Andrea Curry

VP of Product Management, Axonify

Workplace learning softwareOn TechWaterloo stages since 2017

Andrea Curry is vice president of product management at Axonify, a Waterloo workplace-training company. She started her career in management consulting before moving into product roles. At TechWaterloo in 2017 she argued that innovation requires embracing unconventional thinkers, and that hiring for diversity of thought produces higher-quality products.

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Andrea Curry of Axonify presents Why Creativity Needs Crazy People

TechWaterloo · March 2017

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tonight I'm going to talk about how innovation requires crazy people

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really learned that managing diversity makes a higher quality product at the end of the day

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What did Andrea Curry talk about at TechWaterloo?

In her 2017 talk 'Why Creativity Needs Crazy People,' she made the case that embracing unconventional, creative people and managing for diversity of thought leads to higher-quality products.

What does Andrea Curry do now?

She is vice president of product management at Axonify, the Waterloo workplace-training company.

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