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Dr. Simone Bhan Ahuja Is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, thought leader, keynote speaker, and innovation strategist based in Minneapolis. She is best known as the founder of [Blood-Orange], the co-author of [Jugaad Innovation], and author of the forthcoming book Disrupt it Yourself (forthcoming [HarperCollins] Leadership Jan. 2018).

Dr. Bhan Ahuja advises fortune 500s on innovation, technology, and growth.

Career
Bhan Ahuja began her career in healthcare, earning a doctor dental surgery degree. She practiced dentistry full-time for one year before pursuing what led to her current path.

Ultimately documentary filmmaking, including a PBS series [Indique –Untold Stories of Contemporary India], which explored how innovation happens even in resource-constrained environments. This experience led to an advisory role at judge biz school U.Cambridge, in their center for India and global innovation[].

Books & Writing
Simone is the co-author of the international bestseller Jugaad Innovation – Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, and author of a forthcoming book on intrapreneurship, Disrupt-It-Yourself – Hacking the Corporation to Make it Fast, Fluid and Frugal, due out in 2018.

Her ethnographic research in India and secondary research led to her first book: Jugaad Innovation[], exploring the relevance of frugal innovation to a developed country context.

Dr. ... ‘ forthcoming book, Disrupt-It-yourself: Seven critical steps to hacking a better business. . . before the competition does (HarperCollins Leadership, January 2019)

Dr. … is also a regular contributor to the HBR online, where she frequently blogs about how traditional companies can drive disruptive innovation.

Public Speaking
Ahuja is a keynote speaker at board meetings and large-scale conferences for Fortune 500s and leading global NGOs on the topics of innovation, exponential organizations, and intrapreneurship. Her TEDx talk, Scarcity Reframed is Abundance shares her views on the value of innovation principles from emerging markets for developed economy industries.

Advisory & Consulting Services
Ahuja provides advisory and consulting services to Fortune 1000s across sectors ranging from healthcare to retail to manufacturing. She advises on innovation strategy, having built out several comprehensive innovation programs from discovery and ideation through to execution.

Awards and recognition
Guest Innovation Navigation on Wharton/Sirius Radio May 2014 Innovation expert on Wharton Professor David Robertson's Innovation Navigation (Sirius) with Scott Anthony and more.

Guest - BBC Forum Jan 2014 BBC Forum discussion focus on scarcity with Eldar Sharif

Shortlisted | Thinkers 50 Breakthrough Idea Award Oct 2013 Thinkers50 The Thinkers50 brand is admired globally for its objectivity and market intelligence, confirming its position as the leading independent authority in management ideas. The Thinkers50 Ranking remains the premier ranking of its kind, and the Thinkers50 Awards (introduced in 2011) are widely regarded as the “Oscars of management thinking”.

World Economic Forum Innovation Workshop - Invited Participant May 2013 World Economic Forum Participant in WEF small group innovation workshop in Dalian, China with 20 experts from global companies, consultancies, and academic institutions.

Pulitzer Center Grant Recipient Apr 2013 Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting With PBS NewsHour senior producer Fred de Sam Lazaro, recipient of a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting grant in support of a PBS NewsHour feature on social entrepreneurship. This segment showcases the remarkable story and highly effective hybrid business model of Dr. Achyuta Samanta and the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences in Orissa, India that puts up to 20,000 Adivasi (tribal) children through school at no cost every year.