Nilufer Erdebil

CEO

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada28 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder and CEO of Spring2 Innovation.
  • Expert in Design Thinking and innovation methodologies.
  • Award-winning speaker and author on organizational change.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Design Thinking and Innovation Consultant specializing in organizational change and strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Design ThinkingInnovation Consulting

Other Skills

Change ManagementManagement ConsultingStrategyInnovationTelecommunicationsProject ManagementProduct ManagementIntegrationWirelessTechnology TrendsInformation Technology StrategyBusiness StrategyIPEntrepreneurshipMobile Devices

About

I was first introduced to Design Thinking when I was working in an innovation lab where we brought in customers as we were prototyping and testing solutions. It was amazing to hear first hand the thoughts and ideas they had as they saw our prototypes. I fell in love with the concept of bringing customers along as you build, and truly understanding the problem a customer is trying to solve. This led me to founding Spring2 Innovation. As the founder and CEO, I lead a team that provides Design Thinking and innovation training, coaching and consulting to businesses and governments. Our goal is to empower our clients to unlock their creativity, knowledge, and empathy. This approach to solving complex problems provides the clarity needed to create innovative solutions, structures, and methodologies. Design Thinking enables teams and leaders to achieve optimal performance in everything they do, delivering increased revenue, better services, future-ready policies, and more timely and targeted products. The Spring2 Innovation Design Thinking methodology can help organizations and governments in all facets of their operations, including: User-Centered Services and Design - Understand the true problem you need to solve - Include your users in your journey - Prototype and test real world solutions Employee Retention - Use empathy to understand your employees - Create an environment of trust and curiosity - Give employees a sense of belonging to your organization and their team members Changing Customers - Understanding how customers have changed - Delight customers and increase customer loyalty - Create a plan with your employees to create better products and services and sell more I enjoy meeting new people and learning about the challenges they are facing in their work environments, and how Design Thinking can help. Reach out to me if you want to talk about employee retention, Design Thinking and change management, or figure skating!

Experience

Canadian women in communications and technology

2 roles

National Board Member - Chair of Regions

Feb 2015Feb 2020 · 5 yrs

Chair of National Capital Region

Jul 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

Spring2 innovation

CEO and Design Thinking & Innovation Consultant

Apr 2011Present · 14 yrs 11 mos

  • Spring2 Innovation provides strategy, management consulting and change management consulting services to public and private sector organizations. Companies can than better innovate and get products and services to market faster and more successfully. We help companies look for the things they aren’t looking for and bring those insights together to bring about innovation.
Design ThinkingInnovation ConsultingChange ManagementManagement ConsultingStrategy

Queen's school of business ottawa alumni board member

Board Member

Jan 2011Feb 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Canadian women in communications

Vice Chair of National Capital Region

Jan 2010Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Bell canada

3 roles

Associate Director - SMB Access

Promoted

Sep 2008Apr 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

Innovation Centre Program Manager

Apr 2005Aug 2008 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Associate Director IT

May 2003Apr 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos

Marconi wireless

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2001Jan 2002 · 1 yr

Crosskeys

Software Designer

Jan 1999Jan 2001 · 2 yrs

Procter & gamble

Business Development Team

May 1996Sep 1996 · 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

General dynamics

Software Engineer

Jan 1996Jan 1999 · 3 yrs

Education

Queen's University

MBA — MBAst

Jan 2002Jan 2003

Queen's University

B.Sc. — Electrical Engineering

Jan 1992Jan 1996

windsor park

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