Linda Yates

<p>One of Silicon Valley’s most renowned thought leaders, Linda Yates leverages the secrets of venture-driven startups to help organizations build their own successful growth engines at rapid pace.</p><p>The ground beneath global businesses is shifting more rapidly than ever before. A startling revelation from the World Economic Forum paints a vivid picture: 40% of CEOs fear their companies won't withstand the next decade without transformative change. This isn't a distant threat—it's an immediate call to action. </p><p>Linda Yates is a seasoned CEO with over 30 years of experience creating global strategy and driving innovation for large multinationals around the world. As a native of Silicon Valley, she has an extensive network and has served as a bridge between the startups and VCs of Silicon Valley and the boardrooms and C-Suites of international corporations throughout her career. Her company, Mach49, unlocks venture-driven growth through building and investing, partnering with the Global 1000 to build their growth engines — creating portfolios of organic ventures, external investments, strategic partnerships, and targeted M&A that disrupt markets and create new ones.</p><p>Drawing from her bestselling book, <em>The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed</em>, Linda shares her proven strategies for how organizations can beat startups at their own game and generate rapid, meaningful growth. Laying out a learnable, repeatable, scalable program, she provides comprehensive advice for building a team and finding customer pain points; creating new products or services; developing a rigorous business and execution plan; and launching, accelerating, and scaling each venture. Audiences walk away empowered to seize the extraordinary opportunities that exist in this unprecedented era of change.</p><p><em>The Unicorn Within</em> was an instant bestseller and was included in the “Top Ten Business Books of 2022” by <em>Forbes.</em> It is already being used as a textbook for several entrepreneurship and executive education programs across the world.</p>