At the World Economic Forum, former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer on the future of Social and Search

How Product Managers can leverage Human Centered Design to solve problems and pain points

TED Talk on how teams can solve Wicked problems and Complex problems and synthesize a vision with Systems Thinking.

Always impressed by the quality of the Schulich School of Business - York University MBA, voted #1 in 2009-2010 Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking by The Aspen Institute, a Washington, DC leadership think tank.

Proud of my Alma Mater, Saint Mary’s University, for signing the UN's Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME)

Dr. David Cooperrider shares how Appreciative Inquiry can elevate strengths and create combinations of strengths to make a system’s weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, Senior lecturer at MIT and Founder of the Society for Organizational Learning shares his perspectives on systems thinking with IBM.

Annie Duke, world poker champion, on using uncertainty for success in the real world. She won the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2010.

"You've only had the experiences that you have, you only have the hypothesis that you can come up, you only have the strategies that you can think of."

This 9 day, 60,000+ person event was a water color portrait, and evidence, of humanity’s potential if only it could abandon the vestiges of hate, prejudice, and judgement to history. The sounds of laughter, joy, singing, and dialogue converged not into a melting pot but into a musical mosaic - humanity’s multilingual symphony composed of every individual from every nation, culture, religion, caste, and gender all singing the anthem of humanity.

Keynote given at DeployCon 2012 by James Urquhart, VP of Product Strategy, enStratus on Complex Adaptive Systems and Network Effects. 

Slide deck: https://www.slideshare.net/jurquhart/gluecon-keynote

Dr. Brenda Zimmerman, Professor of Strategy and Policy, provides a perspective on how the Schulich MBA prepares future healthcare leaders to lead, manage, and innovate in complex, multi-stakeholder organizations and environments

Dr. Michael Porter explains in 5min why Shared Value is a Competitive Advantage.  "We can create economic value simultaneously to societal benefit" 

A great introduction to what Appreciative Inquiry is and how organizations can use a strengths based approach  to build innovative, engaged cultures that bring diverse stakeholders together.

 

A brief 9min video by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD who discusses how we form enemy images of one another.

 

How can Product Managers create value in a multistakeholder environment?

3min video

 

Wherever you work, people are always writing a "book" on you. Listen to former DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman's advice on controlling your professional reputation. Recorded January 12, 2016 as part of the Kellogg Brave Leader Series.

Oh hello there!

So I see you made it all the way down here. Well done! Enjoy this video as a reward :)

Click here for Lyrics

Still with me?

Then come join me on a journey through the Kaleidoscope of Humanity :)

Still loitering about while eating a twizzler?

Welcome to the Cool Kids Club cuz that’s what we do:

  • Imaginate

  • Daydream

  • Eat Twizzlers

If you’re still there, then that means we have to become friends! :)

Cuz that’s how the universe works.

At this point, I know we’re going to be buds :D

Let’s hang out and do kewl stuff together!

Like wandering the Worlds of Wonder.

Let’s appreciate Nature together :)

I'm a nature nut - what can I say? Nature is a natural part of me. hyuk hyuk :)

If you made it all the way down here to the very end, then you know that the end is just the start of something very new.

Let's be friends - reach out to me, there's always space for you at my table.

You're always welcome to come hang out with me.

You'll always have a spot on my team because you'll be my first pick

And you're always on my invite list :)