Author, Technology Provocateur, Entrepreneur and Investor. With leadership experience spanning more than two decades, Linda Bernardi possesses a unique vision and a fierce commitment to promoting innovative, disruptive ideas and technologies. Her new book PROVOKE explains the necessity of disruption in order to achieve critical innovation and excellence. She explains the players and their roles in the Ecosystem of Disruption. In her role as “innovation provocateur,” Linda helps organizations break free of their comfort zone, defy conventional wisdom, and shatter outdated paradigms in their quest for market-changing products, services and methods. She invests in technology start-ups in the US, Europe, and an active member of IAN, India Angel Network. An active entrepreneur, technologist, educator, Linda is the Founder & CEO of StraTerra Partners, a technology strategy consulting firm that works closely with large enterprises and technology developers to promote innovative, disruptive products, business models and strategies. As the creator of the Bernardi Leadership Institute, she engages with corporations around the globe as a consultant, speaker and coach, training personnel in her passionate, organic leadership theories.She chairs technology company boards, and member of several not for profit boards.