Entrepreneurial Feminist Forum

Sat, Nov 11, 2017
9am – 6pm
OCAD University
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1

Join us as we share best practices & new ideas, connect a growing community of people with passion for advancing gender equity through the power of enterprise, and those who simply want to connect feminist values to how they run their business.

This will be a unique learning opportunity for entrepreneurs, startup professionals, business coaches (and feminists of all genders) that should not be missed! 

View the agenda and register here
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Speakers include: 
Dr. Dori Tunstall, Dean of Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design University. In Un-Designing Gender Inequality: Innovation through the Seven Principles of Design Anthropology, Dori will share her seven principles of Design Anthropology and its relationship to the Mandala of Cultures-Based Innovation developed by a global community of anthropologists, designers, strategists, and Indigenous activists/scholars. Dori will outline how these frameworks can be used to ethically approach the understanding of cultures, the design process, and the experience of innovation for Indigenous, migrant, and racialized communities so that innovation is not seen as Colonialism 2.0. Dori activates the frameworks by showing feminist/womanist projects that align with them.

Dr. Barbara Orser, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa and co-author of Feminine Capital. Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs. Dr. Orser will spotlight how Canadians are employing feminist values within their business practices. In doing so, entrepreneurs are creating new brands, building new business models and challenging public policies. 

C. V. Harquail, PhD, Feminists at Work & Stevens Institute of Technology. In “Feminism Foundations: Key Concepts and Points of Unity,” CV will help us understand of concepts and values that connect different perspectives on feminism. We’ll consider why feminism is more than “equality” between “men” and “women”, and why it embraces anti-racism, anti-classism, and other movements for positive social change. With a lightning quick introduction to key concepts like gendering, essentialism, patriarchy, kyriarchy, standpoints, and intersectionality, we’ll gain a working language for new conversations. Once we distinguish between critical and constructive feminism, we’ll co-develop values that offer points of unity across our different paths towards a feminist future. The goal of this session is not to provide “the” definition of feminism, but to bring us to shared starting points so that we can connect our work.

Plus the following workshops: 

• Create Your Feminist Business Model Canvas - C.V. Harquail, Ph.D., Co-Founder Feminists at Work & Stevens Institute of Technology
• Beneath the Surface: The Challenges of Implementing a  New Model - Vicki Saunders, Founder, SheEO, in conversation with Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi, Activator, TedX speaker, Founder & President of Divity Group and Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University
• Your One True Marketing Message - Kelly Diels, writer and feminist marketing consultant who draws upon the marketing strategies of movements and revolutionaries
• Newcomer Entrepreneurs, Culture, & Commerce - Rania Younes, Founder of WelcomeHomeTO
• Play As a Creative Force - Suzanne Stein, Associate Professor, Strategic Foresight & Innovation / Digital Futures Director, Super Ordinary Lab at OCAD U and Emma Westecott, Associate Professor, Game Design, OCAD U
• Embodied Strength: Using the Life Force in Ferocity - Jane Clapp, Re-embodiment Coach & Trauma Recovery Specialist
• Find Your Unique (Co-)Leadership Style - Céline Peterson,Founder of Social Legacy, and Holly Nimmons, Founder of Opis 
• Team Practices for Getting in the Game of Gender-Lens Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, & Investing - Tuti Scott, Founder of Imagine Philanthropy, coach to high-achieving leaders
• A Feminist/Womanist Mandala of Cultures-Based Innovation - Dr. Dori Tunstall, Dean of Design at OCAD U
• Uses of the Erotic in Entrepreneurship: Moving from Problems to Solutions - Natalie Wood, Media and Visual Artist, Co-Founder, Social Innovation Hub at George Brown College
• Intuitive Strategic Planning - Anna Dewar Gully, Founder & Chief Strategist, WomenStrategy

More details to be announced. This is just a snapshot of the EFF community!

Sponsored by
City of Toronto & OCAD University. 

Co-Presented by 
LiisBeth Media
Feminists at Work
Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab)

Host Committee members
include Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi, Emily Antflick of Shecosystem, Christina Evans, and more. To learn more, visit feministforums.com

EFF Team:
Lex Schroeder, Petra Kassun-Mutch, CV Harquail, Patrick Robinson

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As our world becomes increasingly more interconnected and the frequency of change continues to accelerate, what roles can designers play in this evolving cultural context? How can we shift the perspective of our craft and practice to make broad and meaningful impact with our work? In this talk, IDEO's Henry Cheung will explore the different trajectories of design, design thinking, and the interface between design and other professions.

About the Speaker:
Henry Hong-Yiu Cheung is currently jamming with like-minded colleagues in his role as Practice Lead for Systems at Scale at IDEO’s Chicago office. Henry is a designer by practice and an adventurer at heart. His core proficiency is in using design thinking to map out unseen opportunities and emerging trends in order to develop the desired outcomes. He believes the richness of solutions evolves from a combination of an honest and open collaborative process and rigorous execution. Always the curious collaborator in search of challenging ways of thinking, Henry has worked with Bruce Mau Design, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and Microsoft Corp.

How can we use design to challenge the prevailing wisdom of business education? As Dean of the Rotman School of Management at The University of Toronto, Roger Martin has led a controversial & exciting campaign to do just that. He has famously asserted that “Business people don’t need to understand designers better: they need to be designers.” This is a foundational idea in an emerging area in the theory and practice of business called Design Thinking. In his talk Roger will speak about his recent book, The Design of Business, and why he believes so strongly that design is essential to competitive advantage.

About the Speaker: 
Roger Martin has served as Dean of the Rotman School of Management since 1998. He is advisor to the CEOs of several major corporations, has published several books on business strategy, and writes for BusinessWeek.com’s Innovation and Design Channel, Washington Post’s On Leadership blog and Financial Times’ Judgment Call column. Roger Martin has been named one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers by The Times of London and one of the world’s 10 most influential business professors by Business Week. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.

Develop your startup mindset.
Learn to tackle real-world problems.
Co-create with design thinkers & makers.

DesignJam Toronto is our "big tent" jamboree, an all-day gathering of 120 design leaders & learners, sharing ideas & tools while working to understand and reframe a complex problem. On Saturday March 28 at MaRS in downtown Toronto, this event centres on the massive challenges and opportunities for traffic and transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Nicknamed "TrafficJam," the event enables aspiring entrepreneurs, mentors and teams to conceive and develop creative perspectives and innovative actions.

DesignJam Lightning Talk: The New City is Coming with Peter Stoyko.

DesignJam Lightning Talk: Traffic & Transit with Jen Leonard.

DesignJam Lightning Talk: Switching Tracks with Drs. Roger Keil and Sean Hertel.

DesignJam Lightning Talk: Finding Joy in Pubic Transit with Dr. Matti Siemitaycki.

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— OCAD sLab (@ocadslab) March 25, 2015

Selected projects and speakers from SFI will be represented at the upcoming Relating Systems Thinking to Design Symposium in Oslo, Norway, October 2014. We wanted to provide an opportunity for the students accepted in the symposium to preview their presentations with SFI, to hone their 20 minute talks and get feedback before the Oct 15-17 event.

 
Karen Oikonen - Human-Centering a Mental Health Service System
Presenting the Health & Wellness Centre service design in a human-system context with Adam Starkman and Peter Jones
 
Ksenia Benifand - Reimagining the Future: The Biomimetic Economy
Presenting their Gigamap-based systemic design project, with Ryan Church and Nihal Ahmed
 
Josina Vink - Now and Then: Co-Designing Systems Smart Enough for the Future
Presenting on a CAMH case study on people-powered adaptive social systems, with Matthew Hollingshead
 
Peter Jones will open the discussion with a preview of the Symposium. With Peter leaving this week to engage with Oslo’s HIOA university (sister to AHO) on Systemics in Design Literacy, and Ryan Church already in Europe, we will attempt a mixed presence presentation, with Peter and Ryan joining from afar.