Say it seven times” before a message sticks with someone. This is the key learning and essence of driving an innovation culture within a big corporate.

In this session, Kathy will share her experience at Swiss Re from bottom-up innovation competition, to launching a firm-wide innovation education programme. The three key takeaways will be:

1. Sometimes a little bit of handholding will go a long way
2. It's all about being creative and targeted with your communications
3. Failure culture and portfolio mindset, despite it being difficult to implement, are the most valued

In her role as Group Innovation Manager, Kathy helps to drive and embed Swiss Re’s innovation culture and discipline across different business units.
Kathy started her career at Swiss Re as an Insurtech Solutions Manager based in Hong Kong which she was responsible for the ideation, design and delivery of tech and digital Life & Health insurance solutions in APAC. With the market experience that she gained, she moved to her current role in London two years ago and has since launched multiple initiatives to enable a more commercial and executional innovation culture, while coaching a number of bottom-up innovation ideas coming from the business units.

Prior to Swiss Re, she was a management consultant at KPMG where she acquired industry experience in the healthcare, high growth technology and insurance sectors in the UK, Hong Kong and Japan.