionals* Authored Technical Report on Reference Interviewing

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  CareerTrack, Inc.

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1988

  Research Specialist, Program Development

  * Wrote and coordinated the production of workbooks to accompany seminars (which were attended by 400,000 people annually)* Established and managed the corporate library* Co-authored one audio tape and contributed research to three videotapes* Wrote the Leader's Guide and curriculum outline for In Search of Excellence -- The Seminar* Conducted research for Ken Blanchard for The Power of Ethical Management* Wrote two weekly columns and one monthly column* CareerTrack was the 10th fastest-growing, privately-held company in the U.S. while I worked there Show less

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  Working Knowledge

  Jan 1988 - now

  President

  * Writer/Ghostwriter of 39 books, 450 case studies and company profiles, 87 conference reports, 32 best practices reports, 24 industry studies as well as white papers, training manuals, and countless articles & website content. * Clients include McKinsey & Company • MIT • IBM • Harvard Business School • Stanford • Wharton • Tuck • Kellogg • Ross • IMD • Young President's Organization (YPO) • Prentice Hall • McGraw-Hill • Cengage • Innosight • Invention Machine • Cisco • Innocentive • Forrester Research • London Business School • Carnegie Mellon • Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) • MetLife • SAP • AARP • Fisher Investments • Fast Company magazine • Tom Peters • MIT Press • Lucent Press • French Ministry of Education • Norwegian Center for Leadership Development • Babson College • USC • UT-Austin • SMU • Walden University • Healthways• SynerMed Communications • Human 1.0 • Oracle • ICEX• FutureThink Consulting Group • Benchmarking Partners* Working Knowledge® blog featured on Guy Kawasaki's Alltop Innovation* Syndicated columnist/blogger on Innovation Excellence* Syndicated columnist/blogger on CustomerThink* Syndicated columnist/blogger on Huffington Post• Syndicated columnist/blogger on CollaborativeInnovation* Contributed to Philip Kotler's Marketing Management textbook* Worked with MIT Sloan School Dean on his Digital Marketing Strategies textbook• Completed multiple series of reference cases documenting enterprise software implementations and innovative uses of IT to achieve business goals (SAP, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, etc.)* Wrote case studies for Tom Peters (the coauthor of In Search of Excellence). Identified target companies, conducted interviews at all company levels, and wrote cases used in Liberation Management, The Tom Peters Seminar, On Achieving Excellence newsletter, nationally syndicated columns.* Project manager of the Interesting Organizations database at MIT Sloan School of Management Show less

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  Speaker/Workshop Leader

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1989

  European Conference on Creativity and Innovation

  Wrote and presented “Strategies for Stimulating Innovation in Your Organization” workshop at the 2nd European Conference on Creativity and Innovation.

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  Speaker/Workshop Leader, College for Effective Speaking

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1989

  National Speakers Association

  Speaker, "How to Make Your Research Come Alive" at the College for Effective Speaking by the National Speakers Association for the Colorado chapter.

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  Speaker/Workshop Leader for the Rocky Mountain Publishing Professionals Guild

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2009

  Using Social Media to Advance Your Business
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  Speaker/Workshop Leader, BWA Expo Expert Showcase

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2009

  Social Media Strategies for Growing Your Business
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  Summit Opening Speaker

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2010

  Innovation3: Crowdsourcing, Culture & Tools
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  Webinar Presenter

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2012

  Collaborative Innovation: The State of Engagement
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  Transportation Research Board of the National Academies

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2013

  City Logistics Symposium Review: Areas for Possible Research (Presentation)

  Presented two sessions at the First EU-U.S. Transportation Research Symposium held in Washington, D.C., May 30-31, 2013.

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  National Academy of Sciences

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2013

  Rapporteur for Transportation Research Board

  Presented "Summary of Day 1" on the morning of Day 2 of the symposium, identifying the key points from each of the presentations given. Presented "Summary of Day 2" at the close of Day 2, identifying the cross-cutting themes of the symposium.Wrote "City Logistics Research: A Transatlantic Perspective," published by the National Academy of Sciences in December 2013, based on the first EU-US Transportation Research Symposium.

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  European Commission

  Apr 2014 - now

  Rapporteur for Horizon 2020

  Wrote the conference proceedings of the "EU-US Transportation Research Symposium on Transport Research Implementation: The Application of Research Outcomes," held in Paris in April 2014, to be published by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences.

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  University of Michigan Ross School of Business

  Jun 2014 - now

  Case Writing Expert

  Consultant to the William Davidson Institute as a Case Writing Expert for STRIDE, a USAID economic development program that seeks to promote Philippine university engagement with the country's industrial sector through case study workshops for business school faculty. Duties include deployment to the Philippines to assist in teaching Case Writing workshops and to provide one-on-one coaching and mentoring of faculty to develop high-quality cases (worthy of publication) for business and STEM graduate and undergraduate courses. Show less

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  Collaborative Innovation in Business and Entrepreneurship

  Apr 2015 - Apr 2015

  Speaker

  Presented a workshop to 200 attendees at the Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT) in Manila, Philippines.

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  How to Generate New Business Ideas

  Apr 2015 - Apr 2015

  Workshop Leader
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  U.S. Department of State

  Apr 2015 - now

  Professional Speaker

  Speaking internationally on business innovation and entrepreneurship for the U.S. Department of State's U.S. Speaker Program.