Chandra Briggman is an innovation, marketing and operations executive with 20 years of experience that spans both start-ups and large enterprises. She brings a wealth of expertise with particular strengths in building organizations and product portfolios. She is well-versed in innovation, strategic planning, and change management. Chandra is experienced in senior stakeholder management as well as public and government relations, and is gifted at synthesizing customer and industry insight to deliver solutions to organizational challenges.
She is currently a member of the management team of Venture Café Foundation, a mission-driven nonprofit with a mission to strengthen New England’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. With Venture Café is leverages her experience in large-scale innovation to help grow the foundation’s reach from the Kendall Square location. She is founder of Wide Angle Media – a digital media content and curated event production firm. As the former Director of Digital for USPS, she built the first digital division and innovation lab for the organization with a $30 million operating budget. There she led the development of a digital services platform roadmap projected to generate $2 billion in revenue. Prior to this role, Chandra served in leadership roles across U.S. Postal Service that involved board engagement, government relations, change management and strategic partnerships, managing multi-billion dollar service lines, and overseeing team formation and management.
Chandra is proponent of human-centered, conscious and systems innovation. She teaches product innovation, lean startup principles, and agile methodologies at General Assembly Boston and the Harvard Startup Bootcamp. Chandra mentors entrepreneurs at the Babson University’s WINLab accelerator, Founder Institute Boston, Hult Prize 2018, Brandeis University 3Day Startup and Boston University Sino Summit. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of innovation, innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurship, media, women in tech and women in the workplace.
Chandra holds a Master’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Master’s from Johns Hopkins University, and Bachelor’s from Columbia International University.