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Katharine D'Amico

Katharine is a Canadian, PhD in Social Linguistics and Behavioural Neuroscience.

She is President and CEO at The Swala Institute for Applied Neuroscience in Business and Leadership. She served as the Academic Director of Executive MBA programs at ESADE. She is a Senior Lecturer in Communication Strategy, Leadership & Applied Neuroscience. She taught in the ESADE Business & Law School, as well as in Executive MBA, full time MBA, Advanced management programs and in global governance and geopolitics program. She currently collaborate at IESE Business School, as well as Continuing Education Program at Harvard Business School Executive Education, and the Kellogg School of Management.

She has an extensive experience as program lead in Corporate Programs in Microsoft Switzerland, Meta, & Amazon in Dubai, Pepsico, HP, General Electric, Lenovo, Bayer, Agilent, Luxoft, Vanderlande, Roche, SEAT, Novartis, REPSOL, FIA University Leadership Development Program, the European Intellectual Property Office, Summer intensive program for Georgetown University & Hong Kong University, GB Foods, LEAR, and AstraZeneca among others. She is a mentor for TED and TEDx as well as Speaker at TEDx HEC Paris in June 2023.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

She is a well-known and highly requested program lead on Communication Strategy in Repsol, La Caixa, EIT Health, EIT Innoenergy, Agilent, Luxoft, GMAT Europe, SME Instrument Horizon. She is also a highly requested speaker in International Congresses such as The European Women in Technology, Lean In Network Barcelona, Ejecon, W4STEAM, key note speaker at the STEM Women´s congress 2021, and 2024, and The European Society of Women Engineers. She served as member of the Board of Directors at the ESADE Alumni Women Empowerment Club and is member of the board of advisors at IS Global. She is a contributor to Forbes US, Harvard Deusto Magazine, El Pais and Expansión.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INVESTOR EXPERIENCE

She has a wide experience as a Mentor in public speaking and deck pitch management. She has mentored more than 900 startups in the last 5 years. She is Mentor in-house for world class accelerators in Spain and the EU such as Wayra Telefónica, Conector, Nuclio, F10, La Caixa XXI, Wayra SCALE Up Women, 5G The Thinx, the World Mobile Capital. Meridea Capital, Ship2B Ventures, & The IESE Women Bootcamp for Innovation in Health (Speaker and Mentor), mentorESADE Business Angels Network, She is mentor and evaluator for EIT Health EU, SILO innovation for Science, La Fundación Pascual Maragall, Biocat and the Col.legi de Metges de Barcelona, D Health, Sant Joan de Deu Innovation Pedatric Day, CRAASH Barcelona and BIOCAT. She is also teaching at IESE and EIT Health Summer intensive program on Communication & The Neuroscience behind habit forming Medical Devices, as well as being academic collaborator on the MBA program at IESE.

She is a Business Angel in tech start- ups at pre-seed and seed stages, helping start-ups to raise in public and private funds, bringing Neuroscience and Leadership to business.

Her post-doctoral research includes the relationship between the microbiome and the brain, the brain´s decision making process as well as the gender dynamics of neuroscience and leadership.

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