“Fall in love with the problem you’re solving—not the solution,” says serial entrepreneur and innovation speaker Sarah Prevette. The founder of Sprouter, BetaKit, and Future Design School, Prevette teaches design thinking to some of the biggest business leaders and brands in the world, like LEGO, Virgin, and Starbucks. Fostering entrepreneurship in a classroom setting, Prevette brings that energetic wisdom to her talks, showing audiences how to leverage design thinking for individual creative inquiry.
As the Founder and CEO of Future Design School (FDS), Sarah Prevette and her team of educators have enabled over 350,000 students to engage in extensive personalized inquiry and experiential learning where they solve real world problems. After running product development and marketing for a large software company (which was acquired by Thomson Reuters), Prevette founded Sprouter, the world’s first online community providing real-time advice to start-ups. That platform was acquired in 2011 and she went on to build BetaKit—a popular technology news site that was acquired in 2013. Prevette’s talks cultivate a culture of curiosity coupled with deep learning, helping audiences develop optimism in their ability to have a meaningful impact on the world.
As a serial entrepreneur in the technology space, and a sought-after thought leader in the start-up ecosystem, Prevette understands firsthand the urgency in developing future-ready skills for all students. Prevette was named one of the top entrepreneurs in North America by Inc. Magazine and one of the “Top 20 Power Elite” by Canadian Business. She is frequently in the media and has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Wired, among many others.