An architect, an innovation expert and an executive walk into an MBA class

What can organizational innovators learn from architects? 

Listen in live to this conversation between an architect, an innovation expert, and executive in one of our MBA classes. 

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It has been almost 20 years since the book Managing as Designing exhorted managers seeking to innovate to learn from architects. 

Since then, design thinking — an approach to innovation that highlights the centring of human values, learning through trial and error, and actively exercising imagination — has become embedded in management practice. 

Internationally renowned architect, Michael Green, will discuss the design process used in his award-winning firm, which has completed projects all over the world. He will highlight visual methods and processes to open up to new possibilities, and then decide which directions to further explore.

You will leave this conversation with new insights into how organizational leaders might innovate. 

The architect

Michael Green, founder of MGA | Michael Green Architects, is an award-winning architect, speaker, and author known internationally for using innovation and design to create meaningful, and more sustainable built environments that benefit both people and planet. A leader in wood and bio-based innovation and construction, he has completed some of the most significant timber buildings in the world, serves as a government policy advisor on mass timber, and writes, publishes, and lectures about new building technology, including his most recent TED talk - The natural building blocks of sustainable architecture. Find them on Instagram and LinkedIn.

The innovation expert

David Dunne is the author of Design Thinking at Work, which explores the ways in which innovative organizations can tackle their wicked problems. He is a leader in bringing concepts from the world of architecture and design and applying them to the world of business. He is also a professor at the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business, with many years experience as a marketing and advertising executive. 

The executive

Teri McEachern is a Certified Management Consultant with Cascadian Consulting Group Inc. specializing in strategy, organizational change and people, with over 20 years consulting and executive experience in banking and financial services.  She served as vice president of corporate development & human resources at MasterCard International (Europe).