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Chris Heemskerk

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The Innovation Alliance - Founder & CEO at The Innovation Alliance
📍 New York, New York, United States

Chris Heemskerk is an innovation leader and founder of The Innovation Alliance, leveraging his experience from Google and Apple to help organizations grow. He is an award-winning speaker and author of "The Innovation Scorecard™". Colleagues and clients describe him as phenomenal, insightful, and an amazing professional. He holds certifications from Harvard and Stanford.

Chris is passionate about lifelong learning and travels extensively for global speaking engagements at venues like the United Nations. He serves as visiting faculty at the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability, showing a commitment to purpose-driven innovation. He alternates between Europe and the US with his wife and son.

He was featured as an innovation advisor in a Harvard Business School case study documenting Google’s Innovation Labs.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
The Innovation Alliance - Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Priorities

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Corporate Innovation
His entire career, consultancy, book, and speaking engagements are centered on helping organizations build repeatable and scalable innovation engines.
Sustainable Growth
Serves as visiting faculty at the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability and speaks on applying innovation for sustainable development.
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Career

Work history

4-2023
The Innovation Alliance - Founder & CEO
The Innovation Alliance
10-2019 - 4-2023
Adjunct Faculty
EIIS - European Institute for Innovation and Sustainability
8-2016 - 4-2023
Head of Scaled Acquisitions, Google North America
Google
10-2014 - 7-2016
Senior New Business Development Manager
Google
1-2016 - 4-2016
Strategic Partnerships - rotation in the Channel Sales team
Google
In the press

Media appearances

Chris Heemskerk, ex Google Innovation Lab USA - BCC Speakers. Featured in Grupo BCC
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The Innovation Alliance - Keynote By Chris Heemskerk. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2018 - 2018
Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation. Executive Education in Boston
Harvard Business School
2023 - 2023
Design Thinking. Executive Education in Palo Alto
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
2019 - 2019
High Potentials Leadership Program. Executive Education in Boston
Harvard Business School
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