About Today's Show

While previous episodes were in-studio conversations with faculty, this episode takes us out of the studio, and to a 3rd year student event that demonstrates the impact a dedicated team of Seneca faculty can have in bringing together industry, students, and family, to discover what SenecaProud is truly all about.

In this episode we...

1.  Attend the Fashion Business Management Program's capstone event, known as Fashion Industry and Education Leadership Development (FIELD).

2.  Meet Professor Michel Côté, who discusses the incredible achievement of the 3rd Year Fashion Business Management students who are competing and presenting at the event.

3. Meet members of brand sponsor RW & Co.'s senior leadership team, and discover insights into the future of fashion retail.

4.  Meet some of the family of the 3rd Year Presenters, some of whom drove hours to attend the event.

5.  And of course, so much more....

About The FIELD Event

FIELD (Fashion Industry and Education Leadership Development) is an event in which teams of 3rd year Fashion Business Management students present a solution to a project brief that is provided by a client sponsor.  These 10 minute presentations are the end result of about 1 year’s work in product development, marketing, and go to market strategy.   This year's event was co-ordinated by a former guest on this show, Professor Lorrisa Dilay, and sponsored by brand partner RW & Co.

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Pat Perdue

About Today's Show

Robert Waite is a professor at Seneca College in the school’s graduate certificate program. Subjects he teaches include Advanced Presentation Skills; Writing for Public Relations Professionals; Writing for Government Relations Professionals; Media Relations; International Public Relations; and Investor Relations.

In this episode we discuss...

1.  Key skills necessary to be successful in PR today.

2.  What sets Seneca College apart from universities

3.  Some of the more interesting moments in Professor Waite's 30+ year career as one of North America's leading authorities on Public Relations and Corporate Communications

4.  So much more...

About Today's Guest, Professor Robert Waite

Robert Waite is one of North America’s foremost experts in the field of marketing, executive communications, cultural transformation and stakeholder relations. Mr. Waite is Managing Director of Waite + Co., a firm specializing in Board and CEO-level communications strategy and advice. With offices in Toronto, Ottawa and Boston, Waite + Co. draws on its founder’s 30+ years of experience working with six corporate CEO’s; two distinguished United States Senators; and as a member of the Executive Branch of the United States.

He has led and transformed communications, government relations, marketing and investor relations functions at companies as diverse as IBM, Ford, CAE (that’s an Aviation Electronics Company that has diversified into other simulation technologies), CIBC and Canada Post.

Click HERE to find his company Waite + Co.

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#SenecaProud Podcast is now available on iTunes, which means it's available pretty much wherever you get your podcasts. 

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Pat Perdue

About Today's Show

Professor Sumit Bhatia is not only an industry leader in digital transformation, gamification, and emerging technologies, he is also the program coordinator and professor for the Interactive Media Design and the Game Art and Animation Programs at Seneca College. 

And he's our guest in today's show.

In this episode we discuss...

1.  The specifics of the Interactive Media Design, and the Game Art and Animation Programs.

2.  The gratification that comes from transforming passion for art and creation into a rewarding career.

3.  The diverse, and ever growing career opportunities, that exist for digital artists, storytellers, and designers.

4.  A lot more....

About Today's Guest, Professor Sumit Bhatia

In addition to his work at Seneca College, Professor Bhatia is a business, creative and digital strategist whose work has focused on helping organizations embrace technology, transform digitally, establish their digital narrative and tell stories using emerging technologies. He has worked with fortune 500 companies, large academic institutions, and complex start-ups.  His current research is focused in the fields of AI & Gamification, Big Data Governance and Immersive Environments(AR/VR/MR)

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About Today's Show

Professor Lorrisa Dilay is a highly accomplished professional in the world of Canadian fashion management.  She's also a professor at Seneca College, and our guest on today's show

In this episode we discuss...

1.  How YOU can get a 20% discount at the Fashion Boutique and Seneca College (Hint:  Mention this show!)

2.  The really innovative Seneca Boutique program, which allows students to run their own apparel boutique end-to-end.

3.  The 3rd year Capstone Program, and how that prepares students for a career in fashion by showcasing their work in front of industry professionals.

4.  A lot more....

About Today's Guest, Professor Lorrisa Dilay

Professor Dilay teaches various courses in the Fashion Business and Fashion Business Management programs at Seneca.  Before joining Seneca full-time, the brands she’s worked with are a who’s who of iconic Canadian and international brands:  

Northern Reflections, Bata Canada (Athletes World and Bata Shoes), Bluenotes, The Bay, cleo, Walmart, TJX Canada and Town Shoes Ltd. And that’s just a few…

Positions she's held include Buyer, Brand Manager, Assistant General Merchandise Manager, Team Leader, Team Leader of Planning and Allocation, Product Development Manager, Director of Planning.

Professor Dilay has led the design and development of Women’s apparel and footwear collections, she’s launched new brands into Canada, she’s led corporate-wide strategic market share growth initiatives, and she’s designed and implemented new merchandising processes

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#SenecaProud Podcast is now available on iTunes, which means it's available pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.  Here's the link.  https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/senecaproud/id1448933774. 

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About Today's Show

Martin Waxman is professor at the Seneca Public Relations and Corporate Communications program at the Seneca School of Media.  Martin teaches PR, Social Media and Journalism.

In this episode we discuss...

1.  The specifics of the Public Relations and Corporate Communications Program at Seneca College.

2. How social media is evolving and changing, and potentially re-tracing the origins of PR back to the 1920's.

3. The curious relationship between PR and Sigmund Freud.

About Today's Guest, Professor Martin Waxman

In addition to his role as professor at the Public Relations and Corporate Communications program at the Seneca School of Media, Martin teaches PR, Social Media and Journalism,  Martin also has online courses on Linda.com and LInkedin Learning.  He also runs his own Media firm, Martin Waxman Communications, and he’s got his own podcast, Inside PR.

You can reach Martin Waxman on Twitter @MartinWaxman  

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#SenecaProud Podcast is now available on iTunes, which means it's available pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.  Here's the link.  https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/senecaproud/id1448933774. 

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SHOW NOTES

One of the big challenges in Customer Experience is managing all of the changing initiatives that are simply a way of life among competitive companies today. 

There is huge pressure at all levels of just about every organization to innovate.  Do something new. The pressure to constantly innovate has become business as usual. 

With every department on the hook to be innovative, they end up tripping over each other and negatively impact the customer experience in unforeseen ways.  

Our Guest, Bruce Simpson

Our guest today, Bruce Simpson, knows a lot about helping companies manage the change that comes from a culture of constant innovation.  As partner and co-founder of SwitchGear Consulting, Bruce has spent the past 15 years as a trusted co-pilot for BIG change, helping leaders who are not only trying to change culture and elevate performance but have realized they need a make-over on how they work and even how their people think.

In This Episode We Discuss:

a) How to recognize when our organizations focus too heavily on innovation at the expense of creating lasting change.

b) How leaders at every level of the organization can get their teams “unstuck,” and begin to actually move the company forward and help it to genuinely evolve.

c)  What are the crucial tasks senior leaders must do to reduce “adoption paralysis” and ensure their company truly remains innovating and customer-focused

d)  Lots lots more….

About our Guest – Bruce Simpson

Since helping build his first Call Centre in 1989, Bruce Simpson has been living inside Sales + Service Teams for 30 years. Bruce’s first 10,000 hours came as an in-house Operator in Healthcare and Telcom (during the big disruption of long-distance competition). His second 10,000 hours came as the COO and Co-Founder of a 3rdParty Outsourcer (NDR / ClientLogic / Sitel) executing the Customer Experience on behalf of other companies. For the last past 15 years Bruce has become a trusted co-pilot for BIG change, helping leaders who are not only trying to change culture and elevate performance but have realized they need a make-over on how they work and even how their people think.

Contact Information for Bruce Simpson and SwitchGear

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Click here to reach Bruce on LinkedIn

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About Today's Show

Professor Camie Condon is the program co-ordinator, as well as professor, in the Crime and Intelligence Analysis Degree Program.  In this episode we discuss...

1.  How analysts use social media to identify potential terrorist threats.

2. How the Seneca College Crime and Intelligence Analysis program prepares students for careers both in law enforcement, as well as the private sector.

3. How international terrorists were identified and ultimately captured with the help of Camie's company, iBrabo.

About Today's Guest, Professor Camie Condon

Dr. Camie Condon is the  academic coordinator as well as professor for the newly launched Crime and Intelligence Analysis Degree program taught out of Seneca College’s King Campus.  (teacher as well?).  

A former crime analyst with the Halton Regional Police Service, Professor Condon received her B.A in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University and her M.Sc. and Ph.D from the University of Liverpool, (UK) .  As a part of Camie’s Ph.D research she examined police tactical decision making during armed confrontations.

Camie is also a long time member/researcher of iBrabo, a Canadian based open source intelligence research group. Camie’s role with iBrabo includes assisting in collaborative research in the areas of conflict monitoring, extremist use of social media intelligence (SOCMINT), and identifying persons at risk for recruitment to violent extremism. So in other words, when Dr. Condon isn’t in the classroom teaching about Intelligence Analysis, she’s out there catching real-life bad-guys.  And the skills she applies to catch those bad guys are the same skills they cover in this program.

She’s joined us here in the Sandbox studio at Newnham

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About Today's Show

Seneca College President David Agnew invited us into his office to talk about some exciting changes and developments at Seneca College.  In this episode, President Agnew discusses,

1.  The new centre for Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the Main Campus, and Magna Hall, at King Campus.  

2. The importance of inter-disciplinary learning, and an emphasis on "crossing boundaries" between programs to meet today's employment needs.

President Agnew also talks about his career, starting out as a sports reporter in high school; and provides his key advice he gives to people to advance their career.

About Today's Guest, President David Agnew

With extensive experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors, David Agnew became the fifth president of Seneca in July 2009.

Under his leadership, Seneca has experienced record growth in enrolment and expanded its offerings in both undergraduate and graduate programs. One of the largest colleges in Canada, Seneca is growing its applied research, broadening international and corporate partnerships, investing in capital expansion and adopting an innovative academic direction to increase experiential, cross-disciplinary and flexible learning opportunities.

Mr. Agnew was Secretary to the Cabinet and head of the public service in the Government of Ontario, Canada from 1992 to 1995 after serving as Principal Secretary to the Premier. In 1995, he led the Public-Private Partnerships Project and was seconded to Massey College at the University of Toronto where he was a Senior Resident.

 He was the President and CEO of UNICEF Canada, the first head of the organization recruited from outside the international development sector. As Principal for the consulting firm Digital 4Sight, he led the firm’s global research initiative on Governance in the Digital Economy, an exploration of the impact of technology on government and democracy. In the co-operative sector, he was the Executive Vice-President and Corporate Secretary for the Credit Union Central of Ontario. Mr. Agnew was the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments, the national dispute resolution service for consumers and small businesses.

 Mr. Agnew’s working life started in high school as a newspaper reporter in Toronto and he continued his journalism career in St. John’s, Ottawa and Edmonton. He was the gold medallist when he graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a B.A. in political science. Following his studies, he was a Parliamentary Intern at the House of Commons of Canada.

In 2012, Mr. Agnew received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his service to the community.

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Pat Perdue

About Today's Show

Professor Laura Cavanagh shares her insights into what makes the very popular Behavioural Sciences Diploma Program so successful.  

1.  Who this program is for

2. Surprising Challenges

3. Why it can be life-changing for some students

About Today's Guest, Professor Laura Cavanagh

In addition to being a mom, and a clinician, and a published author, Laura Cavanagh is professor of Psychology and Behavioural Science and Seneca College, and is also the academic coordinator of the Behavioural Sciences Diploma program.  She joined us in the Sandbox Studio to hang out and talk about why her program is so freaking awesome!

Thank you Sandbox Studios @ Seneca

Shoutout to Julio and everyone at The Sandbox for all your help in making this podcast series possible.  If you’re a student at Seneca and you haven’t checked out the Sandbox, absolutely do it.  It’s open to all Seneca students and faculty, and you can do all kinds of media related things there from from video and photography, to digital music, to recording a podcast.

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#SenecaProud Podcast is now available on iTunes, which means it's available pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.  Here's the link.  https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/senecaproud/id1448933774.  While you're there, please subscribe, give us a rating, and leave a comment.  It really helps get our podcast found.

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Pat

My guest, Brian Bell, is professor of project management in the Seneca School of Business,

Our conversation focuses on a new program at Seneca he’s the co-ordinator of – Business Analytics.  That course kicks off in January of 2019.

Brian and I also touch on the amazing impact our international students have on our community here at Seneca. 

And finally, we talk about Brian’s recent appointment as Chair of the School of Leadership and Human Resources – which is kind of a big deal!  So I asked Brian what it means to be a professor at Seneca. 

What is it that sets Seneca professors apart from faculty at other colleges or universities. 

I thought his answer was really interesting.

Thanks for listening.  You'll love this episode!