Suzanne Stein Portrait
Foresight Analyst & Educator

Suzanne facilitates the popular DesignJam workshop, Knowing Yourself and can be found facilitating BigTent events as well as mentoring.  

She is a foresight analyst, mentor, and educator. Working in the domain of new technologies, her practice domains span business strategy, organizational change, and experience design. Focusing on innovative approaches and methods, Suzanne is a leader in foresight and ethnographic techniques, and is always on the prowl for mechanisms of positive change. She also works with the CFC Media Lab where she holds a faculty post.

Location: 
Toronto
Organizations: 

DesignJam LP : Knowing Yourself With Suzanne Stein

What you bring to the table as an individual is really important. Knowing yourself allows you to act with confidence, to be a high-contributing member to your team, your workplace & to society. This workshop takes advantage of contemporary ideas & theories about leadership & organizational behavior. Through short sprints of lecture, personal assessment quizzes & reflection, we identify & examine each participant's individual style of creativity, communication, & management.

Participants gain greater understanding of their own:

Dysfunctional Teams

Discussing Patrick Lencioni's thoughts on the root causes of politics and dysfunction on the teams where you work, and the keys to overcoming them.

Johari Window

Created by psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955 the Johari window is a technique used to help people better understand their relationship with themselves and others.

Forming

The first phase of the Tuckman model, forming is where people on a team are establishing the self. 

Storming

The second phase of the Tuckman model. The storming is where people on a team start to push against the boundaries established in the forming stage. 

The Tuckman Model

What makes for a high performance team and all the stages that they go through?

DesignJam "TrafficJam" is an all-day innovation jamboree – a curated open space guiding more than a hundred design leaders & design learners, sharing ideas, tools & perspectives, to better understand & address a complex problem. Nicknamed "TrafficJam," DesignJam Toronto gathers young leaders, mentors, teams and aspiring entrepreneurs to conceive innovative user experiences and activate ideas to improve mobility in the Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area.

Design Jam 
 

The theme: “TrafficJam”: How can we improve mobility in our region?

Finding & meeting challenges & opportunities for improving traffic & transit in the Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area (GTHA) through design thinking, innovation & entrepreneurship.

 

How can we improve mobility in our region?


Facilitators & Mentors

Our spotlight is slated to feature great people including:

  • Adam Lawrence, service innovation director & co-initiator of Global Sustainability Jam, GovJam & Service Jam, the world's biggest service design event
  • Jennifer Leonard, founder of Brand New Ways, IDEO alumna, co-author of Massive Change
  • Peter Stoyko, Industry Canada service designer whose work visually unpacks urban mobility
  • Matti Siemiatycki, U of T expert in transportation policy, infrastructure, and planning
  • Roger Keil, York University research chair whose work illuminates global suburbanization
     

Workshop choices include

Creating
Better Futures

Strategic foresight

Mapping Mobility
Visual thinking & visual production

Making Systems Human-Centred
Service design thinking

Designing Flourishing Business
Sustainable business architecture

 

Schedule

9–10:30 am  Welcome, Orientation, Lightning Talks
10:30–12 am Morning Workshops
12–1:30 pm Food, fuel, music
1:30–3 pm Afternoon Workshops
3:30–4:15 pm   Workshop Reports & design critique
4:15–5pm Expert feedback & panel

 


For more information please contact: designjam@ocadu.ca

 

Ontario Centres of Excellence logo   Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs logoMaRS logo

 

Organized by Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) as part of OCAD University's Campus Linked Accelerator (CLA), DesignJam has support from OCE and ONE in partnership with MaRS and OCADU's Imagination Catalyst. We draw from methods and insights developed in OCADU's Strategic Foresight & Innovation (SFI) community, a unique graduate program creating new kind of designer: a strategist who sees the world from a human perspective and re-thinks what is possible; an innovator who imagines, plans and develops a better world.

What you bring to the table as an individual is really important. Knowing yourself allows you to act with confidence, to be a high-contributing member to your team, your workplace and to society.  

This workshop takes advantage of contemporary theories and ideas about leadership and organizational behavior. Through short sprints of lecture, personal assessment quizzes and reflection, you’ll identify and examine your own individual style of creativity, communication, and management.

Participants will have greater understanding of their own:

  • Personal, creative, communication and negotiation styles
  • Contemporary leadership qualities and team impacts
  • High-performance team processes and management


Each participant should leave with heightened self-awareness of his or her own team contributions, together with tools for further team management and leadership development.

 


About the Facilitator


Stuart Candy portraitSuzanne Stein (@Suzzle) is a foresight analyst, mentor, and educator. Working in the domain of new technologies, her practice domains span business strategy, organizational change, and experience design. Focusing on innovative approaches and methods, Suzanne is a leader in foresight and ethnographic techniques, and is always on the prowl for  mechanisms of positive change. She also works with the CFC Media Lab where she holds a faculty post.

Facilitators

What you bring to the table as an individual is really important. Knowing yourself allows you to act with confidence, to be a high-contributing member to your team, your workplace and to society.  

This workshop takes advantage of contemporary theories and ideas about leadership and organizational behavior. Through short sprints of lecture, personal assessment quizzes and reflection, you’ll identify and examine your own individual style of creativity, communication, and management.

Participants will have greater understanding of their own:

  • Personal, creative, communication and negotiation styles
  • Contemporary leadership qualities and team impacts
  • High-performance team processes and management


Each participant should leave with heightened self-awareness of his or her own team contributions, together with tools for further team management and leadership development.

Critique with Suzanne Stein


About the Facilitator

 


Stuart Candy portraitSuzanne Stein (@Suzzle) is a foresight analyst, mentor, and educator. Working in the domain of new technologies, her practice domains span business strategy, organizational change, and experience design. Focusing on innovative approaches and methods, Suzanne is a leader in foresight and ethnographic techniques, and is always on the prowl for  mechanisms of positive change. She also works with the CFC Media Lab where she holds a faculty post.

 

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