Laura Hassner

Job title: 
Strategic Advisor to the Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer
Department: 
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Bio/CV: 

Laura Hassner is the strategic advisor to UC Berkeley’s Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer. In this role, she manages the Berkeley Changemaker and co-instructs The Berkeley Changemakeran undergraduate course whose first offering enrolled almost ten percent of UC Berkeley’s incoming first-years. Previously, Laura was a Lecturer on Leadership at Berkeley Haas in both MBA for Working Professionals programs. She is a former Big Five consultant and financial advisor. She has also taught in a highly-challenged urban school and spent almost a decade innovating new products and programs for a national nonprofit.  Laura holds a BA, with honors, from Stanford University and an MBA, with honors, from Berkeley Haas. 

Session

Berkeley Changemaker - The Sum of Us: Building a Culture of Belonging