Claude Legrand

Claude Legrand is the President of Ideaction Inc. For over 25 years he has been one of North America’s leading experts in practical innovation and is an acclaimed and frequent conference presenter. He leads a team of experienced consultants who specialize in making organizations innovative and in delivering major innovation projects. Claude has extensive experience in teaching and consulting on innovation, strategic planning, and culture change, mostly for large North American and European organizations.

In 2007, he founded and was the first program director at the Centre of Excellence in Innovation Management at the Schulich Executive Education Centre, where he created the curriculum and taught the first Master in Innovation Management program course in North America.

He is the founder of the Association of Innovation Professionals in Toronto. He also developed a new program to teach innovative thinking in primary and secondary schools which will be piloted in 2011.

Claude was born in France and is a graduate of the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP). He now resides in Toronto, Canada.