Unknown Origins

Alicia Samuel is the Senior Vice President of Information Technology at Holt Renfrew, considered Canada's fashion and lifestyle retailer. 

Alicia has over 25 years of experience in technology leadership and innovation expertise by connecting people, processes, and technologies to deliver outcomes that support the goals of businesses at several Canadian Retailers and during her time in technology consulting, evangelism, and business development at Microsoft and IBM.

Creativity Without Frontiers available at all relevant book retailers

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Support the show

Attitude. Imagination. Execution. 
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com

A protest song about the most pressing problems and irritants of everyday life.

Words and Voice by Roy Sharples and Gary Burt

Music composed and performed by Iain Mutch

Read the Artwork, Lyrics and Credits

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Rand Fishkin is co-founder and CEO of audience research software startup, SparkToro. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos, speaking, and his books. Rand is the Author of Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World, co-contributed to two books: Art of SEO and Inbound Marketing & SEO.

Creativity Without Frontiers available at all relevant book retailers

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Support the show

Attitude. Imagination. Execution. 
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com

Sam Ladner is a sociologist who helps teams innovate, design, and learn. She is the author of Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in The Private Sector and Mixed Methods: A Short Guide to Applied Mixed Methods Research. Sam has worked on many advanced software projects, including Alexa, the Echo Look, Windows 10, Microsoft Office 2016, Cortana, and HoloLens. She currently works at Workday, an enterprise software company, as a Senior Principal Researcher studying the future of work. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from York University in Toronto.

Creativity Without Frontiers available at all relevant book retailers

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Support the show

Attitude. Imagination. Execution. 
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com

Darren Lee Phillipson is a multi-award-winning Consumer Products, Licensing, and Entertainment innovator and owner of design_lead_play_, spending the last 25 years leading some of the world's most influential toy and licensing companies: Disney, Lucasfilm, Dreamworks, Fisher-Price, and Alpha Group. Creating and bringing to fruition some of the most iconic properties, including Star Wars, Toy Story, Cars, Dora the Explorer, Kung Fu Panda, and Sesame Street.
 
Creativity Without Frontiers available at all relevant book retailers

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Support the show

Attitude. Imagination. Execution. 
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com

Dan Roam is the author of five internationally bestselling books on business visualization and communication clarity, including; THE POP-UP PITCH, THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN, and DRAW TO WIN.

Dan is a creative director, author, painter, and model-builder. His purpose in life is to make complex things clear by drawing them and to help others do the same.

He has helped leaders at Google, Microsoft, Boeing, Gap, IBM, the US Navy, the United States Senate, and the White House solve complex problems with simple pictures. His whiteboard has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NPR. 

Before founding Digital Roam Inc, Dan served as Client Partner & Creative Director at Razorfish, Scient, The Interactive Bureau, Red Square Productions, The Moscow Times, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Dan graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz with degrees in Biology and Fine Art. He is a licensed pilot, avid runner, and landscape painter.

Creativity Without Frontiers available at all relevant book retailers

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Support the show

Attitude. Imagination. Execution. 
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com

Bill Burnett is Co-Author of the New York Times best-seller Designing Your Life, Co-Director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University. A designer, educator, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. He is also the Executive Director of the Design Program, where he manages the undergraduate and graduate degree-granting programs and advises 70 -100 students annually. Bill holds multiple mechanical and design patents and design awards for various products, including the first “slate” computer. In addition to his duties at Stanford, he is on the Board of VOZ (pronounced “VAWS – it means voice in Spanish), a socially responsible high fashion startup, and advises several Internet startup companies.

Creativity Without Frontiers available at all relevant book retailers

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Support the show

Attitude. Imagination. Execution. 
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com

Jeremy Till is an architect, educator, and writer. As an architect, he worked with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects on their pioneering building, 9 Stock Orchard Street. As an educator, Till is Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Arts London. As a writer, Till's extensive work includes Flexible Housing, Architecture Depends, and Spatial Agency, all three of which won the RIBA President's Award for Research. He curated the UK Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale and the 2013 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Jeremy provides his perspective on climate and creative practice. 

Creativity Without Frontiers available at all relevant book retailers

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Support the show

Attitude. Imagination. Execution. 
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com

The digital revolution has disrupted how content is created, distributed, and consumed by democratizing information. Social media has had an omnipresent impact on people. Social media, mobility, and the Internet dominate our daily lives, where people have an insatiable appetite to be engaged by and curiosity for authentic experiences and content. ​

But how can you cut through the noise and communicate with your audience by connecting with people when they're being besieged with content in an accurate, quality, and helpful way that your audience can trust and take action from?

Peter Winick is the founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage. For the past two decades, he has helped individuals and organizations build and grow revenue streams by designing and growing their thought leadership platforms and acting as a guide and advisor for increasing business-to-business sales of thought leadership products. Peter provides his perspective about helping though leaders build their ideas into businesses.  

Creativity Without Frontiers available at all relevant book retailers

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Professor Cameron Tonkinwise is an international expert in design studies and transition design and the Research Director of the Design Innovation Research Centre at UTS. Cameron provides a perspective on creativity and how to apply transition design and the creative process to solve pressing societal issues to navigate breakthrough solutions and change.

He writes and speaks extensively on the power of design to drive systems-level change to achieve more sustainable and equitable futures. Cameron has long advocated for Design Studies and their importance in ensuring the social responsibility of design professionals. 

More recently, Cameron has emerged as a leading voice in Transition Design due to his long-standing research and teaching around Sustainable Design. 

Learn more about how to create without frontiers by unleashing your creative power by getting the book: 

Creativity Without Frontiers available in print, digital, and audio at all relevant book retailers.

Stay in touch with Unknown Origins

Music by Iain Mutch 

Support the show

Attitude. Imagination. Execution. 
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com