Series consists of records relating to Simpson's efforts to promote learning and leadership development, including general resource material, toolkits, articles, and theme files.
Series also includes course descriptions, notes, correspondence, committee minutes and other records relating to Simpson's work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Series also documents Simpson's efforts to develop the Centre for International Business Studies (CIBS) at the University of Western Ontario in the late 1980s, including preliminary plans, correspondence, program and conference material, resource material, speeches, and project records. In particular, many files relate to CIBS partnerships with Chinese educational institutions and the Institute for International Business Communication (IIBC) in Japan, in particular relating to their Corporate Communications Seminars.
Series also consists of correspondence, speeches, planning files and notebooks related to Simpson's term as Vice President and Director of the Banff Centre for Management in Alberta, including the Banff Centre's relationship with the Prosperity Secretariat.
Series also includes records relating to Axia's efforts at leadership development, via the School for Change Leaders/Agents and Athabasca University in the late 1990s.
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 includes tools on the balanced scorecard, the customer service chain, catalogue of toolkits, "making measurement work," mentoring skills and "mind thumpers" for Textron.
File consists of an unlabelled VHS tape. A post-it note says "Don, I didn't forget...and I did it correctly! LP"
File consists of a VHS tape containing 3 separate programs. The first is "Part 3 healing of the mind". The second is New "Zealand - new economics". The third is "Curling - Scott's tournament".
File includes pieces on international business, political leadership, human resources in the 1990s, strategic partnerships, innovation and Canada's prosperity, 21st century problems.
File consists of a poster that reads "I finally got it all together but I forgot where I put it."
File includes a photograph of Donald Simpson with Frances Nyammo, founder of the School for Professional Studies in Kenya, June 1984.
File contains pamphlets, newsletters, proposals, programme outlines and correspondence with the directors of the Terra Nova Centre residential conference site.
File contains resumes, clippings, newsletters and other items.
File contains a CD with 15 video clips and a special section of the London Free Press on Wayne Gretsky.
File consists of the materials for a homemade game about business, including cards, dice and coloured popsicle sticks
Poster features a group postrait of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team with its general manager, owner, assistant general manager, co-coach and trainers. It includes Simpson's son, Craig Simpson.
Item is a photograph of the Craig Simpson celebrity classic participants. Persons pictured include Craig Simpson, Dave Simpson, Wayne Gretsky and Janet Jones, then Premier of Alberta Don Getty, Elizabeth Manley, Eddie Olczyk, Kurt Browning, Grant Fuhrer, Mario Lemieux, Karen Percy, Scotty Morrison, and Alan Frew of Glass Tiger.
Series consists of records and resources relating to various aspects of Don Simpson's work, including miscellaneous correspondence, speeches to various groups, overheads used at various presentations, photographs, theme files, various articles on human resource development, business and innovation, and other records. Series also includes several files organized by Simpson titled "Key leaders with whom Simpson has worked" which bring together material relating to particular individuals and organizations, including the Terra Nova Group, Richard M. Harley, International Management Development and Euro-Asia Centre, Elizabeth Rose, and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund.
File contains one clipping and 15 photographs.
File contains 9 photographs and several Christmas cards with artwork by Brian.