Jennifer Corriero Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency

Jennifer Corriero is a young innovator and leader, bringing tremendous insight into understanding, reaching out to and motivating youth. In all of her varied experiences, her focus has been on two things: helping youth around the world to realize the potential of technology, and working with companies to show them what they need to do to connect meaningfully with young people. This passion has made for some amazing successes, including the development of one of the world's most successful youth-oriented not-for-profit organizations, TakingITGlobal, which has over 300,000 users in more than 200 countries and territories, and is providing a platform, a resource and a network for today's global youth.

At age 19, Correiro was a senior consultant to Microsoft, and has since done consulting work with Hewlett-Packard, Nike, and McDonald's. She has been involved in conferences around the world as presenter, facilitator and panelist in India, Ghana, Egypt, Sweden, South Africa, Switzerland, Malaysia and Australia. Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader of Tomorrow in 2002 and as a Young Global Leader in 2004, she recently completed her Master's at York University with an area of concentration on Youth Engagement and Capacity Building Across Cultures.

Drawing on her own experiences as a young entrepreneur and consultant, well as some of the most up-to-date research available, Jennifer's customized and targeted presentations help audiences understand the steps they must take to connect with the youth demographic. In recent presentations she has:

Helped an association of financial services executives understand what young people think about banks and how to build a bridge to them;
Explored the intricacies of the youth demographic with a group of senior broadcasting executives;
Helped a state technology association to understand the role of technology in education

Jennifer Corriero's presentations are brimming with energy, flush with great ideas and able to get even the toughest audiences thinking creatively about the future of their organization.

Taking Our Place in the World: Young People, Technology, and the World We Want

Jennifer Corriero is a living example of the youth-quake that shook business to its core in the last five years. While still a high-school student, she mastered the skills of the Internet revolution and became one of the leading proponents of youth involvement in the online world. Now a college student, she draws on her own unique experience to help young people understand the opportunities that exist for them to contribute to, and create, a more understanding, compassionate, and inter-connected world. Especially keen to make sure young women are at the forefront of developments in new technology, she draws on students own questions and ideas to shape an interactive, lively, and rewarding discussion on the things they can do to shape the future.

This highly interactive talk challenges educators to understand the ways in which their students’ own experience and knowledge can be put to use to make the classroom experience a better one for students and teachers alike. There is no denying the incredible knowledge and expertise that many young people have developed in the areas of information technology and the Internet. Unfortunately this expertise has oftentimes been separate from, rather than integral to, the classroom. As a successful young entrepreneur and consultant, Jennifer Corriero knows first-hand that the classroom setting sometimes fails the best and the brightest in this regard. But this talk isn’t about failure. It’s about success, and the things that educators can do to tap into their students’ expertise and experience, making them vibrant contributors to their own, and their classmates’ education. Building on the audience’s own questions and comments, Jennifer helps educators draw on their own experience to generate new ideas about student involvement and classroom interaction.

It’s an undeniable fact of the new century that individual career success and independence will in many ways be dependent on understanding and embracing the ongoing technological revolution we’re living through. Yet unfortunately, young women have not been as inclined towards the sciences and technology disciplines as their male peers.

Jennifer Corriero understands the challenges that young women face in these fields. Having fully immersed herself in the opportunities of new technology, and helped to create several successful on-line ventures, she can speaks with passionate knowledge and infectious enthusiasm about the many ways that new technologies are helping women to take their rightful place in the new world of work. This topic is perfect for any business, association, or educational group that wants to understand how technological literacy can help to provide young women with more confidence, greater independence, and a brighter future.