Last week was Toronto’s Creative Places + Spaces conference – a very dynamic gathering of speakers from not-for-profit and educational sectors, with some CBC talent and Toronto City Hall employees thrown in for good measure.

The theme of the day was collaboration. Presenters explored the unconventional ways that individuals, communities, and institutions can work together to [...]

Last week, I was invited to attend a speaker series at Rotman where I listened to an excellent presentation from Jeremy Gutsche, Chief Trend Hunter of Trendhunter.com. Gutsche spoke about his new book, Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the presentation did not [...]

Over the course of your career, you will be inevitably be tasked with a “small job”. It will usually be presented to you in the following manner:
“Client A wants us to whip up a Project B. Can you have something ready by end-of-day tomorrow?”
It’s the kind of job that neither the client nor the account [...]

So there’s no denying it. We’re in the throes of an economic downturn the likes of which none of us have seen or experienced to date. It’s ugly, and it’s getting uglier. Yet we still need to innovate. We still need to captivate. We still need to build.
So what do we do?

Last week, I was [...]

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