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Joan Riera is an Innovator, Advisor, Professor, Writer and Speaker, known for his unparalleled connection with people, his fierce passion, and his obsession to find entrepreneurial ways to drive positive change in the world. Joan has over 20 years of business success in the corporate world and then as an eight-time entrepreneur. Joan has been honored to help over 50.000 executives from more than 60 countries transform and energize their lives and their organizations. To accomplish this mission, he founded Active Development in 2010, a consulting firm that offers specialized advisory in growth, transformation, innovation, corporate entrepreneurship and sales. He is currently leading the company and participating in different projects in the field. Joan has always been defined by his enthusiastic love of teaching and commitment to building and empowering leaders. For 20´years, he has been teaching Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Intrapreneurship, Lean Startup, Leadership, Internationalization, Strategy and General Management at ESADE Business School. He also assumed different executive positions in the school and, as intrapreneur, he was founder and CEO of ESADE CREAPOLIS, the world's first Open Innovation Park to transfer innovation between startups and corporations, today a key area of the ESADE Campus in Sant Cugat. He is a prolific thought leader and author, regularly expressing his views on business issues in public speeches, television appearances, and top publications. Joan is internationally recognized as a leading expert for Corporate Entrepreneurship. His latest book, Impulso, offers an accessible methodology to deploy intrapreneurship in the organizations. As supporter of socially conscious ventures, Joan is proud to have designed and executed different programs for governments, institutions, foundations and NGOs, such as entrepreneurship camps for young gifted entrepreneurs or an accelerator for disabled entrepreneurs. Other interests: Digitalization, Change, Disruption, Sales, Moonshot Thinking