48 min
Dr Sarah Pearson: Innovation, entrepreneurs and foreign policy Good Future
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Innovation is not often associated with government departments. But that’s changing, thanks to my guest, Dr Sarah Pearson.
She’s Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Scientist at the InnovationXchange, within Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). On Episode 6 of the Good Future podcast.
She’s disrupting government, she’s injecting her experience of scientific collaboration and commercialisation to retrofit DFAT as an entrepreneurial leader. She wants to empower the Asia-Pacific region with more than just grants, she wants to help build businesses, in the hope of driving truly sustainable development.
She’s had a remarkable career. She started as a physicist, it gave her a solid scientific foundation and it’s left its make on all of her work. And she spent some time as a consultant at McKinsey.
We talked about the challenges of driving change in a government department, about the huge opportunities that lie in unlocking the entrepreneurial potential of our neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region, we looked at impact investing and we dipped into how to balance family, career and productivity.
Please do enjoy this conversation with Dr Pearson, I got so much out of it.
And I’d love to hear your thoughts, please leave me a review on iTunes.
Or drop me a line on my website: johntreadgold.com
Innovation is not often associated with government departments. But that’s changing, thanks to my guest, Dr Sarah Pearson.
She’s Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Scientist at the InnovationXchange, within Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). On Episode 6 of the Good Future podcast.
She’s disrupting government, she’s injecting her experience of scientific collaboration and commercialisation to retrofit DFAT as an entrepreneurial leader. She wants to empower the Asia-Pacific region with more than just grants, she wants to help build businesses, in the hope of driving truly sustainable development.
She’s had a remarkable career. She started as a physicist, it gave her a solid scientific foundation and it’s left its make on all of her work. And she spent some time as a consultant at McKinsey.
We talked about the challenges of driving change in a government department, about the huge opportunities that lie in unlocking the entrepreneurial potential of our neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region, we looked at impact investing and we dipped into how to balance family, career and productivity.
Please do enjoy this conversation with Dr Pearson, I got so much out of it.
And I’d love to hear your thoughts, please leave me a review on iTunes.
Or drop me a line on my website: johntreadgold.com
48 min