In our second month of operation, L3 has been intensifying its research in preparation for the first of five Workshops, coming up fast at the end of January 2020.
Major movements in November
- The Research Team has conducted multiple interviews with stakeholders in the social finance, labour, small business, and co-operative and social enterprise sectors, and will continue to hold these throughout the next two months. The information gleaned from these interviews will prove crucial to the preparation of the first few Workshops.
- Our Project Manager has continued to sow connections in the intersecting fields and sectors that L3’s work touches. We have developed a sponsorship package that we will be presenting to key organizations and businesses very soon – with the help of the larger community, our Workshops stand to host all the major players in social purpose conversions and business succession.
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L3 is pleased to welcome Tara Campbell to the team as our Lab Coordinator. Tara Campbell is a systemic designer, combining design methods with systems thinking to advance systems change. She has a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from OCAD University where she developed her practice to include design thinking, participatory design, innovation strategy, systems thinking, and foresight. Beyond her work with the Legacy Leadership Lab, she is the strategic engagement catalyst for Dene Nahjo, an Indigenous innovation collective, and a member of the design collective Superorganism. Tara has hit the ground running this month, getting acquainted with the system and beginning preliminary Workshop design with Principal Investigator Sean Geobey.
Events and networking
L3 attended a fascinating one-day event in Calgary, AB in November hosted by Startup Canada, the Startup Community Builders’ Summit. L3 also attended the Startup Calgary Launch Party at the beautiful Big Four Roadhouse in Stampede Park.
The Big Four Roadhouse all lit up at Startup Calgary Launch Party.
These events were an opportunity to engage with Calgary and the region’s start-up culture and meet many new faces to collaborate with when L3 comes to Western Canada next year. L3 looks forward to working more closely with the new friends we made in Calgary in November!
Startup Community Builders' Summit in Calgary. Meg accidentally stood in the spotlight. Photo credit: Startup Canada.
It’s official!
Our first of five workshops is announced for January 29-30 at the Ontario Investment and Trade Centre in downtown Toronto. Attendance is by invitation only and spots are very limited, but we plan on making the outcomes and learnings from the Workshop widely available online here on our website and beyond. Next stop on the L3 tour will likely be Montreal in the spring. Stay tuned!
About Legacy Leadership Lab (L3)
L3 is an 18-month initiative by the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, funded by the Government of Canada’s Investment Readiness program. We are leading five Workshops from coast to coast to help build expert-driven solutions for Canada’s transitioning small business community. During these Workshops, the we will develop market interventions and prototypes that allow conventional and social finance players, business service providers, and community leaders to facilitate social purpose conversions of existing businesses in their own towns.
About Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR)
WISIR is a research institute at the University of Waterloo’s School of Environment, Enterprise and Development committed to generating trans- and inter-disciplinary knowledge about social innovations and the social innovation process (the dynamics of learning, adaptation and resilience). Our approach is to pursue collaborative research and projects that bridge University of Waterloo departments, involve researchers from around the world, and engage those beyond academia. We seek to mobilize this knowledge through a range of new curriculum offerings and training opportunities - both within and outside of a university setting.