It's human to create. NBee interviews original guests who combine different fields, skills and talents to create innovative businesses, products and new ways to see the world. Find out what they did, how they did it and how cross-pollination can help you stay ahead of the curve.
Breannen Allison founded Thimbleberry Designs. She talks on how coming to know her Cree & Métis heritage led to Thimbleberry & how art, family, culture, sustainability & truth & reconciliation combine in her business.
Jessica Ketwaroo-Green is a social policy expert & consultant. She chats on the ELAT framework she created to help organizations & companies move from diversity to inclusion.
Part2. Janice Francisco, founder at Bridgepoint Effect, talks purpose, quieting anxiety & the value of immediate wins in uncertain environments. She chats on how employees & leaders can move forward & collaborate better even in trying times.
Janice Francisco, founder at Bridgepoint Effect, talks creativity, change & making decisions in the face of continuing uncertainty. She chats on where organizations are now & how employees & leaders can move forward & collaborate better even in trying times.
Educational designer & podcast host Natalie Vardabasso talks innovation in education, how learning is changing & how education can think differently & better prepare students for the future.
How to innovate inside companies? Dr. Tendayi Viki talks intrapreneurship, his new book Pirates in the Navy, what companies & innovators need to know generally & in pandemic times to survive & stay viable.
Heard of a rare albino moose? Entrepreneur Connie Stacey chats on the power of outside perspectives & unconventional ideas, growing her business, Growing Greener Innovations (Grengine) & their vision to bring energy to the world.
Co-hosts of (Ex)clusion podcast, Marcie Hawranik & Alicia Bjarnason lead Canadian Equality Consulting & Bjarg Consulting, respectively. We chat equity, diversity & inclusion (EDI) in organizations - what it means, how it supports innovation, better workplaces & policies & the unequal impact of the pandemic as well as the EDI ideas behind our podcasts.
Award-winning writer Omar Mouallem started Pandemic University to support writers & journalists during the pandemic. He chats on creating a niche platform that builds community & revenues in a new world for writers.
Chrissy Gow at Eventmobi chats on how the event management software company changed how it serves customers, pivoted its business model & how it's working to make online events more interactive, fun & engaging.
Mark Philpott left a corporate career for social enterprise. He chats global travel, big projects & cross-pollinating skills between fields.
Diane Mulcahy wrote "The Gig Economy", a best-seller. She chats on how to develop a career as an independent worker when traditional careers aren't traditional anymore.
What to do about work when the world is uncertain? Dr. Nayla Bahri chats on what we can do about work & careers in times of upheaval & regular times. She's a career coach, teacher & leadership & development expert & former student dean at the Columbia School of Business in New York who shares through a human approach to work, careers & life beyond.
How to creatively reinvent a career? Carl, Nathalie & Clark worked in Alberta's oil & gas sector. Now they do completely different jobs. They chat on critical ingredients of successful reinventions, lessons & how not to get stuck.
How to reinvent a career in an industry in transition? Carl, Nathalie & Clark all worked in Alberta's oil & gas sector. Now they do completely different jobs. This episode is on reinventing careers & lessons from it.
Ling Ling Phung founder of Two Lings is a business strategy, social innovation & emerging market expert. She chats on meaningful work & lessons from exploring & innovating globally.
Want to take on new projects? Explorer Mario Rigby chats on purpose & realising big dreams. He's walked the length of Africa, cycled across Canada & shares the most unexpected things he learned.
How to solve big challenges with new collaborations? As Director of IT at the Calgary Drop-In Centre, Helen Wetherley Knight saw opportunities in challenges & constraints. She talks tech in the service of strategy & social mission.
What’s amazing about plants? Plant scientist Jerrin Victor tells us how growing new kinds of plants faster can have an impact on challenges from deforestation to climate change, biodiversity & feeding the world. He chats on why plants are his passion but creating jobs is the most important part of his work.
How can science fiction help create positive futures? Ari Popper founded SciFutures. He talks about his company’s work helping other organizations innovate products & services through scifi storytelling. Science, tech, the present & future meet in SciFutures' work.
2000+ student teams get 12 weeks to solve a real-world problem, develop a business & a mobile app in the Technovation Challenge. Team Zeal talks camera scans, business savvy, storytelling & using code to reduce carbon footprints & about being young women in a non-traditional field.
What’s the connection between innovation & prosperity? Deepa Prahalad, a strategy & design expert & author, talks economic inclusion, entrepreneurship in emerging markets, uniqueness & good design & opportunities.
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