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Adjunct Professor | Innovation Leadership

May 7, 2025 1:06:31 PM

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Reinhold Steinbeck is a Global Educator and Leader in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. As Managing Director of IntoActions, an innovation and learning design firm based in San Francisco, Reinhold helps organizations across all sectors build strategic innovation capacity through human-centered design. Company Motto: Turning Insights Into Actions! With a passion for the science, practice, and technology of teaching and learning, Reinhold has held teaching, research, and global program appointments in innovation and learning design at leading universities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Switzerland, and the US. As a Member of the Faculty of the School of Counseling Psychology and Education at Santa Clara University, he teaches graduate- and doctoral-level project-based courses at the intersection of learning, design innovation, and technology. Reinhold's background is international, and his perspective is global. He learned to tinker on a hop farm in Southern Germany and has lived, studied, and worked on four continents. Reinhold thrives in diverse and international environments and loves to share experiences and perspectives he has gained by traveling, learning, and working across the globe. Apple Inc. and Stanford University were Reinhold's real-world classrooms, where he learned the spirit of design innovation and the San Francisco Bay Area's entrepreneurial culture. Through a series of leadership positions at Apple, Stanford, and the University of San Francisco over two decades, that spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship has infused his work and inspired his passion for sharing this culture with others to improve lives worldwide. Reinhold's work in Brazil, in particular, was a foundational personal and professional experience. During his one-year visiting professorship at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, he founded the Laboratório de Design, Inovação e Criatividade (d-USP Leste), a social innovation initiative that connected students and professors with non-profits in São Paulo's favelas to create innovative solutions to community challenges. And since 2013, he has trained over 250 social entrepreneurs from 120 enterprises as part of Brazil's largest social-technical accelerator. His work in Brazil led to an invitation to present at the 2011 TEDx Conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil.