How can we set ourselves (and others) up for success and “smart luck” in a world full of uncertainty? How can we create a career that combines money and meaning—even today, when we cannot know which jobs will still exist tomorrow? Three exceptional leaders from the worlds of business, politics, social entrepreneurship, academia, and the media will discuss how they got where they are, how they engineered serendipity (“smart luck”) in their lives, and what we can all learn from it. This event marks the launch of the international paperback version of Dr. Christian Busch’s “wise, exciting, and life-changing” (Arianna Huffington) book Connect the Dots: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck (Hardcover: The Serendipity Mindset).
Hosted by: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in collaboration with the SPS Center for Global Affairs, New York University
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Panelists:
- Eric Schurenberg, CEO of INC and FastCompany
Eric Schurenberg is the CEO of Inc. Magazine and Fast Company. Previously, Eric was the editor of CBS MoneyWatch.com and BNET.com and managing editor of Money Magazine. As a writer, he is a winner of a Loeb and the National Magazine Award, and he’s been a frequent commentator on shows like the Nightly Business Report, The Today Show, and Marketplace Radio, offering his take on the issues of the day.
- Michelle McKenna, Chief Information Officer, National Football League (NFL) & Board Member, Amway / Alticor
Michelle McKenna is the Chief Information Officer of the National Football League (NFL), board member of Amway/Alticor, and previously led successful digital transformations at The Walt Disney Company, Universal Studios, and Constellation Energy. Recently named among the top 25 CIOs of Fortune 500 companies by Forbes, and honored with a lifetime achievement in technology as an ORBIE recipient.
- Gina Badenoch, BEM, founder, Capaxia & Ojos Que Sienten; YGL, World Economic Forum
Gina Badenoch is the founder of Ojos que Sienten, which teaches photography to blind people, and Capaxia, which lowers the impact of our bias designing an inclusive, empathetic and human centered recruitment and development of talent model. She is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum; an Ashoka Fellow; and was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) by the Queen.
- Moderated by Dr. Christian Busch, Director, CGA Global Economy Program, NYU & Visiting Fellow, Marshall Institute, LSE
Dr. Christian Busch is the Director of the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University (NYU), and also teaches at the London School of Economics (LSE). A cofounder of Leaders on Purpose and the Sandbox Network - and a former director of LSE's Innovation Lab – he is a member of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Expert Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 thinkers "most likely to shape the future." Twitter: @ChrisSerendip.
Host: Mimi Nguyen is an associate lecturer of MA Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London. She is a Doctoral Researcher and MEng Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London, Faculty of Engineering. Her research on creativity and human-computer interaction has been published by Cambridge University Press, Design Research Society and TIME Magazine.
About the MA Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins, UAL
Central Saint Martins’ bespoke MA Innovation Management course works with students who are passionate about developing creative strategies to drive innovation and transformative change in an uncertain world. Led with a strong sense of vision, this transdisciplinary MA combines theory and practice, mixing creative projects and fieldwork opportunities with lectures and rigorous writing assignments. It offers a collaborative learning community in which students from a wide range of fields – including design, business, science, policy, digital entrepreneurship and art – continuously challenge each other to transcend their limits as they learn how to lead processes of hybrid creativity and innovation. This course is part of the Culture and Enterprise programme and it collaborates with a wide range of partners internally and externally.
For more information, see the MA Innovation Management course page.
