An international collaborative leadership expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her over 40 years of working inside and consulting with corporations and organizations. She helps companies create workplaces where talent and innovation are unleashed -- making them more productive, efficient, and profitable. Ms. Pixton is a founding partner of Accelinnova, a consulting firm for leaders transforming their organizations. She speaks and writes on creating cultures of trust, leading collaboration, and enabling business agility. Her models are found in the books she coauthored, The Agile Culture: Leading Though Trust and Ownership and Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility.

Ms. Pixton was primarily responsible for building the Swiss Electronic Stock Exchange, developing sophisticated control systems for electrical power plants throughout the world, and converting complex technologies and data systems to merge large financial institutions. Her background includes leading the development of e-commerce projects, real-time applications, positioning systems, and original computational research. In 2004, she was selected as one of 30 Visionary Women to Watch, a program that recognizes women who bring new insight to their fields, and in 2010 she was named one of 30 Women to Watch by Utah Business. Ms. Pixton is a sought-after keynote speaker and lecturer at universities in the areas of business ethics, organizational development, and collaborative leadership.

Her education includes a master's degree in computer science, three years of graduate studies in theoretical physics, and a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She can be reached at ppixton at accelinnova.com.