David Owens, Professor for the Practice of Management and Innovation Evans Family Executive Director, The Wond’ry Innovation Center
Dr. David A. Owens serves as the Evans Family Executive Director of The Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s Innovation Center, for which he led the visioning and design. He is Professor of the Practice of Innovation at the Graduate School of Management, with joint appointments in Engineering, Education, and Medicine. Owens received his PhD in a joint program between the School of Engineering and School of Business at Stanford University where he had also earned his BS in electrical engineering and an MS in mechanical engineering / product design.
A registered Professional Engineer, he also has significant industry experience; he was CEO of Griffin Technology, at the time the largest iPhone/iPod accessory maker, and he’s consulted on innovation strategy and design process for NASA, Nissan, Mars, Wrigley, Cisco, LEGO, Bridgestone, and others. As a design engineer at IDEO Product Development, he worked with firms like Apple, Dell, Daimler, and Steelcase. His research offers a cross-disciplinary study of innovation (and adoption barriers) in business, healthcare and education. He has published in numerous journals and given more than 250 talks internationally. His book, Creative People Must Be Stopped! Six Ways We Stop Innovation Without Even Trying, is the basis of his MOOC that has enrolled over 150,000 students.
This lecture takes place on Friday, February 18, 2022, at 2:00 pm via Zoom.