Fonds consists of records documenting the personal and professional experiences of Don Simpson from the 1950s to 2011 in countries around the world. Records include correspondence, notebooks, reports and toolkits, speeches, resource material, memorabilia and other records relating to his activities in a wide range of educational, social justice, development, government and business innovation organizations. Topics covered include international education and cross-cultural understanding; international development and health; the rights of Canada's Aboriginal peoples; the history of African-Canadian communities; environmental issues; innovation in business and the non-profit sector; human resources development; and economic development from Alberta to China and Africa. Fonds also consists of personal correspondence, family photographs and memorabilia relating to Simpson's personal and family life.
Simpson, Donald G.File contains short documents on learning contracts, the agile learner, the alignment process, systems thinking, profile of high performing individuals and other topics.
File contains a 3.5" floppy disk.
File contains a 3.5" floppy disk.
File contains a 3.5" floppy disk.
File consists of a CD containing several version of the image that is printed on the disk label (a CDS diagram)
File consists of a CD with electronic files (.ppt, .doc, .pdf, .dll) containing PowerPoint presentations, academic papers and a booklet on the conference.
Series consists of records documenting Simpson's mentoring work in the 1990s, through the mentoring group at the International Institute for Innovation (Triple i), then the Global Mentoring Team of Axia/Lifeskills International, and most recently, the Innovation Expedition. Simpson's work included projects with corporate, non-profit, government and individual clients such as James Orbinski of Doctors Without Borders. The records in this series include Powerpoint presentation print-outs, overhead transparencies, clippings, magazines, correspondence and memoranda. There are also knowledge products such as workshop manuals, toolkits, workbooks and "mind thumpers" of the Innovation Expedition -- concise learning resources focused on a particular topic. The second part of the series consists of theme files. These were resource files used by Simpson to create mentoring toolkits in the mid-1990s and cover\ business, economical and innovation issues such as education, change management, strategic planning and the new knowledge economy. The theme files contain articles, papers, reports, speeches, publications, clippings, toolkits, exercises and tools, presentations, overhead transparencies, notes, University of Western Ontario course syllabi and papers, memoranda, and cartoons. Some theme files relate to specific projects, such as AVCO and the Canada-Kenya Executive Management Program.
File contains records on the development of the AXIA Performance Centre (APC) and the AXIA Performance Delivery System (PDS-TM)
File includes a catalogue of Innovation Expedition knowledge products: Mind Thumpers, insight notes, travel guides, workbooks, toolkits, digital workspaces and manuscript books
File includes book, "Entrepreneurs in education : Canada's response to the international human resource development challenge," by Donald Simpson and Carol Sissons.