Vanessa Egli
About Vanessa Egli
Vanessa Egli serves as the Executive Director at IDEO in Palo Alto, California, where she has worked since 2019. With a diverse background in change management across various companies, she combines business acumen with human-centered insights to drive innovation.
Work at IDEO
Vanessa Egli has served as the Executive Director at IDEO since 2019. In this role, she focuses on helping organizations develop the capabilities necessary to sustain innovation. She combines her business acumen with human-centered market insights to design and launch innovative products, services, ventures, and brands. Egli has been instrumental in collaborating with leaders and change agents to identify new market opportunities, enhancing IDEO's impact in the design and innovation sector.
Previous Experience in Change Management
Before joining IDEO, Vanessa Egli held several positions in change management. She worked at Siemens as a Senior Change Manager from 2010 to 2012 in Munich, Germany. Following this, she spent four years at Linde as a Change Management Expert in Global Performance Transformation and later as Head of Change Management for Linde Global Services until 2019. Additionally, she led the Global Linde Healthcare Academy for a brief period. Her diverse experiences in change management have contributed to her expertise in driving organizational transformation.
Educational Background
Vanessa Egli holds a Master's degree in Management from AGSM @ UNSW Business School, which she completed from 1996 to 1998. She also earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a focus on Marketing and Tourism from UNSW, studying from 1991 to 1996. Her educational background provides a strong foundation for her roles in business and change management.
Career Path and Early Roles
Vanessa Egli's career began in the late 1990s, where she worked as a Change Management Consultant at Accenture in Dublin, Ireland, from 1996 to 1998. She then transitioned to various roles in change management and supplier enablement across multiple companies, including George Weston Bakeries, Cisco, and Coles Myer. Her early experiences laid the groundwork for her later leadership roles in change management at Linde and her current position at IDEO.