The Next North American Community
How housing, infrastructure, technology, capital, and governance must converge to create future-ready places — and what leaders can do now to build for the next generation.
Speaking
Speaking on the future of communities, housing, and civic imagination.
Available for keynotes, panels, podcasts, university lectures, and advisory engagements. Audiences include urban planners, real estate developers, civic leaders, and design professionals.
Speaking Topics
Six Topics. One Thread.
The Housing Crisis Is a Delivery Crisis
Why affordability cannot be solved by design, policy, or capital alone — and what an integrated delivery model for truly affordable communities looks like.
Designing for Belonging
How public space, parks, play, culture, and human experience shape stronger, more resilient communities — and why belonging must be designed, not assumed.
From Place-Making to Place-Building
Why the future belongs to those who can connect vision with disciplined execution — and how to close the gap between a compelling plan and a buildable community.
Immigrant Imagination & City-Building
How cross-cultural experience reshapes the way we design and build communities — and why the cities that embrace immigrant leadership are building better places.
The Transformative Power of Play
An evolved version of the 2013 TEDx talk — connecting design, emerging technology, children, public life, and community wellbeing into a unified theory of place.
Past Appearances
Selected Speaking & Jury Roles
"The Transformative Power of Play" — TEDxManitoba
National Urban Design Awards — Jury Member & Roundtable Moderator
Featured Speaker — Alberta Association of Landscape Architects
Speaking Inquiry
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