by Kara Martin | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Entrepreneur, Redemptive Design
In a previous blog, we met Aron and Louise Mercer, an amazing couple who are innovative leaders of change in their respective fields. They were our guest speakers at our recent Imagine Series Event. Aron has founded and advised several social enterprise start-ups....
by Kara Martin | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Entrepreneur, Faith and Work, News
Aron and Louise Mercer are an amazing couple who are innovative leaders of change in their respective fields. They were our guest speakers at our recent Imagine Series Event. Aron knows how to sell things. During a commercial career with Salmat, Experian &...
by John Beckett | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Design and Innovation, Redemptive Design
Recently I had a participant in one of our training courses in tears as she went through an imagination process. The tears came because of a realisation that she had lost the capacity to imagine. I spend a lot of time thinking about the future, so I’m always surprised...
by John Beckett | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Design and Innovation, Redemptive Design
Innovation is not a word that we readily associate with the Christian church or the faith-based sector. We’re seen as traditionalists, outdated, resisters of change. That perception is only partly true. Our Christian story requires both a firm ‘yes’ and a firm ‘no’ to...
by Kara Martin | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Entrepreneur
The seven women are gathered in the boardroom looking at me with expectation. Each of them have been working mostly alone on projects that have absorbed their thoughts, actions, lives for up to 12 years. We are going to work together over the next ten months to...