Portfolio of Select Work
Project - Brookfield Institute
Employment in 2030: Action Labs
September 2020 - Present | An 11-month initiative focused on translating the Brookfield Institute’s Employment in 2030 research into practical solutions that help workers across Canada gain the skills and abilities critical for the future of work.
FUTURES RESEARCH | PROCESS DESIGN | DESIGN RESEARCH | PROTOTYPING | FACILITATION
Project - Palette Skills
Labour Market Research
January 2021 | Using a variety of data sources, conducted labour market research to inform the design of Palette’s next re-skilling program. This research identified jobs with growing demand in target regions, adjacent talent in occupations on the decline, and the remaining skill gaps that a new program would need to fill to support job transitions.
RESEARCH | PROGRAM DESIGN
Project - Evergreen & City of Calgary
Foresight for Resilient Cities
March 2020 - December 2020 | A virtual Future Cities Canada initiative that leveraged strategic foresight tools to enable future-focused city building aligned to global resilience goals through network activation and capacity building. This project included an in-depth pilot with the City of Calgary.
FUTURES RESEARCH | PROCESS DESIGN | FACILITATION | WRITING | INNOVATION LEADERSHIP
Published article - Apolitical
How horizon scanning can help make sense of an uncertain future
September 2020 | A look at three strategic foresight methods for identifying disruptive changes on the horizon.
FUTURES RESEARCH | WRITING
Published report - Future Cities Canada
A Guide to Using Scenarios: Foresight for Resilient Cities
August 2020 | A comprehensive guide to understanding strategic foresight scenarios, and how to apply them.
FUTURES RESEARCH | INNOVATION LEADERSHIP | WRITING
Blog - Evergreen
Planning for our urban futures beyond COVID-19
April 2020 | A brief commentary on the value of applying strategic foresight tools to the make sense of the heightened uncertainty brought on by COVID-19.
FUTURES RESEARCH | WRITING
Project - Evergreen
Evergreen’s Innovation Process
September 2019 - August 2020 | A year-long project to design and codify Evergreen’s internal processes and decision making frameworks to better support agility and the organization’s ability to innovate. This project included extensive internal and external user research, several engagement workshops, and the development of an action plan to ensure the process was ritualized and embedded in all areas of the organization moving forward.
DESIGN RESEARCH | PROCESS DESIGN | INNOVATION LEADERSHIP | ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Published report - Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Signs of the time: Expert insights about employment in 2030
August 2019 | A look at how a range of experts across Canada are thinking about the future of employment, as well as which trends they believe are most likely to create change.
DESIGN RESEARCH | PROCESS DESIGN | FACILITATION | WRITING
Design Fiction - Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Six artifacts from the future
June 2019 | Inspired by research on employment in the year 2030, artifacts from the future were designed to spark thinking about what kinds of goods and services might exist in the next 10 years and beyond
DESIGN RESEARCH | PRODUCT DESIGN | FUTURES RESEARCH
Published report - Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Turn and Face the Strange: Changes impacting the future of employment in Canada
April 2019 | Using strategic foresight research methods, this report explores 31 broad trends with the potential to impact Canada's labour market in 2030.
FUTURES RESEARCH | WRITING
Project - Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Employment in 2030
October 2018 - March 2020 | In partnership with Nesta, this project combined foresight research, six cross-country expert workshops, and machine learning to shed light on how the labour market may shift by 2030. The purpose of this study was to provide a new source of labour market information for policy makers.
FUTURES RESEARCH | DESIGN RESEARCH | PROCESS DESIGN | FACILITATION | WRITING | INNOVATION LEADERSHIP
Thesis - OCAD University
Engagement Matters: An exploration of public engagement and its futures in Toronto
April - December 2018 | As public engagement gains momentum as a mechanism for engaging residents in a changing political climate, its effectiveness is more important than ever. This study, divided into three volumes, explores matters related to public engagement for city-building decisions.
DESIGN RESEARCH | FUTURES RESEARCH | PROCESS DESIGN | FACILITATION | WRITING
Project - Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Robot Talks: Citizen Perspectives on Labour Automation
January - May 2018 | We visited over 36 communities across Ontario, and asked over 300 Ontarians about their understanding of labour automation, their reactions, and the programs they think will help them adjust.
DESIGN RESEARCH | PROCESS DESIGN | WRITING
Project - Mass Culture
Designing A National Arts Research Organization
January - April 2018 | To support the early development of a new arts research organization, we delivered a one-day workshop at the Ontario Trillium Foundation to generate feedback from key stakeholders. This feedback informed Mass Culture’s early strategic development.
DESIGN RESEARCH | FACILITATION | STRATEGY
Project - OCAD University
The Futures of Diet 2067
September - December 2017 | Applying strategic foresight methodologies including horizon scanning, scenario development and experiential futures, this project explored how a focus on health consciousness might impact daily food routines and cultural traditions, and the implications on North America’s food system.
FUTURES RESEARCH | DESIGN RESEARCH | WRITING
Project - Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Digital Literacy & Coding Pilot
September 2016 - August 2020 | The Digital Literacy + Coding Pilot was a collaborative initiative designed to test an accessible, scalable, model for delivering digital literacy. This project ran at six locations across Ontario, helping generate key insights to inform the future of Canada’s digital literacy education.
DESIGN RESEARCH | PROCESS DESIGN | PRODUCT DESIGN | FACILITATION | INNOVATION LEADERSHIP | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | WRITING
Project - Evergreen
Tower Renewal Partnership
September 2014 - December 2015 | An exploration into the feasibility of transforming Toronto’s postwar towers and their surrounding neighbourhoods into more sustainable, resilient and healthy places, fully integrated into their growing cities.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | INNOVATION LEADERSHIP
Project - Land Food People Foundation
Local Sustainable Food Market Analysis
September 2013 - February 2014 | An exploration of the market demand for a local sustainable food brokerage service to be provided by an established food system charity.
DESIGN RESEARCH | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | BUSINESS DESIGN | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Project - Land Food People Foundation
Buy it to Vote!
2010 | A year long campaign designed to engage Ontario consumers to purchase more local sustainable food.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | INNOVATION LEADERSHIP
Project - Land Food People Foundation
Local Organic Food Co-operative
2007 - 2008 | Development of a business plan to inform the launch of a local organic food box program for a group of Waterloo Region farmers.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Project - University of Toronto
Local Sustainable Food Procurement Needs Assessment
2005 | In advance of a new university-wide food service agreement, we conducted user research to understand the need for including additional guidelines. Students were asked about their desire for local, sustainable, ethical, and culturally appropriate foods, resulting in the development of a university-wide food buying policy.
DESIGN RESEARCH | ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE