Draft:Tamara Carleton

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Tamara L. Carleton is an American innovation researcher, professor, and executive whose expertise is centered on vision-led, radical innovation[1][2], applied strategic foresight[3], moonshots[4][5], and non-zero-sum wargaming. She founded the Innovation Leadership Group out of her doctoral research into DARPA’s culture of innovation at Stanford University in 2007 when Finland’s Tekes (now Business Finland) funded the creation of the Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation[3]. She is a leading advocate for delivering research insights as free and open, actionable guides.

As a global professor of practice, Carleton holds numerous teaching and research roles at business schools and universities globally. She is the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Leadership for Innovative and Better Futures[6] and International Online Professor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Tecnológico de Monterrey (2020-), Universitetslektor at Blekinge Institute of Technology (2023-), Visiting Professor in Design Innovation at Osaka Institute of Technology (2017-), Silicon Valley faculty in at University of Zurich's EMBA (2020-), Lecturer in Management at University of St. Gallen (2020-), co-founder the Stanford Foresight (2007-)[7], and academic director of Stanford University’s Silicon Valley Innovation Academy (2019-)[8].

Recognition[edit]

Tamara Carleton is recognized in the American “Women We admire” magazine, in their Top 50 Women Leaders in Education of 2023.[9]

Carleton was named the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Leadership for Innovative and Better Futures at Tecnológico de Monterrey in 2023. Prior to the chair she collaborated with Riel Miller, creator of UNESCO’s Futures Literacy Lab program, to create the UNESCO.[6]

Open Guides and Books[edit]

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References[edit]

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  1. ^ a b The value of vision in radical technological innovation, Stanford University Library Collections, 2010, retrieved 2024-01-17
  2. ^ Bonvillian, William Boone; Van Atta, Richard; Windham, Patrick, eds. (2020), Chapter 5 of The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(pp. 119–144), Open Book Publishers, doi:10.11647/obp.0184, ISBN 978-1-78374-791-7
  3. ^ a b The Playbook for Strategic Foresight & Innovation at Stanford University, Tekes and The Innovation Leadership Group, 2013, retrieved 2024-01-14
  4. ^ Building Moonshots: 50+ Ways to Turn Radical Ideas into Reality, Wiley, 2023, retrieved 2024-01-14
  5. ^ Inventing the Almost Impossible: Creating, Teaching, Funding, and Leading Radical Innovation, Future of Business and Finance, Springer, 2023, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36224-8, ISBN 978-3-031-36223-1, S2CID 264520190, retrieved 2024-01-14
  6. ^ a b UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks / Chaires UNESCO et Réseaux UNITWIN (PDF), UNESCO, 2023, retrieved 2024-01-14
  7. ^ Foresight @ Stanford University, 1997, retrieved 2024-01-14
  8. ^ Tamara Carleton @ Silicon Valley Innovation Academy page, 2023, retrieved 2024-01-14
  9. ^ Tamara Carleton @ The Top 50 Women Leaders in Education of 2023, Women We Admire, 2023, retrieved 2024-01-14

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