Dear: |
Drs. Elad Granot and Al Miciak |
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From: |
Dr. Alex Bruton |
cc.: |
Dr. Doan Winkel and Mr. Jeff Couillard |
Re: Creating value for JCU
Thank you in advance for your time. We look forward to our meeting on Thursday to discuss the Cleveland Transformation School (t.school) at JCU and how we can together create as much value as possible for the Muldoon Center for Entrepreneurship, for the Boler College of Business, and for John Carroll University – and for your community members. To get us started, I’m sharing below a proposed agenda, some contextual documents, and a little about the core team members.
For our meeting on Thursday June 9, 2022
Proposed agenda
Proposed agenda
- Doan to introduce project and team members
- Why the t.school approach?
- What is it and who is it for?
- Questions and discussion
- Actions and next steps
Key documents
Key documents
- Draft teaser for the August launch event
- Draft conceptual brochure for the experience
- Introductory podcast episode:
In this episode of the t.school’s podcast, Alex Bruton and Jeff Couillard talk about the upcoming experience, and how today’s opportunities for growth need to deliver both challenge and support + a real team (vs. a group, class or cohort) + what they call real-life transformation.
Meet the core team at the Cleveland t.school at JCU
Dr. Alex
Bruton
Co-founder
+ Director
of Innovation
and Experience
Dr. Alex Bruton has worked with and spoken to thousands of learners and hundreds of corporate leaders and educators from around the world – in places including Mexico, Seattle, San Diego, New York, and Waterloo, and with organizations such as Berkeley, Tec de Monterrey, and Google.
He was founder and faculty director of western Canada’s first innovation design school. He’s been a tenured professor in both a business school and an engineering school, most recently in the role of Teaching Professor which is equivalent to full professor on the teaching and pedagogy stream.
He has served at top organizations and institutions in roles such as Learning Experience Catalyst, International Educator-in-Residence, and Vice President of Pedagogy and Learning. Today he is also Director of Innovation and Learning at The Innographer and CTO at Educators Pro.
For his work in innovation and learning design, he’s been named Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year in Canada, Top 40 Under 40, and Peak Scholar, and he has received many other awards for excellence in teaching, facilitation, and the design of extraordinary learning experiences.
Mr. Jeff
Couillard
Co-founder
+ Director
of Learning and
Development
Outside of the t.school, Jeff Couillard is Co-CEO and Director of Learning and Development at The Ally Co. , a leading Canadian company in the areas of innovation and leadership development.
He has more than twenty years of experience leading transformational change efforts, at the individual, team and organizational levels.
He has a rare combination of breadth and depth as a facilitator, working with clients as diverse as youth and families struggling with addiction and mental health, to shifting organizational practice in the education, health care and social services sectors, to helping teams of entrepreneurs grow billion dollar businesses and enterprise clients navigate the ups and downs of the pandemic and ‘great reset’.
He and the team at The Ally Co. are ‘human-centred, systems-conscious’ practitioners – coaches, strategists and facilitators who work from the perspective that humans are the center of meaningful change, and that the broader system has to be accounted for in the intentional design of truly transformational experiences.
Dr. Doan
Winkel
Sponsor + Lead
Academic Advisor to
the Cleveland
t.school at JCU
Dr. Doan Winkel is an internationally-recognized entrepreneurship educator and program builder.
He leads entrepreneurship education at John Carroll University where he is the Endowed Entrepreneurship Chair and Founding Director of the Donnelly School Leadership and Social Innovation, and Director of the Muldoon Center for Entrepreneurship.
He is a long-time director and board member at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) – the largest membership organization in the world focused on advancing the art of entrepreneurship education through bold teaching, scholarship, and practice – where today he is Senior Advisor for Pedagogical Innovation.
He’s also been a champion and co-founder of many projects that are changing the world, such as TEDx Normal, TeachingEntrepreneurship.org, Legacy Out Loud, and the JCUNeighborhoodProject.com
