Loredana Padurean is the Senior Associate Dean at Asia School of Business (ASB), a collaboration between the MIT Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia (the Central Bank of Malaysia), and holds an appointment of International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan where she also teaches in 3 executive education programs.

At ASB, Prof. Loredana has been one of the key “nailers” behind the establishment of the school and in particular, has directed the development of the globally recognized action learning program at ASB. She is a global entrepreneurial academic with a track record of program, school and intellectual leadership for multiple degrees. She is a global keynote speaker and her popular “Nail it, Scale it, Sail it” is a popular TedX talk.

This “Nail it, Scale it, Sail it” describes the evolution of start-ups to scale-ups to sail-ups, the challenges, opportunities and leadership styles that come with each stage. Prof. Loredana has an MA in Communication and Economics and a PhD in Management from USI Switzerland.

In the past 5 years Prof. Loredana has conducted extensive executive programs for Asia School of Business and MIT Sloan Executive Education in the area of intra/entrepreneurship, innovation, SMART skills, agile, for large global corporations such as China Construction Bank, Google Malaysia, AirAsia, and in Malaysia to some of the largest Malaysians financial and insurance institutions such Maybank, CIMB, RHB, Prudential, the leading telecommunication companies such as Astro and Axiata, governmental and national agencies such as Khazanah Nasional and GreenTech.