Whether creating a new product, planning for what’s ahead with tools like trend analysis and scenario planning, navigating the twists and turns of the innovation process, or driving business development, I’ll work with you to design, manage and facilitate your project. Together, we’ll build strategies that prepare you for what’s coming and help you grow and thrive in a constantly changing world.

Innovation Services

• Innovation committee management

• Innovation project management

• Innovation project fundraising & grant writing

• Innovation research

• Product or Service Procurement

• Prospecting

• Scenario planning

• Trend research and analysis

• Workshop facilitation

Published Work

Innovation Article on Medium.com

• What the F is Innovation?

Top Trends Impacting Leaders in 2024/25 on Medium.com

• Sorry, what was that? I was distracted.

• Innovating Change

• The Rising Tide of Cancer: A Call to Action for Leaders

• Living Longer

• Y to Z - The Changing of the Guards

• The Evolution of Hybrid Work - From Where and When to Who and How

• Technology Trend: Generation AI

• Mastering Change with Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI)

Trend Decks

• Future of Theatre - Post COVID Crisis - 2021 - 18 Trends

• Future of Volunteer Engagement in Hospitals - Post COVID Crisis - 2020 10 Trend Sample

Reports and Articles

• Predicting the Future of Volunteer Engagement with Strategic Foresight (with Adriane Beaudry) (Winter 2023)

• OCAD U: Decrypting the Medium - A Report on the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Market (Winter 2022)

• OSCA Today: Reimagining Education: Our Schools, Post-Pandemic (Fall, 2020)

• Sustainable: Simple Ways to Stay Calm and Positive Amidst Chaos, from 5 meditation teachers (April 21, 2020)

Rethinking Media - Broadcast dialogue

• Meet Broadcast Dialogue’s newest contributor Eric Blais (August 29, 2019)

• Is content still king? (September 26, 2019)

• Re-Channeling (November 1, 2019)

• It’s all about the experience (November 22, 2019)

• Combating ‘groupthink’ in the broadcast industry (January 27, 2020)

• The Litany Against Fear (February 21, 2020)

• What’s Next? (April 13, 2020)

• The New Normal (June 5, 2020)

• How unpacking social systems can help your sales process (September 4, 2020)

• Applying Design Thinking to Misinformation (October 30, 2020)

• Innovation, Adaptive Leadership and Work Avoidance (February 2, 2021)

• New Beginnings, Time for Action (June 22, 2021)

Speaking Engagements

UPCOMING

PREVIOUS

October 23, 2024 - Volunteer Canada - Looking into the Future with Data: The Strategic Foresight Approach

August 9, 2023 - University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Language Studies, Innovating in 2023

August 16, 2022 - Volunteer MBC - CADC Strategic Foresight Introduction

May 10, 2022 - Circadian Wellness / Eons - Strategic Foresight Session

July 15, 2021 - Points of Light Conference - Future of Volunteer Engagement, Using design thinking and future studies concepts

May 13, 2021 - TAVA May Workshop - Towards a Bright Future

February 11th, 2020 - Foresight Essentials - Change Makers - 2021 JOINT CONFERENCE with TAVA & Volunteer Toronto

November 19th, 2020 - A Strategic Foresight Primer - COVID-19 Forum - Volunteer MBC

March 28th, 2019 - The Politics of Innovation - Guest Speaker - Course: Design Thinking Incubator: from problem into prototype - University of Toronto

March 26th, 2018 - Strategic Foresight in the Wild - Guest Speaker - Course: Strategic Foresight Lab - OCAD U