Maryam is an award-winning innovation and strategy design executive who has spent her career sparking innovation, propelling change and creating purposeful impact.
She is the Founder & CEO of Innovation Bazar, a consulting and training firm focused on accelerating growth, enhancing customer experiences and driving differentiation for clients across multiple industries and sectors, including cleverbridge, BayWa r.e, BASF, IBM, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, MetLife, Hyatt Hotels Corporation,Chanel Beauty, and Neiman Marcus among others.
Maryam strives in simplifying challenges and setting the vision for her clients through collaborative workshops, creative brainstorming, crafted experiences, interactive facilitation and co-creative consulting. A natural born storyteller, who leads with empathy and uses this approach with her clients to build trust and help them achieve their short and long-term goals.
She leads a multi-disciplinary team and engages in all stages of the strategy design and customer experience management process from conducting a variety of research methods highly focused on learning about users needs and wants, trends and industry landscape to generating actionable insights, ideation, prototyping, testing and gathering feedback.
In addition to consulting, she teaches graduate, MBA and short executive courses at several universities including NYU, MIT and Tec de Monterrey University; and advises world-class startups including Minerva CQ, Makeena, Qatch, Gamitee, Jobful, ZigZag, BedLinker, Adei House Vietnam, Hanoi Lotus Homestay, at several accelerators including XRC Labs, WEVE and SongHan.
Maryam’s diverse from living across 4 continents, has given her a unique perspective and ability to think outside the box and adapt easily to people of diverse cultural backgrounds.
She serves on a couple of advisory boards including the advisory board for the design thinking executive program at the University of Riverside in California, and the board of UN Women US NY, helping the organization to create compelling solutions for advancing equality and empowering women in the workplace.
Maryam shares her insights on Innovation, Digital Transformation, Creative Leadership and Strategy Design, publicly at global conferences and panels including, WomenTech Network, Creative Tech Week, TechFest Vietnam, and SAP Next-Gen, from 2018- 2022. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in English from the University of Azad in Tehran and a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing from New York University.
Prior to founding Innovation Bazar, Maryam held leadership positions at IBM, First Republic Bank, mm1, and the Neiman Marcus Group.
CERTIFICATIONS
ExperienceInnovation | Aware
ExperienceInnovation | Learn
ExperienceChange
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner issued by IBM
Agile scrum Master issued by Scrum Alliance
AWARDS
Inaugural Forbes Women Nominee, April 2021
Greatest Asset and Service Award, First Republic Bank – December 2007
CERTIFICATIONS
ExperienceInnovation | Aware
ExperienceInnovation | Learn
ExperienceChange
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner issued by IBM
Agile scrum Master issued by Scrum Alliance