On the Edge of Health and Design

In this "cafe culture" inspired episode, your cohosts chat with Cameron Norman, an organizational and behavioural change expert. As the Principal and President of Cense Ltd., Cameron works with organizations looking for ways to adapt, grow, and learn from what they do and respond to a changing world. We explore Cameron's academic background in psychology and design, his work as an innovation consu...

In this month's episode, we dive into a young person's journey with an incurable blood cancer known to affect older individuals - Multiple Myeloma. Tanya Zigomanis was diagnosed at the age of 37. She is a young mother and patient advocate who leverages her law background and social network towards advancing myeloma research. She also applies her experiences to support other cancer patients and fam...

Did you know that Empathy can be a Superpower? In this month's podcast episode, we interview Morẹ́nikẹ́ Ẹniọlá Ọláòṣebìkan, a pharmaceutical manufacturing innovator, licensed pharmacist and pharmacy owner, who embraces Empathy in Drug Design. Morẹ́nikẹ́ s Deep Empathy for others forms a strong foundation for her ventures, making her an Innovation Superhero in medication design & delivery! List...

In this special episode, our SIC Health team interviews Sandra Viviana Murillo-Morales, arQ RunicoS. Viviana is an interdisciplinary visual artist practicing conscious ambidextrous drawing, the use of both hands while drawing. She identifies as a neurodivergent individual. Trained as an architect in Colombia, freehand drawing was always an essential communication tool in her professional practice...

Design's origins stem from creative practices like the arts, music and writing. In this episode, we explore creative writing practice by interviewing two coaches from Firefly Creative Writing. Firefly Creative Writing helps people reconnect to the pleasure and power of writing through workshops, coaching and snail mail, online and in-person. Writing coaches, Kim and Mary, share their personal jour...

In this month's episode, your cohosts interview Julie Gilbert, an independent consultant and coach at Julie Gilbert Consulting and founder of the Impact Institute. Julie has over 25 years of experience working with public sector and nonprofit organizations, including the Movember Foundation. Julie is a self-described "boundary spanner". She brings her expertise from multiple domains together to ev...

Welcome to our first "Learning On the Edge" episode where your cohosts, Nita and Sylvia, share their expertise on human-centred design and its application towards Social Innovation. In this episode, we share our learnings and personal experiences around Empathy and use of the design tool, the Empathy Map, towards humanizing healthcare experiences. This episode also provides a brief recap of "On th...

"There's a deep need and desire to connect, communicate and share" - Mehbs describing Transitioners' mindsets.   In this episode, we welcome Mehbs Remtulla, the founder of What's neXT?!, which he describes as "a community based and curated digital ecosystem, aimed at connecting Transitioners (defined as mid to late career individuals and self-described retirees) to opportunities for flexible work,...

"We all go through transitions...There's so much opportunity to use that transitional time to propel you forward...to be on the edge of the next thing that you're going to do." - Yinka Macaulay  In this episode, we welcome Yinka Macaulay, founder of Well Millennial. This innovative initiative began with Yinka's own experience transitioning to the workforce after completing a graduate degree in Pub...

"Let's all together normalize and reframe menopause" - Teresa Isabel Dias  In this episode, three generations of women (Millennial, Generation X and Boomer) talk about menopause, a hot health topic that's finally being highlighted in the mainstream media.  Your cohosts interview Teresa Isabel Dias, menopause expert and founder of MenopausED, an organization that offers one-on-one consultations for...

"Futures tools could help spark innovation in the Digital Social Innovation space" - German Charum-Sanchez In this pilot episode, your cohosts highlight the Library Project that Sylvia and German worked on as an example of a social innovation project that benefited from use of a Futures Thinking tool. We also interview our SIC colleague, German about his background as an industrial designer, and h...