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Kerry is a Maker Studio design specialist at Mount Royal University. In this episode, we discussed the design process and its life applications, the role of design in innovation, and how the Mount Royal University innovation ecosystem is preparing students for entrepreneurship and innovation and enriching the larger Calgary ecosystem.\nFor the transcription of this episode, please visit: https://www.rainforestab.ca/yyc-blog/podcast-episode-136-transcription\nThank you for listening to the Leaders, Innovators and Big Ideas podcast, supported by\xa0Rainforest Alberta. The podcast that highlights those people who are contributing to and/or supporting the innovation ecosystem in Alberta.Wunmi Adekanmbi immigrated 10 years ago from Nigeria where she was a post-secondary instructor and researcher, and led a youth empowerment non profit. Wunmi is passionate about people, information and solutions - in that order. She is a strategist and a connector. Her greatest motivation is creating coherent value streams across organizational functional units using a systems thinking approach. She strives to inspire confidence and intentionality in leadership, equip teams to execute from a big picture perspective, and harness community inter-dependencies. Wunmi is the Organizer and host of Immigrant Techies Alberta, a tech enthusiast group for skilled immigrants who are in or are interested in pivoting to tech careers and startups.\nKerry Harmer is a design evangelist with a passion for social, cultural and environmental engagement and community development. She employs design strategies to lead applied research and innovation as a product developer, entrepreneur, facilitator, educator and changemaker.\nPlease be sure to share this episode with everyone you know. If you are interested in being either a host, a guest, or a sponsor of the show, please reach out. We are published in Google Podcasts\xa0and the\xa0iTunes store for Apple Podcasts We would be grateful if you could give us a rating as it helps spread the word about the show.\nShow Quote:\n"We need design specialists. We also need design thinking to permeate every discipline. Design thinking brings out the creativity in everyone."\nCredits...This Episode Sponsored By:\xa0Community Now! MagazineEpisode Music:\xa0Tony Del DeganCreator & Producer:\xa0Al Del Degan\nEpisode Transcription:\n[00:00:00]\xa0Wunmi: Hi, my name is Wunmi Adekanmbi and I'll be your host today on the inference podcast. My guest on the show today is Carrie Harmer. Carrie is a design evangelist with a passion for social cultural and environmental engagement and community development. She employs design strategies to lead applied research and innovation as a product developer entrepreneurial facilitator, educator unchanged.\nWelcome to\nthe show. Carrie,\n[00:00:30]\xa0Kerry:\xa0thank you so much for having me Wunmi.\n[00:00:32]\xa0Wunmi: Yeah. I'm so\xa0glad you were able to join us on this show. let, let's just, let's meet you, Carrie. How, what's your story? How did you come to be the design guru? What's your journey into\xa0design?\n[00:00:45]\xa0Kerry: That's a really good question. I think I've always had a design mindset.\xa0and I think it came from my, from my family, from my background. So my, my grandfather and my father were very design minded or they weren't designers, but, they just had that kind of systems thinking the way that designers think. And I don't think I realized that until I really studied design and started to understand that design is really kind of a mindset and they had that mindset.\n[00:01:13]\xa0Kerry:\xa0And I think that's why I was so drawn to design. I get bored really easily. And I love making things and love the diversity that design brings and, and gives me in my life. Yeah. I just love all the different perspectives that you get with design and the different opportunities that are. I went to school and did, design art at Concordia university of Montreal, which is a great design city.\nAnd I really, really got to immerse myself in all k