Meet Lorraine
Lorraine Marchand is a passionate business leader, advisor and innovator in life sciences and healthcare. Her teaching, consulting and business endeavors focus on the design and development of new products and services and the business and marketing models that enable their successful adoption.
Advisor
Lorraine H. Marchand is an acclaimed consultant and educator on innovation with extensive experience in new product development. She has cofounded several start-ups; held leadership positions at several Fortune 500 companies; and served as advisor to Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett Packard.
She serves on the boards of several privately held companies and the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Advisory Board at Columbia Business School, and she teaches at the Wharton School of Business and Yeshiva University.
Speaker
Lorraine has helped countless business executives and scientists overcome their fear of innovating through her seminal talk, “How to Innovate without Fear of Failure,” first produced by Johnson & Johnson TedX in 2014 and now a platform for talks, workshops, curricula and publications over the past 6 years.
Engaging, commanding and always provocative, Lorraine uses stories and case examples, underpinned by data, to challenge industry icons and myths, offering creative approaches to solving intractable problems in life sciences and healthcare.
Author
Lorraine H. Marchand is the author, with John Hanc, of The Innovation Mindset: Eight Essential Steps to Transform Any Industry (Columbia, 2022) and the recently released No Fear, No Failure: Five Principles for Sustaining Growth Through Innovation (Columbia Business School Publishing).
John Hanc is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, as well as a long-time contributing writer to Newsday, the New York Times, and Smithsonian.
