Meg Bear

Business leader, Change Agent, Engineer, Idea generator, Inventor, Life mentor, Parent, Technologist

Meg Bear lives and works at the intersection of people, business and technology. With over 10,000 hours and more than 30 years experience in Enterprise Applications, she is seasoned yet optimistic. Skilled across a broad spectrum of functional domains including: Big Data, Security, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing, Financials and Human Resources in addition to technical tools, implementations and methodologies. Meg has a proven track record developing and scaling next-generation enterprise cloud businesses from concept to profit encompassing business strategy, product development, mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and market acceleration. She is passionate about applying technology to solve business problems, building and growing teams to be their best and defining market winning product strategies that are customer centric and innovative. She is a disruptive technologist, change agent, career coach, startup advisor, intrapreneur, keynote speaker, blogger, patent holder, TEDx San Jose, CA host, TEDster, wife and mother of two powerful girls. Meg uses her talents to help others achieve their best.

Technology Disruption. Women's issues. Social justice. STEM. Helping people realize their potential. Using technology to improve individual and business effectiveness. Learning. Thinking bigger

To compete in a growing global market companies need to not only build their leadership pipelines, they need to find new was to expand their "top talent". I believe that the trick to making more top talent is not just to acquire more smart people, but to do a better job aligning roles to strengths. "Job Fit" is the critical component of top talent and companies that get this right will outpace the competition and increase employee engagement. More here: http://talentedapps.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/making-more-top-talent-with-better-job-fit/

Customer Experience, Cyber Security, Human Capital Management, Leadership, M&A, Product development, SaaS, Startups, Strategic Planning, Talent Management, Transformation

I crowdsourced the best of myself to get accepted to TED. http://talentedapps.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/need-your-help-achieving-my-dream/ I have been blessed to Co-Host at TEDxSanJoseCA .

Finding absurd movie or tv quotes to illustrate a point.