A Conversation on Corporate Strategy, with Amy Radin

In-depth with ITL's Thought Leaders

March 8, 2021

With the pace of digitization increasing, people talk a lot about new business models, new products and new technologies that can transform sales and customer service, claims, underwriting and more -- but seldom about how the approach to formulating strategy must evolve.

In this webinar, Amy Radin makes a strong case for starting by reassessing what the customer needs in these changing times, both from a rational and from an emotional standpoint.

In this webinar, we'll cover:

Recognizing opportunity in times of crisis
Embracing digital transformation
Approaching customer experience from a position of empathy

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Speakers:

Amy Radin

Director, Advisor and Author

Amy Radin is a Director, Advisor and Author with Fortune 500 experience in consumer financial services and insurance at brands including American Express, Citi and Axa. Her book, The Change Maker’s Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation In Any Company was awarded the Book Excellence Best Business Book Award 2020. Learn more about Amy and her work at https://www.amyradin.com.

Paul Carroll

Editor-in-Chief, ITL

Paul is the co-author of “The New Killer Apps: How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Start-Ups” and “Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn From the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years” and the author of “Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM”, a major best-seller published in 1993. Paul spent 17 years at the Wall Street Journal as an editor and reporter. The paper nominated him twice for Pulitzer Prizes. In 1996, he founded Context, a thought-leadership magazine on the strategic importance of information technology that was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He is a co-founder of the Devil’s Advocate Group consulting firm.

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Join ITL's editor-in-chief Paul Carroll as he sits down to discuss corporate strategy with director, advisor, author and thought leader Amy Radin.

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Amy Radin

Amy Radin is a transformation strategist, a scholar-practitioner at Columbia University and an executive adviser.

She partners with senior executives to navigate complex organizational transformations, bringing fresh perspectives shaped by decades of experience across regulated industries and emerging technology landscapes. As a strategic adviser, keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, she helps leaders translate ambitious visions into tangible results that align with evolving stakeholder expectations.

At Columbia University's School of Professional Studies, Radin serves as a scholar-practitioner, where she designed and teaches strategic advocacy in the MS Technology Management program. This role exemplifies her commitment to bridging academic insights with practical business applications, particularly crucial as organizations navigate the complexities of Industry 5.0.

Her approach challenges traditional change management paradigms, introducing frameworks that embrace the realities of today's business environment – from AI and advanced analytics to shifting workforce dynamics. Her methodology, refined through extensive corporate leadership experience, enables executives to build the capabilities needed to drive sustainable transformation in highly regulated environments.

As a member of the Fast Company Executive Board and author of the award-winning book, "The Change Maker's Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any Company," Radin regularly shares insights that help leaders reimagine their approach to organizational change. Her thought leadership draws from both her scholarly work and hands-on experience implementing transformative initiatives in complex business environments.

Previously, she held senior roles at American Express, served as chief digital officer and one of the corporate world’s first chief innovation officers at Citi and was chief marketing officer at AXA (now Equitable) in the U.S.

Radin holds degrees from Wesleyan University and the Wharton School.

To explore collaboration opportunities or learn more about her work, visit her website or connect with her on LinkedIn.