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Kirsten Aune

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Director, Strategy and Innovation at General Mills
📍 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Kirsten Aune is the Director of Strategy and Innovation at General Mills, where she has worked for over 25 years. She is a recognized leader in corporate innovation, having developed an approach that generated over a billion dollars in new product revenue. She holds an MBA from the UMN Carlson School of Management.

She was a finalist for the InnoLead Impact Award for an innovation approach she created and presented an award at the same event in 2024.

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Experience
23 Years
Current Role
Director, Strategy and Innovation
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Corporate Innovation
Her team was a finalist for the InnoLead Impact Award, and she frequently speaks at and participates in innovation-focused industry events and roundtables.
New Product Revenue
She led the creation of an innovation framework at General Mills that has directly resulted in over a billion dollars in new product revenue.
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Career

Work history

8-2011
Director, Strategy and Innovation
General Mills
1-2007 - 8-2011
Senior Marketing Manager
General Mills
3-2002 - 1-2007
Marketing Manager
General Mills
Planner / Deveveloper
Marshall Field's
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Education
1997 - 1999
MBA
UMN Carlson School of Management
1989 - 1991
BA with Honors
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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