Corinna Galliano is a researcher at the University of Sydney Business School whose work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, paradox theory, and how founders experience the tensions most business schools teach as strategy problems. Born in Italy, trained as a structural civil engineer, then a management consultant - she left everything behind at 35 and started over in Australia.

A Vedic meditation teacher trained under Thom Knowles, including three months in the Himalayas. Corinna has an unusual range.

A conversation about transformation you can't see while it's happening, the identity paradox hiding inside every startup, and the childhood belief that worry keeps you safe.

This is The Reinventor's Mindset. Let's dive in.

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction - Dr Corinna Galliano

1:20 How transformation actually feels from the inside

3:04 Teaching entrepreneurship as a process, not a trait

9:14 How to connect students with their why

13:15 Corinna's story - engineering, Italy, and the plan that collapsed

19:42 The loneliness that clarifies - arriving in Australia at 35

25:10 Vedic meditation & what stillness gave her

32:18 Leading with a hypothesis - effectuation in practice

39:37 The identity paradox hiding inside every startup

41:21 What childhood belief did you have to let go of?

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