So, Who is Deb?
Deb challenges the status quo, believes innovation & strategy are about Why Not/Why, AND, BOTH, not Either/Or, has lots of fun and hopefully makes a difference!
Deb Mills-Scofield has her own consultancy helping organizations create and implement highly actionable,;)
adaptable, measurable, and profitable innovation-based strategic plans. Deb also is a Partner at Glengary LLC, an early-stage Venture Capital firm in Cleveland, Ohio. Deb has 20+ years of experience in strategic planning, execution and innovation with manufacturing, service and high-technology companies from large global companies to early-stage. She has also been involved in several carve-outs and start-ups, including her own. Deb is a co-creator of the book Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder and a contributor to Steve Denning’s book, The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. She also blogs on various sites including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Innovation Excellence, etc. and is recognized as one of the top 40 bloggers on innovation.
Deb is a graduate of Brown University, completing her degree in three years. She helped create the Cognitive Science concentration at Brown, one of the first undergraduate programs of its kind in the country at that time. After graduation, Deb went to AT&T Bell Labs to design an integrated multimedia messaging service for which she holds a patent that was awarded one of top revenue generating patents of AT&T/Lucent. She was instrumental in getting AT&T to recognize and embrace the Internet's impact, working with AT&T's executive team to create AT&T's entré into that new market. Deb spearheaded AT&T’s Internet and E-commerce strategies, business plans and execution, including an AT&T “Carve-Out Startup” known as AT&T WorldNet® Services and is formerly Director of Internet Public Policy at AT&T.
Deb is active at Lake Ridge Academy, where her children attend. She also is involved in several activities mentoring entrepreneurs in Northeast Ohio and through her alma mater via the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program, Brown’s Women's Launch Pad Program and mentoring startups by Brown Students. Deb teaches a course on Business Model Innovation at Oberlin College. She also has taught in the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence Fellows Program, at CWRU’s Weatherhead School of Management and at Vanderbilt University. She is active at Baldwin-Wallace College’s Center for Innovation and Growth where she started a monthly “Innovation Salon Series” and a bi-annual Innovation Summit in addition to involving Student Fellows in helping conduct Glengary’s due diligence. Deb has led workshops and spoken at several Innovation and Open Innovation conferences. As part of her consulting practice, Deb asks her clients to match and donate 10% of her fee to improve lives in the surrounding community and mentor and/or assist an entrepreneur where and when appropriate. While waiting in line, on-line or on hold, Deb loves micro-volunteering at Sparked.com.
She resides in Oberlin, Ohio with her husband, a Physics professor at Oberlin College doing research in energy and sustainability, and their two children. When not in Oberlin, you may find her on the coast of Maine keeping track of the tides.
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