Dr. Ginger Grant is a Canadian community innovation leader focused on helping communities adapt to demographic change and the realities of longer lives. Her work centers on the design and implementation of Age-Friendly community systems that support people to live, work, and participate fully as they age, while strengthening local economies and community resilience. She works at the intersection of municipalities, community organizations, post-secondary institutions, and funding ecosystems to design and operate initiatives that move beyond planning into real-world implementation.
Dr. Grant’s work places particular emphasis on the longevity economy — recognizing older adults as contributors to communities, labour markets, and local economic stability. She supports partners in developing evidence-informed models that align policy goals, service delivery, workforce development, and community capacity.
She is a founding board member of the Age Friendly Niagara Council and Vice President and board member of the Ontario Association of Councils on Aging. At the national level, she contributes to applied research and community innovation ecosystems through research review and advisory activities connected to federal funding programs.
Dr. Grant is known for designing and operationalizing cross-sector strategies that work within real-world policy, funding, and service environments. Using systems thinking, co-creation, strategic foresight, and applied research, she helps partners translate demographic insight into implementable strategy.
Dr. Grant is the founder of the Creative Intelligence Lab and our chief culture officer – a strategist and organizational designer whose work is grounded in story as a tool for transformation. One of her heroes is Joseph Campbell who helped found the graduate school where she obtained her PhD in mythological studies and depth psychology. Ginger’s industry background is the world of mergers and acquisitions and her research work resulted in a cultural due diligence system to measure and enhance corporate culture. Her passion and expertise lies in the development of creativity clusters that accelerate innovation. Ginger’s work aims at leveraging the ability of individuals, teams and organizations to uncover untapped potential using design-driven innovation. Author of Re-Visioning the Way We Work, her latest book, Finding Your Creative Core was published in April 2009. A Professor in Innovation at Sheridan College in Canada and an Associate Professor in Values-Based Leadership at Royal Roads University, Ginger also serves as an special advisor for Innovation Metrics and Customer Experience Councils with the Conference Board of Canada. In her spare time, she is a popular international speaker and a Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School where she teaches talent management, business anthropology and organizational ethnography.
“Ginger Grant is an inspiring and engaging speaker. She offers a leading edge presentation and is able to captivate the audience with her knowledge, charisma and presentation style. She is passionate about her topics and consistently reveals thought leadership in the areas she speaks about.” Andrew Pender, Senior Manager, Conference Board of Canada
Dr. De Ciantis is an experienced international consultant, program designer, facilitator and executive coach. Since 1985, Cheryl has been associated with the Center for Creative Leadership (a not-for-profit international research and educational institution based in the USA), with whom she remains an adjunct senior faculty member. Cheryl was a core designer and deliverer for two of the Center’s most innovative programs: Leading Creatively (which was a key intervention in a major technology company’s breakthrough R&D project selection process) and LeaderLab® (which won recognition as a model program from the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, founded by Daniel Goleman). Between 1998 and 2000, she served as Director of the Center’s Brussels, Belgium campus.
She is the co-author of the Values PerspectiveTM personal and group values survey. More information regarding values can be found at the website for Kairios. Cheryl obtained her doctorate in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, which houses the Joseph Campbell Library. A working artist, Cheryl draws on an exceptionally broad range of tools across the entire spectrum of learning preferences, both individual and organizational, to produce new observations and insights that lead to productive results.
Dr. Hyatt is an expert in human communication including organizational, interpersonal, small group, team and intercultural communication. He is an international facilitator, trainer, executive coach and program designer for personal and organizational development work. His particular areas of expertise include values assessment and development for individuals, teams and organizations; creativity assessment and development, and coaching managers to be coaches. He has published nationally and internationally, and is a co-author of the Values Perspective, an individual and group values assessment survey (more information regarding values can be found at the website for Kairios.
Kenton is experienced in the use of interactive learning methods based on psychological and behavioral assessment integrated with creative methodologies to produce active learning environments which are designed to achieve the results that are best suited for each person, group and organization. He is a trained and accomplished artist in painting, photography, drawing in various media and storytelling. His Imaginalist book blends images and mythology. Between 1997 and 2000, Dr. Hyatt was European Program Director for the Center for Creative Leadership’s Leadership Development Program (recently ranked no. 4 globally by Financial Times). He also serves as an external reader for Pacifica Graduate Institute dissertations and has been a manuscript reviewer for Pfeiffer publishers.
Creativity in Business – designing for longer lives.
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