Advisory & Executive Education

I advise established companies, family enterprises, corporate innovation teams, and senior leaders on how to identify, launch, and scale new ventures from within.

Many organizations are effective at generating ideas and running pilots. Far fewer have the structures, incentives, leadership systems, and organizational commitment required to turn promising experiments into enduring businesses. I help leadership teams diagnose these barriers and design practical pathways from opportunity selection to venture launch and scale.

As a Principal Lecturer of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, I design and lead executive education programs for senior leaders around the world. My teaching and advisory work focus on corporate entrepreneurship, strategic renewal, venture scaling, organizational design, incentives, and innovation leadership.

My approach draws on experience across academia, industry, entrepreneurship, and venture investing. My research examines how organizations mobilize talent, capital, and commitment around uncertain opportunities. Prior to academia, I was an early executive at Grab, where I helped launch and scale new markets and business functions across Southeast Asia and built and managed teams of more than 200 employees.

Areas of Focus

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venture Scaling

Areas of Focus

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venture Scaling

Organizational Design, Talent, and Incentives

Engagements

Engagements may range from a focused executive workshop to a longer-term advisory or executive education relationship. They may include:

Selected Experience

Tata Group

As Faculty Director for a custom MIT Sloan Executive Education program for Tata Group, I co-created and led an intensive five-day program on corporate entrepreneurship and innovation in India.

The program brought together 45 senior executives from six Tata companies to examine how established organizations can identify, resource, launch, and scale new ventures from within. I worked with corporate stakeholders to define the program’s objectives, designed the learning agenda, assembled an interdisciplinary MIT faculty team, and taught throughout the immersive program.

MIT Sloan School of Management

As a Principal Lecturer of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, I teach executives and degree-program students about entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, strategic renewal, and venture scaling. My work combines research-based frameworks with practical tools that leaders can apply to active organizational challenges.

Grab

As an early executive at Grab, I helped the company expand beyond its original market and build new businesses and organizational capabilities across Southeast Asia.

My roles included launching operations in Thailand and Vietnam, serving as Regional General Manager of GrabCar, and becoming the company’s founding Vice President of Public Affairs. I built and led teams across strategy, operations, government affairs, policy, research, and social impact. This experience continues to shape my approach to venture building, organizational scaling, and growth under uncertainty.

Advisory and Executive Education Inquiries

I welcome conversations with organizations seeking to build new ventures from within, move promising pilots toward scale, strengthen their corporate entrepreneurship capabilities, or develop leaders who can sponsor and grow new businesses.

For advisory engagements, executive education, workshops, research collaborations, and speaking opportunities:

nteng@mit.edu