About the Authors

Our expertise lies in helping people and organizations prepare for the risks and opportunities of the future, especially in turbulent times. We are not stagehands, musicians, dancers, directors, actors or venue managers who are living first-hand the implications of dramatic transformation in the performing arts as new technology seeps into every corner of the creative world. However, as lovers of the arts, we have been especially drawn to work repeatedly with creators, producers, audiences, and sector enablers to provide the information needed for thriving as our reality shifts.

HELEN KERR

Helen Kerr has over 25 years’ experience as the leader of one of North America’s pre-eminent, research driven, innovation, Foresight, design and strategy companies. Multi-disciplinary approaches to highly complex problems have been the undercurrent of her career and she brings business analytics and creative thinking to all projects. Helen has facilitated major research and strategy projects with clients around the world. Helen also teaches graduate students at OCAD University and the University of Waterloo. Helen was featured in a CBC documentary “Great Minds of Design” and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

NIGEL SMITH

Nigel Smith has 25 years’ experience with diverse international clients in a variety of sectors including the performing arts, architecture, healthcare, transportation, philanthropy, universities, art museums, cities, fashion retailers, and wealth management. As creative director, Nigel Smith has collaborated on research and design projects and approaches his work with an assessment of context, and viability. He has written extensively on branding and design for Canada's National Post. His design process is a dialogue with clients where research, prototyping, critique, humour and writing are used with the formal elements of design to solve problems. Currently he is exploring guerrilla signage as a catalyst for placemaking.

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