About the founder/editor
Over the course of my career, I have worked as a strategist, advisor, consultant, coach, educator, researcher, artist, writer, art gallery owner, and more. My main focus for the past several years has been the launch of a new ’software plus services’ business venture named Nuvisto. I also maintain an active business consulting practice, and devote time and energy to helping several other folks with launching and growing their startups.
In my professional consulting practice, I’ve played a key role in literally hundreds of initiatives over the past three decades with more than 100 businesses, agencies, and government organizations around the world. While most of my business clients are Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, I also dedicate myself to working with information and media-related entrepreneurial and start-up ventures. You can read more about my professional life on my personal website.
I’ve studied media, culture, and human/computer interaction at the University of Toronto, law at Carleton University in Ottawa, information sciences, finance, and economics at Algonquin College in Ottawa, and fine arts at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. I’m also a research fellow at the Institute for Studies in Coherence and Emergence in Florida, where I concentrate on applications of advanced theoretical research in ‘human sense- and meaning-making’ to business and organizational purposes.
I currently teach software entrepreneurship in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto, and have been a guest lecturer on the subjects of creativity, entrepreneurship, and ‘collective intelligence’ at Sheridan College, the McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology, and numerous academic and business conferences in Canada, Europe, and the United States.
Since the early 1990’s, I’ve been very active on the Toronto arts scene. For several years now, I’ve been leading a series of workshops at C1 ArtSpace that teach business and communications skills to artists, artisans, and other creative professionals. Recently, I was interviewed by Laura Hollick on CFMU radio about overcoming the challenges involved in becoming a career artist. You can listen to the interview at www.theartguy.ca.
To feed my own inner need to be creative, I make at least one serious artwork every year to be included in a recognized public exhibition. Over the past two years, I’ve managed to contribute three paintings each year – several of which sold! – to AWOL Gallery’s Square Foot Show. In 2007 I collaborated with Bill Gilliam on three new-media artworks that showed at the Canadian Music Center as part of Scotiabank’s Nuit Blanche here in Toronto on September 29 & 30. I’m told they were well received.