Bio

Celebrating the uncelebrated, propelling the misunderestimated.

I partner with organizations that need expert support identifying market opportunities, accessing new funding opportunities, developing critical relationships, creating strategy and managing teams of wonderful messy humans to achieve organizational objectives.

EXPERTISE:
• Organizational strategy
• Many years of successful track record of innovating and commercializing cutting edge materials
• Evaluating emerging technologies, proof of concept, and feasibility of new product development
• Applying for and securing funding through federal programs such as SBIR/STTR
• Managing federally funded research contracts
• Nanomaterials innovation and scale up (metal organic frameworks, polymer coated nano-composites, inorganic energy storage materials, catalysts, testing and characterization of these materials)
• Patent and literature review
• Technology commercialization plans and partnership strategies
• STEM entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem building
• Well versed in the unique challenges faced by underrepresented founders and how to overcome them

What problems I like solving: sustainability, gender disparity, science & technology commercialization, building collaborative and high performing teams, resource constraints, unlocking human potential

What I'm interested in: innovation, travel, making, gardening, good restaurants, deep conversations

What I'm reading: Good Power:, Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World, sensitive, The Startup Community Way, Leading Without Authority, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Divergent Mind

What I'm listening to: Ecosystems for Change, Disrupt Yourself Podcast, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, Financial Feminist

★ Let's connect or email me at amy@amybeaird.com