Sabine VanderLinden

Activate Innovation Ecosystems | Tech Ambassador | Founder of Alchemy Crew Ventures + Scouting for Growth | Chair, Board Member, Advisor | Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow-Bayes Business School

I don't just talk about innovation, AI, workforce or digital transformation— I build the bridges that make things real.

As Founder & Venture-Client Partner of Alchemy Crew Ventures, I run global R&D + Adoption Labs that connect Fortune 500 insurers and corporates with the most brilliant tech ventures on the planet. Think of us as the “fast lane” between startup brilliance and enterprise adoption. My themes include FinTech/ InsurTech and deploying AI at scale responsibly. 

What this looks like in numbers:
📍 Accelerated 160+ ventures and sourced 55,000+ startups worldwide
📍 Invested in 35+ early stage startups
📍 Delivered exits like FitSense → Zurich (2018), MyFutureNow → L&G (2019), and Tia Tech → Sapiens (2020)
📍 Created Insurer-led Acceleration and Scaleup programs that turned pilot purgatory into scalable commercial success

But the real story? I help founders land their first million-dollar client, build authentic personal brands, and help corporates cut through the noise to adopt tech that drives real growth.

My world revolves around:
📍 Venture Clienting 2.0 & Corporate Innovation Frameworks
📍 AI (ethics, adoption, emerging risks)
📍 Climate Resilience, Risk Futures & Sustainability Transformation
📍 The Future of Work (where humans + tech thrive together)

Beyond Alchemy Crew:
📍 Co-editor of the bestselling INSURTECH Book
📍 Wrote forewords for the Future of Insurance and Momentum
📍 Lecturer on Corporate Venturing at Bayes Business School
📍 Board + advisory roles across VCs, Scaleups (The CareVoice), foundations (Women to Watch), standards (ACORD Solutions) & global insurers
📍 Top 10 Business Podcast "Scouting for Growth" 
📍 Recognized with 10+ awards, including Most Influential CEO – Insurance Corporate Ventures (2024/2025)

My channels beyond LinkedIn:
x.com: @SabineVdL
instagram: @sabinevdlofficial
Medium: @sabine_vdl
Podcast: Scouting for Growth and Beyond Tech Frontiers
Newsletter: alchemycrew.ventures

What drives me?
Creating value where others see friction.
Turning hype into measurable outcomes.
And making sure technology becomes a force for good, not just another buzzword.

Award List (10+): Insurance Times-Tech & Innovation Awards Winner (2018), Grant Thornton-Face of a Vibrant Economy (2018), Business Insurance-Women to Watch Honoree (2019), Corporate Vision-Venture Validation Firm of the Year (2021), Finalist Women in Insurance Perseverance Award (2021), Awarded Perseverant Company to Watch in (2021), ACORD Awards (2020/2023), Most Influential CEO-Insurance Corporate Ventures (2024/2025).

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer & Venture Partner

Delivering venture labs that accelerate, industrialize and democratize the way tech ventures engage with corporations. These labs apply acceleration, co-creation, and commercialization techniques to de-risk the way insurers and financial institutions collaborate, grow, and scale their venture-led growth initiatives.

Also, systematizing for a select group of growth ventures the way their engagement with corporations.

You can find out more 👉🏽 https://alchemycrew.com/

Friska Wirya

I don’t do “change management.”

I build future-fit organizations — ones that bounce forward no matter what the market throws at them.

I’ve led transformation for billion-dollar ASX-listed miners, steered a $42M tech overhaul across the world’s largest policing jurisdiction, and driven change that’s stuck — not just launched and limped to the end.

My work has been featured in The Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, SmartCompany, AFR, CEO Magazine, Women’s Agenda, UN Women, and La French Tech Indonesia.

You may have also seen my best-selling books at Kinokuniya, Harvard University, Periplus, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

I've also recently launched an AI-powered sparring partner, "Ask Friska" that helps leaders make change work, built on my scars (and wisdom) from leading change in 6 of the seven continents. It's like having change insights 24/7 with a few strokes of the keyboard!

I'm also a Partner at STABLE by Elevation Barn where we work shoulder to shoulder with leaders to build the systems, stories, and strategies that make transformation inevitable.

Who we partner with:

⚡ CXOs tired of “consultants” who deliver decks, not outcomes.
⚡ CHROs and transformation leads who need buy-in and commitment — fast.
⚡ Executives watching culture, performance, or adoption slide with every new initiative.

If that sounds like you — and you’ve got the urgency and courage to do things differently — then let's connect.

Because we don’t do half-measures or theory.
We work with leaders who are serious about making change stick.

Our partnership may look like:
✅ Turning your strategy into a narrative people actually believe in
✅ Workshops and offsites that get people moving, not just nodding
✅ Making culture, capability, and connection your real competitive edge
✅ Building inhouse transformation muscle — not dependence on consultants

My passion for building future fitness has seen me achieve:
🏆 2025 Top 10 Women Change Makers Indonesia
🏆 2024 Cartier Women's Initiative RedBoxMe Invitee
🏆 2024 Australia’s #1 Creator – Program Management
🏆 Top 50 APAC Consultants You Should Know (2023–2025)
🏆 Stevie Awards for Innovation, Influence & Impact

Ready to elevate to the next level?
DM me — or forward this to someone losing sleep over their stalled transformation effort.

All Things Change

2022 Australian Small Business Champion Finalist, 2022 Stevie International Business Awards Business Influencer of the Year, Top 50 Global Change Management Thought Leader, Top 50 APAC Consultants you should do business with in 2023.

🌀 Change Management Consulting 
🌀 Virtual & F2F Training 
🌀 Keynote speaking and facilitation
🌀 Communications coaching
🌀 Personal branding
🌀 Styling and presence
 
Change management ensures the smooth transition to a new way of behaving.

Why must we behave differently? Significant changes in the workplace come in the form of organisational initiatives or projects with the aim of driving cost, safety, or productivity outcomes.

These projects often require changes: to processes, policies, job roles, structures and tools. Changes like these are not simple to bed down. And even harder to sustain.

Ask yourself - what percentage of your project benefits hinge on people doing things differently? 

Doesn’t it make sense to protect your investment by ensuring people are aware of, want to, know how and are capable, of changing?

Imagine the lost hours and dollars due to disengaged stakeholders, covert resistance, miscommunication and lack of buy-in.

There is a better way - let me solve your adoption dilemmas and together, we will turn resistance into resilience.

I've been delighted to serve: Microsoft, Salesforce, Cox Automotive, Culture Amp, KBR, Melbourne Water, University of Melbourne, CX Professionals Association Singapore, SMEC, General Assembly, Bendigo Council, Women Leaders Summit, Women in Construction & Engineering, Women in Mining & Energy.

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