Ideas Can't Wait
Ideas Can't Wait
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#2 How Lianna turned her school project into an assistive device that change lives
27 minutes Posted Sep 19, 2022 at 1:00 am.
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Lianna Genovese is the CEO & founder of Imaginable solutions. She created an assistive device called Guided Hands at the age of 19 to help people with limited hand mobility to write, paint, draw and access tech through touch screens. Since the founding of the company, Lianna has won multiple awards including the 2021 Canadian National James Dyson Award, 2022 People's Choice Award at the Arthritis Society, and 2021 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. She also recently secured institutional investment from a group of US Impact Investors

In our conversation we talked about:

  • How Lianna turned her school project into a real business
  • How Lianna overcomes her fears and obstacles as a female solo-founder
  • Routines & Habits that helped her to balance school and start-up