Anthony Mills

Associate

Anthony is a globally sought-after thought leader on emerging markets, corporate innovation, proactive growth strategies, business insights, workplace experience, entrepreneurship, product design, and Design Thinking.  His work has had a deeply profound and lasting impact on businesses from all over the world.

Anthony has a passion for two things:

1) Connecting businesses with their next big opportunities.

2) Helping businesses reinvent themselves into engaging, human workplaces that cannot help but unleash breakthrough innovations.

His abilities in strategic innovation build on 30 years of leadership in business, where he has held executive leadership positions in such disciplines as research, strategy, product management, design, engineering, marketing, and manufacturing.  This has given him a broad and holistic perspective on innovation that is rare among business leaders.  He remains deeply embedded in each of these disciplines, and knows how to bridge them to deliver innovations that have a lasting impact on the business, its markets, and the world.

Anthony is an award-winning and internationally-recognized innovator, having brought numerous new innovations to market.  He is a deeply associative thinker with a classic “Innovator’s DNA” profile.  His disdain for the status quo, and his love for pursuing “what’s next”, have garnered him a well-earned reputation as an agent of change.

Anthony currently serves as the Executive Director of Global Innovation Institute (GInI – www.gini.org), as well as the CEO of Legacy Innovation Group (www.legacyinnova.com).

Education and Training

• BSc in Engineering, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA)
• MSc in Engineering, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA)
• Masters in Management, Aquinas College (Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
• Executive Development Training, Ashridge Business School (London, UK)
• Executive Development Training, The Indian School of Business {Hyderabad, India)