Nadia Rivera is an adventurer, creator, builder, creative problem-solver, and out-of-box thinker. She is also a business executive and a leadership advisor.Active in the local startup ecosystem, she is passionate about innovative, disruptive and social impact entrepreneurship. Her main interest is in the business strategy of early stage, highly scalable and tech-enabled ventures from ideation to launch.As a startup founder, she was chosen to participate in Google´s Launchpad and Amazon´s Build pre-accelerators. Nadia was also selected as finalist and runner-up in two national competitions for up to $500,000 in pre-seed investment. She believes in the power of storytelling in business and in the art of failing well: "fail fast, fail often." As she often says, "If you are not failing, you are definitely not innovating enough."At the beginning of her career, Nadia worked as a data linguist, foreign language curriculum designer and educator with top companies, including Google, and government agencies including U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Defense. She also worked as a journalist and an editor of leading publications including The Hartford Courant and The Associated Press.Visit her website at www.nadiariveran.com .