04 / TEACHING & SPEAKING

Learning to see differently.

Business design and systems thinking for executives, educators, and people leading change.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION / INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION / INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Business Design at Rotman.

Simon teaches in the Global Executive MBA program at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. His teaching connects business design with the challenges of strategy, innovation, and organizational leadership.

His international innovation education experience includes Brazil and Uganda, bringing different institutional and cultural contexts into the conversation about design and change.

TEACHING & SPEAKING TOPICS

Questions worth exploring together.

  • Business Design

  • Healthcare by Design

  • Human-Centered Innovation

  • Systems Thinking

  • Business Design

  • Healthcare by Design

  • Human-Centered Innovation

  • Systems Thinking

  • Designing Organizations for Complexity

  • Healthcare Safety and Organizational Learning

  • Communication and Resolution

  • Leading Innovation in Complex Systems

  • Designing Organizations for Complexity

  • Healthcare Safety and Organizational Learning

  • Communication and Resolution

  • Leading Innovation in Complex Systems

The learning continues.

The learning continues.

Former students and executive education participants are welcome to reconnect. For course materials, reading recommendations, or a question from a previous session, include your program and the year you attended in your enquiry. Only materials cleared for sharing will be provided.

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Simon Mawer, MBA, LLB

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Blue Wren is an independent professional platform. Institutional affiliations describe Simon’s experience; they do not imply representation, endorsement, or a commercial relationship with Blue Wren.