Laura Schroeder (Past Speaker)

Laura Schroeder is an experienced brand and innovation consultant who has worked in the HR technology space for 15 years as an advisor, marketer, and solution strategist at leading organizations such as PeopleSoft, Oracle and Workday. She holds post-graduate certifications in Strategic Human Resources Practices from Cornell University and in Design Thinking from MIT Sloan School of Management. Her articles and interviews have been published in the US, Europe and Asia and she regularly contributes to popular blogs such as Compensation Cafe, Hacking HR, and Let’s Grow Leaders.  As a global executive, she applied agile and design thinking methodologies to drive innovation and bottom-line performance.  Today she works with companies that want to scale operations, reduce complexity and take their performance to the next level with a pragmatic, gamified approach to design thinking and innovation. In 2018 she co-founded Red Rocks Impact, an investment firm dedicated to creating positive social and environmental impact.