Beth Comstock
Former GE Vice Chair
Beth is a sought-after speaker around the world, focusing on issues relating to digital transformation, culture change, innovation, and trendspotting. She is recognized as someone who has her eye on what’s next. Beth is a practitioner, having led teams and businesses in one of the world’s biggest companies and across industries ranging from media to health, energy, manufacturing, transportation, finance and software. She has helped incubate new companies, partnered with start-ups and advises business leaders.
She believes that change starts with the individual and that organizational change programs need to focus on personal agency more than formulaic process improvement. Her motto is “Make room for discovery” believing that everyone in the organization has to make it their job to be open to emerging ideas and be ready for change.
Beth is a top-ten LinkedIn influencer and contributes frequently to social media and other thought-leadership platforms. She has been written about in the media and she has been on the Fortune and Forbes lists of the World’s Most Powerful women.