Mark Leung
@markleung8
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An award winning corporate innovation coach. I help organizations find new growth opportunities on the outside and increase co-creation on the inside.
Toronto
Joined January 2009
Congratulations to all the ventures pitching at the 2023 Arthritis Ideator Awards. Shout out to Rod Black for crushing it as MC!
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"Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem. If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome." –@JamesClear
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Thank you to @S_Nouman_Ashraf for the opportunity to explore the intersection of Stakeholder Centred Design and Social Innovation with his @RotmanMBA students. Loved the curiosity, thoughtfulness and reflexivity! #humility #empathy #cocreation #iteration
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“If one asked permission there was a 50% chance it would be refused. If one just got on with it, 19 times out of 20 nothing was said.” Thanks - Trevor Kletz @JamesClear
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Today is a good reminder that Canada needs to keep tackling the issues the plague us, keep renovating our institutions and keep talking to one another, even when we disagree. Don’t be smug, work like hell to make sure we don’t end up in the same place. #policymatters 🇨🇦
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"The only way through this, if there is a way through this, is to experiment with lots of “small, low risk” ideas at once." #adaptation #darwinsm #experimentation #innovation
https://t.co/9J2Z51ZvPG
nytimes.com
The pandemic made the lunch chain’s biggest strength — hundreds of stores in central London — its biggest weakness overnight.
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This is either a big business opportunity or an environmental disaster. Do I really need that 20 lbs tub of gummy bears? https://t.co/6qvyXgXwM6
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Thanks to @S_Nouman_Ashraf for the opportunity to discuss the intersection of #design #leadership and #socialinnovation. Thank you to your students for their thoughful questions. #stakeholders #inclusion #empathy #humilty
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Change the model, change the outcome. A novel approach to VC that does good and does well. #realgrowth
https://t.co/w0DjfObguO
marker.medium.com
Why a creative approach to venture capital is powering more sustainable startups — and more diverse founders
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Actual picture of companies who haven't pivoted their business model due to the pandemic
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Congratulations to the @RotmanMBA team on a fantastic innovation project with @TELUS. Sorry we couldn't do this in person! Thank you to @judymellett and her team on a fantastic partnership. #groupphotoin2021 #businessdesign #servicedesign
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The US is now on pace to have the worst coronavirus outbreak anywhere...
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"Give your teams freedom to innovate and make things happen, but hold them accountable to a speed of learning. Not a speed of reaching scale." Well said @bethcomstock
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"Sometimes there are just no solutions to be had. In these cases, companies must find ways to function with the tension rather than do away with it. In the long run, these tensions can generate creative insights." @sarah_kaplan in @stratandbiz
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"The challenge with skunkworks is that to the organization, it still smells like skunk." - M.Serino 😂 #innovation
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“When I have an interview w/ god at the end of my life, he’s not going to show me how high I went on an org chart, or how much money I left behind. But rather, he will say “Clay can we talk about the individuals you helped to become better people. “ — @claychristensen RIP
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She's done it! 🇨🇦 Bianca Andreescu defeats 🇺🇸 Serena Williams in straight sets to win the #USOpen, becoming the first Canadian to win a major singles event! Is this real life? You better believe it. #SheTheNorth
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