I have been meaning to write a small TalentBridge piece on OpinionOttawa for some time now. TalentBridge was recognized as a best practise in the “Talent White Paper” and it is really gratifying to see the effort of the last two years being recognized in this manner. One of the comments left for the Talent [...]
I just heard some wonderful news that I wanted to share right away. This is a great Ottawa success story, and specifically a Carleton U. success story that can be traced back to the Foundry Program. Cognovision, co-founded by two Carleton U. students, one of whom (Haroon Mirza) was with the Foundry Program in 2003-2004 [...]
Richard Florida made a statement about educational institutions in his talk on Friday at the “Creative Leadership Conference”. He said “Education Institutions should be about knowledge discovery and learning”. Allied to that statement he quoted Peter Drucker and mentioned “Research Universities as we know them will one day die”. The specific phrase he used for educational [...]
Today I was at the Creative Leadership conference hosted by the Conference Board of Canada and had the wonderful opportunity of listening to Dr. Richard Florida. To put it succintly, Ottawa needs more thought leaders like Dr. Florida to come through and make a case for “Reset”. Dr. Florida at length talked about how it [...]
These last two weeks have been hugely rewarding.
What started as a casual discussion in one of the TalentBridge meetings is starting to develop into a community initiative that has been on my drawing board - and has been close to my heart - for some time. Through TalentBridge, I am continually trying to build and [...]
My fascination with ideas goes back to my early days growing up in - what in a Canadian context would often be classified as - a tough environment. With not much going on around us, us being my younger sister and I, our ideas were our imaginary jet streams that we rode to give shape [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, TalentBridge - my dream project at OCRI - was on CBC Radio 91.5 FM on April 2nd, 2009 during the Ottawa Morning show! Julie Ireton, a reporter at CBC Radio with extensive experience reporting on business, technology and politics, has been reporting on some optimistic businesses stories during these recession/Nortel economic times and [...]
So a really proud moment for me is coming up tomorrow. TalentBridge, my program - my dream project, is being profiled on CBC radio tomorrow. That’s right, TalentBridge will be on CBC Radio tomorrow (April 3rd, 2009) at 7:15 a.m. in the morning news show!
