Mike Diaz
Consulting Partner & Chair, Outsell Marketing & Sales Council, Growth Canvas Consulting LLC
I help leading education and technology organizations realize their full potential by understanding the customer, market, and competitive landscape and developing and deploying the right go-to-market strategies.
As the Head of Digital Online at GSMA, I have been developing and managing digital web and app platforms for various events, such as MWC Barcelona, MWC Shanghai, MWC Las Vegas, MWC Kigali, and the Mobile 360 series, for over 24 years. With a strong background in electronics design and multimedia programming, I have a deep knowledge of the mobile industry and its latest technologies and trends. I specialise in creating and implementing digital strategies that drive business growth, increase brand awareness, and deliver engaging and user-centred mobile experiences for iOS and Android platforms. I have a solid understanding of web and mobile app development, including native and hybrid, and I have led cross-functional teams and projects successfully and efficiently. I am passionate about pushing the boundaries of mobile technology and innovation, and I enjoy communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
I started out as a Fine Artist albeit with a background in the Arts as my family were also in the Arts in part. I graduated into what I now know to have been the worst recession since the '30s. Rather than be exhibiting in LA like one of the previous years grad I had shows but sold little and found myself working with Disney in London. ?! So I went back to study for a Masters in Ulster. Another Howzat. Interesting. Despite increasing the scale of my work selling was still difficult. The rest is history. I did the enterprise allowance scheme twice and freelanced but was also a trade union member and wound pursuing copyright interests with on behalf of as an elected lay rep then independently as the time frame in respect of my own rights interests differed. I have yet to recieve a penny due to the complexity of the law surrounding Copyrights. It has been a full time fight to survive. I would happily have escaped the Arts on many occasions my recent attempt being a venture into silversmithing where I might still be were it not for climate change. I am not a luddite just trying to escape chaos as we all are no doubt. I just happen to have consistently been directed to work online due to the fact that my circumstances left me subject to such direction. Gov. In work welfare. Currently I am on the Gov Restart programm seeking to either set up a seperate business for my silversmithing/jewellery design and manufacturing, yes I have CAD journeyman level. Thanks to my CAD tutor's level 5 project a behance profile and have maintained a number of social media profiles online at his direction. I was told repeatedly that I must stay online. Yes I still have an Identity Theft matter lodged with Notting Hill Police frankly issue might date back to the theft of my bag with various IDS passport & driving licence in 1984 from UCL. That's how bad it can get. I formed my company Visible Arts Ltd in 1998 in order to protect my sole tradership name which is Belinda Hale T/A Visible Arts. Surviving as an independent creator is hellishly difficult. I set up my websites not knowing how dangerous a .com can be. By 2017 I could not access my emails for spam.. I am still seeking to regain full control but it us happening gradually but as most 9f the works pertaining to my sole tradership are ' awol' ...Still pursuing that. The Copyrights let's say delegated to the protection or not of beetroot red embarrassed legal parties the Supreme Court included its a pretty heady mess up.. I did though assert my rights formally in 1996 which led to my being evicted from my flat in 1996 on the 1st May rather than remunerated as the directive stated that I must be. The EU Repeal Act is hardly helping.. chaos prevails so far as I can see my one consolation that I have no involvement with sexworking, porn let alone prostitution but frankly I might get remunerated if I were.. life's unpredictable..in the interim I console myself with creating wedding theme boards on pintrest weekly.. market research..people still want to get married and the wedding industry is the largest sector for jewellery sales.. online is very cold. I come from a big family and I miss company hence my foray into trading on the Portobello Market but that was to try and get sales to my websites online.. I miss the people and community matters to me. I read recently that chaos is because people are being used and things are being loved... I do find respite with other people online after a fashion. Hope this amuses. Saw a lovely shop to rent yesterday with a name that was aunts nickname..
An experienced, proactive and extremely organised events professional responsible for running clean energy and hydrogen events both live and digitally reaching every corner of the globe. I oversee the logistical organisation of the digital events and training portfolio as well as supporting the operational side of live events. This includes venue management, AV sourcing and set, signage designs, floor-plan layouts and additional add-on's to events like site visits and gala dinners.
Hub Manager at Design for Growth. Contact me if you have any queries about Design for Growth or using the Hub.
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Hi everyone! I reside in the Fort Myers, FL area and enjoy spending time with our two rescue pups, as well as heading to the beach to shell hunt. I'm also a music lover...a self admitted kid of the 80's I love pop music! :). I joined Cytel in February of 2022 and have a passion for helping customers and customer success teams succeed by delivering value based on the customer's identification of what value is. Having spent over 20 years working with customers in a collaborative, supporting role I am super excited to be a part of the Cytel Collaboration Community and look forward to learning and meeting new people in the community.
Founder of Customer-ization.com - we craft customer-focused growth strategies so your customers become your biggest cheerleaders.
George is a highly regarded not-for-profit and business leader, known for his ability to foster innovation through the start-up and operation of effective, inspiring and diverse initiatives in Canada and abroad.
He began his career co-founding and serving as CEO of Engineers Without Borders Canada, a leading innovation, advocacy and skills development NGO. Under his leadership for 14 years, EWB Canada grew into an organization of thousands of young leaders and engineers in Canada and across Africa. The organization invested in system-changing ideas to end poverty and inequitable development globally, and influenced engineering practice and education in Canada to bring a more global and sustainable development mindset in the mainstream.
He then took on the challenge of advancing open internet technologies globally as Director of Open Innovation Programs at Mozilla. In this role he led a variety of product and project teams to help the company realize “openness” as a business strategy. One of his highlights at Mozilla was the development of Common Voice, a project that mixed corporate collaboration with inspiring hundreds of thousands of language enthusiasts to contribute their voice to build the world’s largest open voice dataset across more than 50 languages. This is now used by globally leading technology companies to train speech recognition engines for their products.
Drawing from these and other experiences, George has impacted a number of other issues by serving as mentor, strategic advisor and consultant to several organizations, and through his writings and speaking engagements.
George is an Ashoka Fellow (2011), was awarded the Young Leaders Award by the Public Policy Forum (2007), named as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 (2005), and was awarded an Action Canada Fellowship (2004) on public policy. He is humbled to have received the Meritorious Service Cross (Civil) in addition to four honorary Doctorate degrees (University of Waterloo, McMaster University, University of Calgary and Queen’s University) along with a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo.
George’s life’s work sits at the confluence of organizational growth, technology and social change. He is at his best designing, growing and leading organizations and teams around powerful ideas. George takes pride in bridging perspectives, moving fluidly between the non-profit, business and government.
George is based in Toronto.