San Francisco Bay Area
Diana Joseph leads the Corporate Accelerator Forum (CAF), corporateacceleratorforum.com. CAF unlocks open innovation for large organizations, and supports startups through Click | the Startup Accelerator for Corporate Partnership. Her book, Open Innovation Works: Successfully Leveraging Your External Ecosystem for Impactful Change is available for pre-order now, shipping starting January 30, 2026. Diana believes that everyone needs to be more entrepreneurial. A former high-tech innovation director with a doctorate in Learning Sciences, Diana brings together techniques from motivation psychology, education, and Silicon Valley innovation methods such as design thinking and Lean Startup. Diana's consultancy helps individuals and organizations become more innovative and entrepreneurial by balancing compliance-based and initiative-based work. Diana speaks about open innovation, leadership alignment, corporate partnership, connecting across ecosystems, and vibecoding. Startup coach and mentor, board leader. AI adoption strategy and hackathons for non-programmers. Key interests: Learning, self-determination & agency, democratizing AI, design thinking, lean startup, creative confidence, organizational innovation culture, random music gigs on the instrument of the week. she/her
Founder and leader of the Corporate Accelerator Forum, serving corporate innovators who work with startups, and startups who work with corporates. Delivering the tools, stories, relationships and experiences corporates need to unlock open innovation, and helping startups get ready for corporate partnership through corporateacceleratorforum.com/click
Creation, design and instruction for AI in Business Immersion.
Teach open innovation, mentor student innovation and entrepreneurship projects.
It's instinctive for human beings to behave like entrepreneurs -- identifying opportunities, driving forward, problem-solving, persevering, adjusting based on real-world feedback. Most of us have unlearned these behaviors through well-intentioned schooling and the tightly-coupled organizations in which we work. We need to get these entrepreneurial behaviors back in order to thrive in today's climate of technological, economic and institutional change. I can help if: *You lead an organization that needs more entrepreneurial behavior from its employees or volunteers *Your employees are leaving for more innovative organizations *You are an employee and your organization isn't taking advantage of the best stuff you can bring *You want to start something of your own but don't know what steps to take *You have had independence thrust upon you and need to figure out your path
*Strategic and tactical guidance for industry-leading customer education team *Strategic planning for future employee education program *Innovation strategy