Deidre Paknad
CEO and Co-founder, WorkBoard
Deidre is a 3x company founder and CEO, and a former executive at IBM. She’s led high growth organizations stand alone and inside large enterprises, with a unique view on the best of both worlds. Her work with company leaders on strategy and its execution fuel her passion to amplify high performance patterns and remove common barriers.
Deidre holds over a dozen patents and has twice been inducted into the Smithsonian Institution for innovation. She’s been featured in several books on entrepreneurship and is a guest lecturer at Stanford, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon graduate schools.