Innovation & Strategy
In addition to Net Power & Light, Tara Lemmey has founded multiple companies in both the private and public sectors. Most recently, she led the strategy for Ribbit, acquired by British Telecom in 2008, and served on the board of Discovery Mining, acquired by Interwoven, now part of HP.
She is also chairperson of LENS, an innovation strategy firm that works with leading institutions in creating next markets. She has advised senior executives of nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies, including Intel, American Express, and the Lumina Foundation on innovation, next-generation strategies, new markets, and investments and acquisitions.
Lemmey speaks regularly on innovation in the industry, government, academia, and nonprofit sectors—most recently at Techonomy 2012 and 2011, Digital Media and Learning Conference 2011, TED India 2010, Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference 2009. She is a delegate to the FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit and a frequent participant at the Aspen Institute, most recently contributing to "Solving the Dilbert Paradox", a report from the Aspen Round Table on Talent Development published in 2011.
Lemmey was profiled as one of the six protagonists in The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison), "this year's must-read book on innovation" in 2010 (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) endorsed by Bill Clinton, Walter Isaacson, Eric Schmidt and other policy and business leaders.
" Although this journey will begin with individuals, it will never achieve its potential until and unless we bring our institutions along as well. We cannot afford to jettison our institutions. Properly refocused, they provide us with unparalleled opportunities that we simply could not replicate as isolated individuals. The examples of people such as Joi Ito, Yossi Vardi, Ellen Levy, Jack Hidary, and Tara Lemmey stand out as exceptional in part because few of us have yet to fully grasp the implications and practices required to maximize value from these foundational forces."
John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison. The Power of Pull, p. 318.
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