Educators and teachers do some of the most valuable work in society. As a teacher, Maria grapples with the question how might we create powerful learning environments? She then takes her insights and applies them in the classroom. Maria has also worked with the Critical Thinking Consortium and credits some of her insights to the work that they are doing. In this podcast, we explore how Maria puts her work into practice. She describes her job as creating meaningful, authentic learning experience ...
Feb 12, 2017•28 min
In this conversation how Bradley Tusk and his company, Tusk Strategies, helped UBER penetrate cities across the world. Bradley has several companies, and we learn about them in the podcast, but what is exceptionally good at is the socializing of innovations. When most people think about innovation, we tend to think of shiny new things. Few people think about how innovations are adopted. One of the most important questions for companies working to disrupt a sector or system, is how do we get peop...
Feb 05, 2017•38 min
In this podcast, I interview Al Etmanski, social entrepreneur, and author of the book Impact: Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation. In this podcast, Al shares many insights on his years of working to change the system of care for people with disabilities. Al proposed and led the campaign to establish the world's only disability savings plan - the RDSP. He is an Ashoka Fellow, and a faculty member of John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD). He was recently awar...
Jan 29, 2017•27 min
In this podcast, I chat with Kaitlin Mongentale who founded her company after having an aha moment in the most unlikely place. She was watching a friend juice a carrot and was surprised by how much of the pulp is thrown away. In the podcast, she shares how she went from this kitchen insight to founding her company Pulp Pantry. Hope you enjoy listening to this podcast. Hope you enjoy the podcast. This podcast was recorded over Skype. Music provided by Clint Harewood you contact him on these websi...
Jan 22, 2017•34 min
In this podcast I talk with Toronto's chief city planner. How do you be disruptive under the public gaze, for public good and with public money. In this conversation Jennifer discusses her approach to building better cities. For her, if we want to plan great cities we have to human life and social interaction at the heart of the practice. Hope you enjoy the podcast. This podcast was recorded over the phone. Music provided by Clint Harewood you contact him on these websites: Facebook: https://www...
Jan 15, 2017•39 min
In this podcast, Paul Heidebrecht at the University of Waterloo discusses the strange, yet beautiful connection between Peace Building and Startup organisation. With his work, he is working to disrupt how universities foster innovation. The strange podcast provides a lot of insight for those of us interested in disruption and system change. Hope you enjoy the podcast. This podcast was recorded on Skype. Music provided by Clint Harewood you contact him on these websites: Facebook: https://www.fac...
Jan 09, 2017•21 min
In this podcast, Chris explains how Bridgeable uses Service Design to disrupt how people think about their organisations and where they focus. His company works with large institutions and organisations to help them manage change and stay competitive in their market. This podcast was recorded over Skype, both speakers were in different locations. Music provided by Clint Harewood. Email - [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tamo.T Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clin...
Dec 25, 2016•28 min
In this podcast, I interview Yarrow Kraner. Yarrow started a social network of changemakers long before Facebook existed. Today, he is a filmmaker and full-time disruptor. He curates a similar community called HATCH. Where he and is community find ways to HATCH a better world. HATCH a network, movement, and a series of experiences designed to catalyze CREATIVITY to HATCH a better world. Hope you enjoy the podcast. This podcast was recorded on Skype. Music provided by Clint Harewood you contact h...
Dec 18, 2016•18 min
In this podcast, Crista shares her insights on the role of conflict and curiosity within the startup culture. She shares how helping people work through conflict can bring people to a place of breakthrough versus a place of breakdown. Crista works to support entrepreneurs at the University of Waterloo incubator Velocity.
Dec 11, 2016•23 min
In this podcast, Christian asks the provocative question will there be a need for a building called "the school" in the future? As a partner in an educational design studio called Wonder, we hear the thoughts of someone who has thought about and worked on reimaging the learning spaces of the future. Christain brings a refreshing take on being bold with our agenda's as people working to design the future. This podcast was recorded on Skype. Music provided by Clint Harewood you contact him via ema...
Dec 04, 2016•22 min
In this podcast, we explore the challenges of trying to disrupt the food system. Diane points out that although we have made some of the gains, there is still a lot of work to do on improving the food system. Follow Diane's work at www.changefood.org . Sign up for their mailing list, follow them on Twitter and Instagram. During the podcast, we talked about Vertical Farms from MIT. Here is the link for those of you who want to know more: http://openag.media.mit.edu/ This podcast was recorded on S...
Nov 27, 2016•15 min
Brendan is a Program Manager and Startup Coach at Green House incubator. Green House is a startup incubator at the University of Waterloo. At Green House, Brendan works to help students bring their ideas to life. In this podcast, we discuss a range of topics like procurement, sustainability, coaching, and most importantly disruption. If you like this podcast share it, like it or comment on it.
Nov 20, 2016•27 min
In this podcast, Anjuli Solanki and I discuss how she and her organization use public art as a source of innovation at the city-level. Anjuli uses some very practical examples to explain how public art can be used to transform or build communities. Anjuli works for the for the STEPS initiative a public art organization. STEPS biggest project to date has been their St. Clair Project. In the podcast, she mentioned PATCH - the public art on construction hoarding, and she also mentions the Pangea Se...
Nov 13, 2016•22 min
Akhtar Mohammed makes a case for a financial system in which the social good of society is seen as a basic requirement for the financial sector. His understanding of the financial sector, if taken seriously, could disrupt a trillion dollar industry. He wrote an article on Open Democracy that provides a gist of the content for his upcoming book on Islamic Finance. Akhtar Mohammed graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2011 with a B.A. majoring in Political Science and minoring in Hi...
Nov 07, 2016•29 min
In this podcast I chat with Ashley Good from FailFoward. Ashley works with organizations to help turn failure into success. In this conversation we explore that challenges of personal failure and how we are not used to confronting failure. Maybe just my website - https://failforward.org/ and if you want another, then twitter - https://twitter.com/FailForward
Oct 30, 2016•21 min
In this podcast, I chat with Sheryl Winarick. Sheryl is an immigration lawyer and argues that immigrants are creating more job for americans than taking jobs. She also argues that immigrants actually make america safer. Listen to how she is attempting to disrupt America's approach to immigration.
Oct 23, 2016•21 min
In this podcast, Jennifer MacRae and I talk about how education can help foster the next generation of problem-solvers.
Oct 16, 2016•32 min
In this podcast I discuss profit for purpose with Marketing expert Phillp Haid. Phillp is the cofounder for Public Inc a Marketing company that helps organizations merge profit and purpose
Oct 08, 2016•30 min
