Top 10 Learning Moments
- I think that creative freedom is something that absolutely needs to endure. — Sam Miller
- If I look to suffering as a lesson or as a gift, not as a burden, I just might discover something that is wonderful. — Melvin Dowdy
- There is a lot of discussion and rhetoric around well-being, but how do you actually put it into place? It is one thing to say it and another thing to do it. — Alma McCarthy
- It’s not if we suffer, it’s how we suffer and the way we suffer that matters in terms of learning. — Melvin Dowdy
- At the intersection of curiosity, imagination, and restlessness is where magic happens. — Sam Miller
- I would argue that the future is not fully remote. It is probably going to be a hybrid, blended, flexed, distributed, or anywhere workforce. — Alma McCarthy
- Anticipatory innovation aims to look around the corner and see what’s over the horizon. — Sam Miller
- The way in which we approach asking questions is very important and it gives us a new opportunity or avenue to rethink problems. — Lisa Caulfield
- It’s not just about imagining new ideas, but it’s about combining ideas that are imaginative. — Sam Miller
- It’s very clear from our research that things are very unlikely to go back to the way they were. — Alma McCarthy
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Featured Speakers
Sam Miller, Director of Undergraduate Studies – Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Associate Teaching Professor, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Lisa Caulfield, Director of the Global Centre at Kylemore
Dr. Melvin Dowdy, Executive Education Programme Faculty, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Ph.D., M.Div., M.A., Mendoza Business School’s Executive Education Center at Notre Dame
Alma McCarthy, Head of the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics and Professor of Public Sector Management, National University of Ireland, Galway
“I would argue that the future is not fully remote. It is probably going to be a hybrid, blended, flexed, distributed, or anywhere workforce”
– Alma McCarthy
Looking Back From the Future
Professor Miller discusses future-oriented leadership and discussion with the idea of looking back from the future, but acting now (with clarity—but not certainty).
Becoming Entrepreneurial
Professor Sam Miller introduces the idea of entrepreneurial identity and innovation and tackles the question of “What is it like to BE entrepreneurial?”
The Attributes of Creative Genius
Prof. Miller introduces seven Da Vincian principles as discussed in the reading for this week by Michael J. Gelb and connects them to entrepreneurial foresight.
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