ABOUT SARI STENFORS
Recently recognized by Forbes as one of the top fifty female futurists globally, sari stenfors is a serial entrepreneur, scientist and consultant. She is passionate about helping our society to take a leap to the future with disruptive technologies like blockchain, virtual and augmented reality.
She holds a PhD in Business Technology with emphasis on AI, algorithms, data governance, distributed ledgers and digital organizational behavior. She is also a social anthropologist, and been doing anthropological studies on cyborgs. She believes one day all of us will be cyborgs, able to connect with machines and even other human brains to allow work become more decentralized. Your personal data will be the most valuable asset in the future, and a potential source of income if you choose to sell your data.
As a digital world citizen, Sari divides her time between two different places she calls home - San Francisco and Helsinki. In her pursuit for improving our society, she is also involved in social entrepreneurship in Afghanistan and Somalia, impact investment, and game changing economic and political concepts.
Anthropology is something that you take times from some other times and you look at the items and you try to understand how did these items affect society.
— Sari Stenfors
Innovation and Exponential Tech
Business Innovation
Sari has founded over 20 new businesses. She is a serial impact entrepreneur with three exits and an IPO. She is also an advisor and a board member for several start-up companies focused on innovative business ideas. She has over 15 years of executive experience in health care, retail, advertising, entertainment and ICT sectors. Her PhD in Business from Aalto University is in the field of Strategic Management and Business Technology. Her 15 years of consulting experience concentrate on strategy level improvements in client organizations. She is especially keen on disruptive business concepts and teaches Innovative Entrepreneurship in fragile countries, such as Afghanistan.
Use of Tools, Strategy Tools, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, VR/AR
Sari’s academic work on organizational use of technologies has been published in various academic journals, for example the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Organization, and Journal of Productivity Analysis. Sari is passionate about strategy tools and has been working in the field of machine learning, neural networks, operations research, mathematical modeling and statistics since the 80s. Her newer hobbies are around blockchain technology and AR/VR/MR.
Learning Methodologies
Sari has been actively teaching and working on e-learning and new teaching methodologies for over 20 years. She has taught MBA, MSc and PhD-level courses in strategic management, risk management, quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, artificial intelligence and new learning methodologies. Read about Sari’s approach to teaching from “The Handbook of Experiential Learning and Management Education”
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