Ginger Grant

Professor (Marketing and Innovation) Sheridan College

  • Mississauga ON

Innovation Management, Leadership Development, Strategy, Corporate Anthropology, Organizational Design, Scenario Planning, Storytelling

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Biography

Dr. Grant is a strategist and organizational designer whose work is grounded in scenario planning and the use of image and narrative as a tool for transformation. Her expertise is increasing the ability of individuals, teams and organizations to capture untapped potential to leverage innovation. She works with a range of approaches and techniques, with an emphasis on experiential learning and applicability to real life challenges and aspirations. As a Jungian psychotherapist, she brings social and emotional intelligence practices into the world of business.

A passionate teacher and stimulating speaker, Ginger inspires and motivates others to identify and pursue their own unique paths. She is the only Canadian in the consulting team for the Stanford Business School “Creativity and Business” program. Ginger is the Managing Partner of Creativity in Business Canada Inc. and a Professor of Marketing and Innovation at Sheridan College. She is also an Advisor to the Canadian Council of Customer Experience, the Innovation Metrics Council and a frequent speaker with the Conference Board of Canada. In her spare time, she is a Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School where she teaches advanced market research and corporate anthropology.

Samples of Conference Videos available at www.mythginger.com

Industry Expertise

Women
Think Tanks
Talent Management
Design
Management Consulting
Corporate Leadership
Information Technology and Services
Advertising/Marketing
Social Media
Market Research

Areas of Expertise

Corporate Anthropology
Corporate Culture
Emotional and Creative Intelligence
Experiential and Archetypal Marketing
Scenario Planning
Revisioning Retirement
Innovation Culture
Design Thinking
Talent Management

Accomplishments

Board Member - Human Capital Executive Research Board

Market Intelligence Arm of Talent Management and Diversity Education

Advisor - Council for Client Relationships and Customer Experience

Special Advisor to Conference Board of Canada

Survived Mid-Life Crisis

Went back to School mid-life and did graduate work and post-doc.

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Education

Pacifica Graduate Institute

Doctorate

Depth Psychology/Mythology

2005

Mythologist Joseph Campbell helped form the Myth program. Metaphor is the native language of myth. Depth Psychology (or archetypal psychology) is the study of the human imagination and the use of image. Expert in how to enhance and develop people's creative ability. Dissertation was on Innovation and Corporate Culture.

Pacifica Graduate Institute

Master of Arts

Depth Psychology/Mythology

2000

Mythology is an important aspect to understanding a global economy. Myth carries the value system that drives behavior.

Stanford University

Post-doctoral studies

Creativity in Business Program

2005

Member of the teacher/trainer group "Creativity in Business". Founder Michel Ray has been called the father of Silicon Valley.

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Affiliations

  • Academy of Marketing Science
  • European Group for Organizational Studies
  • Special Advisor - Conference Board of Canada
  • British Academy of Management
  • Qualitative Research Consultants Association
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Testimonials

Senior Conference Planner

Conference Board of Canada

Ginger Grant is an inspiring and engaging speaker. Having worked with her on several speaking presentations for various audiences, I found her to be accommodating, organized and reliable.
As a 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.

Executive Director

Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers

Ginger Grant has worked with the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers twice. Each time she has wowed audiences with her selection of appropriate themes, compelling presentation style and expert knowledge base. In June 2009, Ginger was a featured speaker at the CACEE National On-Campus Recruitment Conference. Her talk on creativity in business, and why it’s essential to recognize and overcome barriers to creativity was extremely well received by all 250 delegates. You can be sure that Ginger Grant’s presentation will be both on- topic and entertaining, and that your organizing committee will be praised for offering such a terrific keynote speaker.

Director of Training and Development

Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Canada

Dr. Ginger Grant is a thoughtful and though-provoking speaker. She effectively wove her teachings into our convention theme with humour and with a focus on the mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters. After delivering her keynote address, Ginger was surrounded by delegates seeking more of her time and thoughts. Ginger is an accomplished speaker and storyteller, and was the perfect person to open our national convention.

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Event Appearances

ReVisioning the Way We Do Business

BLOOM Sustainability Applied 2013  Oakville, Ontario

2013-10-01

Tedx Milton

Tedx Milton - Linchpins  Milton, Ontario

2013-09-14

Keynote: Finding Your Creative Core

Journey2Success Women's Conference  Oakville, Ontario

2013-05-27

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Sample Talks

Branding from the Inside Out

Branding is a buzzword that is frequently misunderstood. A true brand is one that provides and enhances customer experience. It is the essence or what we call the “core” of who you are and what you do. Your brand is your ideology: some have called it your corporate religion. To identify the essence of your product or service, an archetypal or depth psychological approach is invaluable in locating and elaborating on brand experience of both your internal and external customers. Your brand must be anchored internally before it will be fully effective externally. This session will provide a foundation for fully living your brand from the inside out.

KEYNOTES or HALF AND FULL-DAY PROGRAMS INCLUDE:
- identify your organization’s appropriation of cultural meaning in operational metaphors
- isolate brand symbols and translate them into both language and behaviour
- understand the importance of your internal brand in aligning your corporate culture
- enhance employee engagement through internal brand extension
- use the four tools of creative thinking to extend your brand
use your brand as a pivotal planning tool for both short term and long term strategy

ReVisioning Retirement

Focus: Approximately half of our current workforce is facing retirement. In some organizations, numbers are higher. How can we re-vision the idea of retirement that permits retention of organizational knowledge as well as meet the needs of those who wish to retire? Talent management is key.

Our quick fix – one-step civilization provides us with every convenience to get ahead, advance and develop. If this is true, why are so many people voicing dissatisfaction with their lives and where they are? Perhaps we’ve become more focused with the destination rather than the journey. We’ve become distracted with the making of plans, rather than the living of life.

Approaching the second half of life can be a challenge but also provides immense opportunity. Acquiring a clearer understanding of your own journey ultimately provides you with an understanding and respect of the journey of others. This understanding opens the lines of communication and opens new opportunities to engage, collaborate and grow – in areas of your life.

This session focuses on methods to motivate and develop alternative retirement plans that fit both the organization and the employee. Learn how re-visioning retirement can enhance an employer of choice program. To re-vision retirement means to re-vision a new beginning, perhaps even crafting a new career.

KEYNOTES or HALF AND FULL-DAY PROGRAMS INCLUDE:
- learn how to extend your brand through alternative retirement programs

- identify and target key employees for knowledge retention

- build knowledge banks and human capital

- enhance both your employee and customer experience

Tapping the Power of Generational Diversity

Focus: We now have five competing generations in the workforce – all of which have a different value system. Miscommunication, confusion and conflict arise when people of different generations or cultures work together. How then do you optimize team performance? Understanding your own cultural and generational assumptions and communication style is the first step. This workshop will show you how to establish a cultural/generational framework by which managers can enhance the creative effects of generational diversity. The use of archetypal keys unlocks the door in understanding the differences across generations.


KEYNOTES or HALF AND FULL-DAY PROGRAMS INCLUDE:
- understand the motives of those you seek to lead
- understand how your own behaviour contributes to team performance
- develop ability to recognize opportunities and avoid pitfalls in generational diversity
- focus on key challenges and formulate a challenge statement to focus efforts
- discover how to work with the science of archetypal keys and cultural memes
- gain new insight into the people issues that effect business outcomes
- set specific goals to help you navigate five generations in the workforce

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Style

Availability

  • Keynote
  • Moderator
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Host/MC
  • Author Appearance
  • Corporate Training

Fees

$5000 to $10000
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