JOANNE GRIFFIN

Joanne Griffin is a strategist, innovator and transformation professional with a lengthy career in finance and technology. Her career has spanned more than twenty years in various industries, including senior leadership positions at LinkedIn, Nielsen and EY.


She is currently the CEO of AdaptIQ where she leads innovation initiatives focused on transformation and adaptability for global enterprises. A solutions-builder at heart with a deep appreciation of the power of community to solve complex challenges, she is co-founder and COO of IrelandTogether.ie, a non-profit organisation creating opportunity for entrepreneurs by creating serendipitous collisions.


An enduring love affair with technology dates back to the arrival of the Commodore VIC-20 in the early 1980s. She has judged the European Automation Awards category for SSON since 2017, and is ranked as one of the Top 50 Thought Leaders in RPA. As a tech zealot with an innovative mindset, she believes that technologists have a responsibility to be ethical, collaborative and transparent in the design of products and business models.


She advises a small number of high-potential start-ups who are aligned with those values.

Joanne also contributes to various curriculums, research bodies and publications on a broad range of topics.

Joanne's bookshelf on Goodreads: read

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Alchemist
The Secret
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again
Outliers: The Story of Success
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Designing Hope
Humology: How to put humans back at the heart of technology
Jobs to be Done: Theory to Practice
When Coffee & Kale Compete: Become Great at Making Products People Will Buy
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Our Brain to Get the Best Out of Ourselves and Others
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness


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