Build & Support
We build capability and capacity in those who support entrepreneurs by developing frameworks and plans for local programs, sharing stories, and equipping leaders with the models and frameworks to be sustainable. This can be hands-on engagement to determine feasibility in the early-days of a regional innovation hub to facilitating workshops and hackathons in an established community.
Two days in Wagga Wagga: Regional ecosystem building through the Australia Post Regional Pitchfest
Two days in Wagga Wagga has left me inspired and encouraged about Australia’s capacity to build sustainable regional innovation ecosystems. The series of events I attended, coordinated by the Australia Post Regional Pitchfest, highlighted the power of...
How do you build ecosystem resilience? Reflections on the Advance Queensland Venturer Program
“Adventurer Mission – i think you should apply” And with this personal email invitation in May, 2017, I was introduced to the concept of the Advance Queensland Venturer Program. The Program, brain child of Queensland Chief Entrepreneur Mark...
Lessons from the Kauffman Foundation 2017 ESHIP Summit: A call out to ecosystem builders
If you were to get your tribe together, who would be in the room? At the recent inaugural two-day ESHIP Summit in Kansas City, the Kauffman Foundation’s Andy Stoll asked me if I had found my tribe. My answer was unequivocally “Yes”. The ESHIP Summit focused on...
Five observations for regional innovation hubs from a North American Innovation Tour
It has been a busy few months since my three weeks in North America visiting as many innovation hubs, co-working spaces, investment groups, councils, and accelerators as I could fit in across Boulder, Denver, San Francisco, Kansas City, Toronto, Seattle, and...