Eddie Mackle is an Innovation Lead in Accenture’s Global Centre for Innovation, The Dock. His work focuses on leading multi-disciplinary teams that bring innovation to life for global clients; facilitating immersive design thinking sessions for executives; and helping clients achieve their innovation and transformation agendas.

Eddie was formerly an Initiative Manager at LEGO. His work focused on building global projects in partnership with business, government and NGOs.

Eddie also worked as a Project Manager at the UN Global Compact; a strategic policy initiative for business. His role involved managing a community of global companies focused on advancing UN-Business partnerships; supporting the UN systems efforts to enter into partnership with the private sector; and facilitating private sector engagement in support of education and learning goals.

Prior to the United Nations, Eddie was a Strategy and Change Consultant at IBM. Through his role, he worked on several multi-country transformation projects across several sectors, including: government, transport and energy.

Eddie holds a Computer Science Degree from University College Dublin, an MBA from the University of Geneva and has a patent filed in the USA.