Short bio

Tamara Carleton, PhD, is an award-winning professor, industry advisor, and author of radical innovation and strategic foresight. She holds the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Leadership for Innovative and Better Futures and is the Distinguished Global Professor of Radical Innovation at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. Tamara also holds several other academic positions around the world, including in Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, and Japan. She has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in Education (in 2023 and 2024) by Women We Admire. Tamara is also the founder and CEO of the Innovation Leadership Group, which helps leaders and teams to build innovation capacity and map bold futures. She has written several seminal books in innovation, including the award-winning Building Moonshots: 50+ Ways to Turn Radical Ideas into Reality and the Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation. She holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

Extra short bio

Tamara Carleton, PhD, is an international expert in radical innovation. She is the CEO of Innovation Leadership Group, teaches at several business schools and technical universities worldwide, and has written several seminal books including Building Moonshots.

Personal

On a personal note, Tamara Carleton grew up traveling and has had adventures across 23 countries so far – from training leaders in South Africa's National School of Government and petting African lion cubs carefully… to testing foresight tools with colleagues at three Finnish universities and sweating in Finland's oldest private sauna… to helping business managers to prototype their country's future in "Thailand 4.0" and getting the signature Thai massage... to studying abroad in New Zealand and seeing Te Rerenga Wairua by motorcycle where two oceans collide…. to teaching foresight strategy to top engineering teams in India and sightseeing 2,000-year-old Indian cave temples with wild monkeys. She continues to enjoy seeing different places and trying new experiences.

Friendly tip: Tamara is pronounced like (rhymes with) camera. 📸