Breannen Allison founded Thimbleberry Designs, a one-of-a-kind beaded fashionwear business. She talks about how coming to know her Cree & Métis heritage led to Thimbleberry & how art, family, culture, sustainability & truth & reconciliation come together 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.

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. 7 Day Creative Challenge below by Bridgepoint Effect - FREE to first 18 listeners with the code "crosspollination" May 17-31. Click "buy" & enter the code. https://www.collaborationtrainingonline.com/courses/being-creative-7-day-creativity-challenge-2

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 we can move forward & collaborate better even amid trying times. 7 Day Creative Challenge by Bridgepoint Effect - FREE to first 18 listeners with the code "crosspollination" May 17-31. Click "buy" & enter the code. https://www.collaborationtrainingonline.com/courses/being-creative-7-day-creativity-challenge-2

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 about his new book, Pirates in the Navy, intrapreneurship & what companies & innovators need to know generally & in pandemic times to survive & stay viable.

Entrepreneur Connie Stacey chats on the value of unconventional perspectives, growing her business, Growing Greener Innovations (Grengine) & a 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, 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 best-seller, "The Gig Economy". She chats on becoming an independent worker with a portfolio career when traditional careers aren't traditional anymore.

What to do about work when the world is uncertain? Dr. Nayla Bahri talks work & careers in times of uncertainty & regular circumstances & what we can do. She chats on her research on good job outcomes following the 2008 financial crisis & what that can tell us now.

How to creatively reinvent careers? Carl, Nathalie & Clark worked in Alberta's oil & gas sector. Now they do completely different work. They chat critical ingredients of successful reinventions, lessons & how not to get stuck.

How to reinvent a careers from an industry in transition? Carl, Nathalie & Clark all worked in Alberta’s oil & gas industry. Now their jobs are completely different. 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.

Looking to inspire big adventures? Explorer Mario Rigby chats on realising big dreams. He 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 missions & how to make it work.

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 & talks about its work helping organizations innovate products & services through sci-fi prototyping. Storytelling, science, tech & innovation meet in this episode.