Teaching Startup Lab: How to Build a Scalable Startup class to students in the new BS in Business, Technology and Entrepreneurship (BTE) degree program. This course provides real world, hands-on learning on what its like to start a new venture. Startup Lab is a practical class — essentially a lab. The goal is to create a simulated entrepreneurial experience for students with all the pressures and demands of a real world early stage startup within the constraints of the classroom setting.Emily also co-designed and co-taught the first iteration of Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship: The Entrepreneurial Mindset to undergraduate students in the new BS in Business, Technology and Entrepreneurship (BTE) degree program.

Teaching Lean Launchpad class to graduate computer science students at NYU in the MS-CEI program earning a Master's degree in Computing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The course is designed for computer science students and technology professionals interested in pursuing entrepreneurship or assuming leadership roles in innovative technology based organizations. The MS-CEI students will go through various stages of technological entrepreneurship including problem conceptualization, idea incubation, product development, pilot deployment and effectiveness evaluation towards nurturing them to pursue their concepts into realities.

Reboot Democracy was created to bring innovators in technology and politics together. The organization is creating an ecosystem of support for early-stage innovators who are building technology to strengthen democracy. Reboot Democracy mobilized 750+ participants via nationwide events and is currently building the first-ever democracy-focused startup accelerator to support growth in the democracy tech sector. If you’d like to get involved or donate, please visit www.rebootdem.com

Lead technology investments for the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, a seed stage fund with the Entrepreneurial Institute at NYU.

Emily leads numerous programs and serves as an in-house mentor and coaches NYU entrepreneurs through various stages of launching a startup.The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute at the Leslie eLab leads University-wide initiatives to launch successful startups and commercialize technology created by NYU’s 60,000 students, faculty and researchers. The Institutes' team of startup experts offers educational programming and events, and helps identify funding opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs in the NYU community.

From spec writing to post-release analysis, led feature development with the goal of increasing basket size, average order value, and overall growth and retention.

During Emily's time as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Citrix Startup Accelerator, she served as a Curriculum Designer for the Citrix Innovators Program and Design Thinking/Lean Startup Coach.• Designed curriculum for a 12-week Design Thinking and Lean focused accelerator program in collaboration with the Citrix Customer Experience and Startup Accelerator teams• Taught intensive 3-day Lean/Design Thinking boot-camps in Sydney, Redmond, Raleigh, and Santa Clara• Coached 18 enterprise-focused startups and several internal teams through early stages of customer discovery – introducing them to a variety of ethnographic research techniques (interviewing, surveying, etc.)

Emily managed strategy, research, and design teams on projects for a global retail brand, a fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, and a startup medical device company. Through personal immersions, ethnographic research, concept ideation, brand exploration, and co-creation, her teams developed user driven design solutions for each client.IA Collaborative is an award winning design and innovation consultancy specializing in research, strategy, innovation, brand creation, experience design, and industrial design.

• Transformed newly defined territory from 92% to 105% quota attainment and improved rank from 112 (bottom 16%) to 9 (top 13%) in 9 months• Developed a novel targeting strategy and taught Manhattan and Brooklyn districts to implement my analytic technique to discover new business opportunities and increase sales• Collaborated with internal marketing and brand team associates to provide insight into day-to-day sales environment• Mentored 3 overlapping primary care sales representatives and helped them improve overall product knowledge • Created budget tracking spreadsheet to help NYC district ensure effective budget utilization• Led team as Product Knowledge Champ, Peer to Peer Champ, and Business Acumen Champ AWARDS:• Northeast Neuro Partnership Award Winner, 2011 – Chosen based on standout teamwork• Turnaround Award, 2010 – Chosen based on standout sales performance• District Achievement Award (2010)

• Promoted to Specialty position with only 20 months of field sales experience due to exceptional performance (top 4% portfolio sales)• On-boarded and mentored six new primary care sales representatives• Developed a novel targeting strategy and taught Manhattan and Brooklyn districts to implement my analytic technique to discover new business opportunities and increase sales• Developed a method to clean up customer databases and taught reps within the district and area how to utilize the technique to uncover overlooked business opportunities and improve accountability for their business• Uncovered hidden business opportunities within 4 Manhattan hospitals and collaborated with the Account Based Sales Representative in executing speedy educational interventions to increase salesAWARDS:• Peer Award Winner (2010) - Voted by 12 teammates as NYC District MVP• District Achievement Award (2009)

• Transformed territory rank from 304/520 to 17/520 (top 3% of reps) and 103% to quota at promotion• Formed and maintained working relationships with over 500 health care professionals in both private practice and hospital settings• Proposed, planned, recruited, and executed over 40 FDA-regulated speaker programs• Created Managed Care Monday weekly reminders as Managed Care Champ for the district leading the team to a top two finish in managed care SOM growth competition• Facilitated teamwork within the territory by serving as the point person for Primary Care and Account Based Sales overlap meetings• Developed deep knowledge of Depression, Anxiety, and Chronic Neuropathic Pain disease states and marketsAWARDS:• Teamwork Award Winner (2008)• District Achievement Award (2008)

• Performed surgery, microinfusions, and detailed behavioral analysis • Conducted experiments for senior graduate students and organized data• Became skilled at using cryostats for placement checks and in situ hybridization• Edited brain scans and atlas photos for publication using Adobe Photoshop • Taught a new student various lab techniques