Professor - Leadership and Innovation
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Total years of experience :44 years, 2 Months
Professor in Leadership and Creativity/Innovation. Applied research in creativity and innovation, corporate cultures, transmedia and visual analytics. Designing courses in talent management, branding, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Teaching part-time courses in (1) independent studies in leadership, (2) leading workplace innovation and leadership, (3) culture and sustainability.
Special Advisor to the National Council on Client Relationships and Customer Experience. Identify and disseminate current competitive analysis and future trends.
We are a small boutique firm that provide design and delivery of programs in scenario planning, strategic leadership, corporate culture, key staff retention, internal branding, succession planning, re-visioning retirement, organizational effectiveness and performance management.
Certified in use of Barrett Cultural Transformation Tools, 20-subscale MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator for Individuals and Organizations), FIRO-B, Values-Driven Leadership methodologies, as well as the Stanford Creativity in Business program to assess the organizations current capacity to plan and implement successful change. Such assessments are used to develop comprehensive plans to lead professional and organizational change and maximize the use of human capital.
Innovation Metrics
As part of the Advisory Group, the objective of our studies is to identify the practices of Canadian industry concerning innovation performance measurement and management in order to recommend solutions for economic growth and prosperity in diverse sectors of Canadian industry.
Have previously taught Management for the Creative Industries and Qualitative Research Methods: Business Anthropology and Organizational Ethnography. Currently designing new graduate course for summer school in 2018: Leading Innovation and revising Qualitative Research Methods for graduate students. Teach in summer session April to August each year.
Designed and deliver a graduate course in the study of the politics and psychology of organizational life, with emphasis on change management and transformation. Approximately 20 PhD students per term.
Teaching international business, entrepreneurship, and strategy.
Adjunct professor with both the Faculty of Business and the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Research areas in social innovation and creativity clusters as a source of economic development. Market research in psychographics, visual analytics and memetics with a focus on experiential marketing and branding.
The Business Consulting Group and Creative Intelligence Lab was designed to support innovative practices in organizations of any size. The Group was made up of talented students who acted in a consulting role. Projects undertaken include branding, training and development (including design and delivery of courses), corporate storytelling, interactive media and design and competitive intelligence research. The CI Lab also organized the International Interaction Design (IxDA) Association conference in Vancouver 2009.
There comes a time in your life when you stop for a moment and look around you at what you have accomplished. How far you have come. Where you might yet go. All too often, that moment is not as joyful as you might have expected when you started to dream of your future. Most of us are not living the life that we planned, but instead, are living the life we are given. To use a mythic approach enables you to see what is just beyond your field of sight, and re-vision your relationships both personal and professional.
From the Back Cover:
If you want to tap the enormous inner resources you have within you, you must, I believe, rely on myth, story and metaphor to bring out who you are at core and the highest purpose of your life. But how do you do this? Use, don't just read, this workbook!
In it Ginger Grant guides you to experiencing your life as a hero's journey. She is a master teacher sharing exercises that you can use in a practical way to bring out your best in everyday life. This is life-changing, world changing, absorbing and fun - especially if used with guidance on your own search for meaning and contribution in life."
- Michael Ray, PhD., John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Creativity and Innovation (Emeritus) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and bestselling author of 'Creativity in Business' and 'The Highest Goal'
The tools of business are dynamic-capital, people, markets and ideas-all are living entities in a constant state of flux. To take these tools-to work with them and reorganize them in new and different ways to produce a positive effect in your life and your organization - is the essence of the creative process.
Based in archetypal psychology, this book provides a working methodology of personal individuation and corporate cultural transformation using the Hero's Journey Model developed by Joseph Campbell.
From the Back Cover:
'A lucid gateway to Joseph Campbell's monomyth of the hero's journey, particularly as it can be applied to one's career. Ginger Grant is an excellent interpreter of this invaluable but sometimes rather difficult body of work. I recommend her highly."
- William Gibson, futurist and best-selling author (Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition)
Responsible for feasibility through implementation studies using information technology. Projects included a variety of legal and information systems studies for both government and private sector clients. Responsibilities included database construction and development, developing training manuals and conducting seminars for all users. Consulting contracts for corporate due diligence reviews and mergers and acquisitions support.
Engagements also involved analysis of adult learning and development needs, scope training priorities, compensation analysis, design and delivery of company training programs, performance analysis and reviews, communications programs and strategies, assessment of developmental and leadership needs, performance benchmarking, coaching in achievement of individual and team performance objectives, train-the-trainer manuals, facilitator guidelines, participant guidelines, and evaluations.
Management and systems consulting, feasibility through implementation.
PhD Dissertation: Corporate Culture and Individuation