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How to be a storytelling entrepreneur

How to be a storytelling entrepreneur

Paka Apparel founder Kris Cody has an incredible story to tell. He not only designed a breakthrough adventure coat using alpaca wool - but he also field-tested it himself by summiting a major mountain in Peru. Without knowing any more details, I hear that and I'm already sold

Find new business ideas, with social purpose.

Find new business ideas, with social purpose.

Mary Ellen Schaafsma is a social purpose expert. As the founder of Purpose Pathways Consulting and former Director of the Social Purpose Institute, she's helped dozens of businesses develop and implement a social purpose that's good for society and the organization. While most resources on social

Creating record growth at the California symphony

Creating record growth at the California symphony

As the new ED of the California Symphony, Aubrey Bergauer faced a brutal challenge - turn things around financially in less than two years, or major institutional supporters would pull their funding. She knew that tinkering with the music or marketing wouldn't fix things. So she decided to

A 'novel' approach to social innovation

A 'novel' approach to social innovation

Innovation storytelling isn't just limited to magazines like WIRED, blogs on Medium or TikTok videos. A powerful fictional story, like the one in the award-winning novel Five Little Indians will inform and inspire changes in the way we think and act. But telling the right story at the

It's just TV.

It's just TV.

In the mid-1990s, I had a huge career breakthrough that almost killed me. I'd sold my first documentary to CBC and was on a tight deadline to get it done. It was late January and we'd finished shooting everything except one final interview that had to

Finding peace, with General Roméo Dallaire

Finding peace, with General Roméo Dallaire

In 1996, I got the toughest gig of my career – make a film to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the Rwandan genocide for Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire. Though we could have focused on many things – like the failure of the UN to act, or the devastation of the Tutsi people

My teenage battle for equity

My teenage battle for equity

When I was 16, my best friend's Mom got me a job in the Sears sporting goods department (because that's how the world worked). For the most part, it was a dream – decent pay, fun co-workers, a store discount, and good bosses. But I ran into