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Change leadership

File contains reports, guides and modules created by the Innovation Expedition and the Axia Lifeskills partnership.

Knowledge management clippings

File includes articles and feature sections from the The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Financial Post, International Herald Tribune, Edmontonians, London Free Press and USA Today.

Innovation forum clippings

File contains newspaper articles in the areas of business, management, and finance from The Toronto Star, South China Morning Post and Financial Post.

Learning and leadership development

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.

Imagination toolkit material

File includes overhead transparencies, mind puzzles, and papers and other documents on mental maps, cross-cultural education, and 'the learning organization.'

Transformation project records and other material

Series consists of records that document Don Simpson's work through the Innovation Expedition (IE), mentoring both public sectors and private organizations in their transformation processes. Transformation processes were usually an application of IE's Challenge Dialogue System and included such things as consultation; strategic planning; continuous improvement; leadership development; searching for innovations in systems, networks and operations; organizational integration; professional development; knowledge management; and personal mentoring. Tools used by Innovation Expedition in their projects included customized toolkits, presentations, workshops, retreats and conferences. Simpson mentored transformations in the agriculture sector, human resources sector, health sector, and departments of the Alberta government. He worked with Alberta's agriculture and food industry on AgSummit, a five-month consultation process for agriculture stakeholders addressing concerns, current issues and emerging opportunities. In the health sector, Simpson guided discussions of the future of health care and long term care, and was involved with international organizations including the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), Essential National Health Research (ENHR), Asian Health Research Forum and Coalition for Global Health Research. Africa-based health groups included AfriAfya, a consortium of health non-governmental organizations, for which Simpson has been a key advisor and supporter since its formation in 2000; AMREF, the African Medical Research Foundation; AfHRF, the African Health Research Forum; and the Triple A Health Alliance of AMREF, AfriAfya and Action Africa Help International (AAH-I). Work in Canada included collaborations with Educating Future Physicians for Ontario (EFPO) and the Centre for Global Health at the University of Ottawa. In government, Simpson worked with the Alberta Agricultural Research Institute and Alberta Economic Development. In the corporate world, he was a mentor and facilitator in the transformation work of Canadian Oxy Occidental Petroleum Ltd; AVCO Financial Services of Canada and later its parent company, Textron; Bayer Pharmaceuticals (formerly Miles Canada); Alberta Science Research Authority (ASRA); Maple Leaf Foods; and AVAC Ltd, which represents Alberta's "agri-value industry." A significant portion of the records in the series pertain to Simpson's project with Textron: a Fortune 100 company with divisions in aircraft, finance, automotive and industrial products, Textron engaged IE from 1996 to 1998 with developing and running leadership forums, a professional development program for its Internal Consultants, mentoring Director of Change Pat Tod, and creating the Textron Global Operations Improvement Centre (GOIC). The records in the series are comprised of the contents of resource, planning and program binders, articles, notes, correspondence, reports, memoranda, presentation slides (print-outs of Microsoft PowerPoint), overhead transparencies, newsletters, workshop packages and support materials, business plans, challenge papers, critical issues documents, IE "travel guides," toolkits and backgrounders. There are also the contents of many project or client binders created over the course of a project. These project records may consist of any or all of the following: client information, work-tracking records, meeting notes, invoices, budget materials, contracts, correspondence, internal memoranda and background information. In addition the series contains four sound recordings from the Bayer Health Congress in 1996, and a CD-ROM presenting the continuous improvement vision for Textron.

Imagination toolkit material

File includes overhead transparencies, mind puzzles, and papers and other documents on mental maps, cross-cultural education, and 'the learning organization.'

Don Simpson fonds

  • F0592
  • Fonds
  • [190-?]-2011

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.

Innovation Expedition Diagnostix (TM)

File contains Diagnostix documents on positive team building, customer focus and loyalty, teamwork, "Learning, performance and evaluation," team assessment, team climate, service culture check, the circumplex model, team effectiveness, Textron learning passport, managing transition, key drivers for high performing organizations, EFPO (Educating Future Physicians for Ontario) assessment toolkit, enabling leadership assessment, Frank Haslam Milan employee survey, behaviour style profile, and other Diagnostix tools.

Axia Performance Centre : TV series

File contains presentations, email correspondence, articles, episode outlines and scripts, and topical resources, for a television series on business in the 20th century developed by Stephen Murgatroyd.

AXIA NetMedia products

File includes memoranda, notes and travel guides on the Textron 'rapid improvement process,' a proposal to Human Resources Development Canada for building a community capacity-building website, and a travel guide with exhibits for developing an online global centre for innovative non-profit leadership (PDS (TM) for non-profits).

Reflective resources articles

File contains articles entitled "Surfing the third wave," "The theory of constraints" and the "The role-based leadership model."

Innovation Expedition Diagnostix (TM)

File contains Diagnostix documents on positive team building, customer focus and loyalty, teamwork, "Learning, performance and evaluation," team assessment, team climate, service culture check, the circumplex model, change leader skill, team effectiveness, Textron learning passport, managing transition, key drivers for high performing organizations, EFPO (Educating Future Physicians for Ontario) assessment toolkit, enabling leadership assessment, Frank Haslam Milan employee survey, behaviour style profile, and other Diagnostix tools.

Steve Murgatroyd

File contains an article by Murgatroyd on "Making quality happen"; nine characteristics of high performing teams; leadership; and material for the TV series, "Business in the 21st century" including the role of government.

Workbooks and toolkits

File contains workbooks and toolkits on the use of benchmarking and process mapping; learning and high performance; making measurement work; scenario building; and strategic thinking. The products were created by Triple i, AXIA Innovation Mentoring Unit and Innovation Expedition, for clients Textron, Bayer and LearnNB.

Mike Pegg's material

File contains mentoring material of Mike Pegg, an associate in the UK specialized in teaching people how to mentor. The records include materials from a workshop on developing mentoring skills; a workbook on how to be a superb mentor; and a paper entitled "Pacesetters : how they are equipping their people to manage the future world of work." File also contains documents of the AXIA Performance Centre and mentoring unit.

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