MaRS Discovery District

She leads a Toronto-based agency working at the intersection of health, equity, and community, partnering with organizations like Unity Health, Black Health Alliance, and AMREF Health Africa.

Uh, founder of woman-led platform, she has partnered with PayPal and appeared at MaRS Discovery District.

So, lots to unpack and uncover.

Uh, without a, a further ado, let's dive in and welcome Alicia.

is a great story.

So in Toronto, there's a place called the Mars Center, which is an innovation center.

And if you've ever been there before, it's beautiful.

They have most of their events on the lower level.

Today, through Jagdeo Adventures, he advises organizations and leadership teams on strategy, foresight, innovation, and transformation.

He's also a professor of strategy development at OCAD University, an advisor to technology companies through Toronto's Mars Discovery District, an early stage investor, a board member of the Toronto Transit Commission, And I guess at some point this guy finds time to sleep.

Fenton's central argument is that organizations perform better when leaders remain radically curious, challenge inherited assumptions and have the courage to act on what they discover.

So how can curiosity help us build better careers and more innovative organizations? Well, let's find out as we have a conversation today.

I was, I was working for 21 toys.

I also ended up doing some work for Mars discovery district.

It's a big regional innovation center in Toronto.

Because our advisor at 21 Toys, who's also a really amazing musician and awesome drummer, he actually gave me an opportunity to come and teach some youth entrepreneurship.

I was wondering if the defense spending was on Kawhi Leonard.

Fredericton-based defense startup incubator Vimy Forge has a new partner in Toronto's Mars Discovery District.

The longstanding Canadian innovation hub will help Vimy Forge with its goal of showing startups how to get a foothold in the defense world.

Vimy Forge has 10 startups in its first cohort that are receiving mentoring and training, and it plans to open up its second cohort in January.

To book Jeffrey Hinton on the AI stage.

And just seeing the auditorium of Mars Discovery District just packed to hear him talk about advances in neural networks is also, when you think of where we're at today, 2017, very different message Jeffrey Hinton is speaking about right now.

And so that was like my kind of aha standout moment in 2017.

But it goes like across the years.

Okay, so we want to get right to the show.

Oh, we were going to say, too, we're going to be in Toronto next week, 24th, 25th at the Mars Center or Mars District, somewhere on Mars, I think we'll be.

But it's called the Mars District at the Money Show.

Myself and Brennan will be giving a two-hour presentation there, how to build a portfolio.