Kelly Kornet | Curriculum Vitae

Professional Futurist and Design Researcher. Helping organizations generate forward-looking solutions.

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Curriculum Vitae

Kelly Kornet

Professional Futurist and Design Researcher

Qualifications

3 years of experience applying foresight and design thinking to organizations
2 year of design & innovation studio experience
Master of Design in Strategic Foresight & Innovation
Competent in design thinking & innovation methods and approaches
Creative, with the ability to elicit creativity from others in team settings

Select Experience

03/2017-Present Consultant, Kalypso (USA)

Foresight research – horizon scanning and scenario development
Workshop facilitation
System mapping

03/2015-03/2017 Designer & Researcher, KerrSmith Design (Toronto, ON)

Foresight research – horizon scanning and scenario development
Data visualization and information design
System mapping
Research for client-facing projects

03/2014-03/2015 Foresight & Design Researcher, AndSpace Consulting

Foresight research and process facilitation
Design research

12/2013-05/2015 Research Assistant, OCAD University (Toronto, ON)

Support faculty to reach research goals and design objectives
- Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group. Creation of design artifacts for Flourishing Business Model Canvas and process.
- Digital Governance. Three Horizons foresight process facilitation and graphic facilitation for project conference.
- DesignJam. Presenter and facilitator at various events and workshops on the topic of Design Thinking and Visual Thinking.

Education

2013-2015 Master of Design, Strategic Foresight and Innovation, OCAD University, Toronto

Focus: foresight and design

2009-2013 Hon. Bachelor of Arts, Design & Communications, University of Toronto jointly with Sheridan College

Certificate in Digital Communications (2013)

Select Public Speaking & Facilitation Experience

2015 Design Jam, Dangerous Ideas Festival. Centre for Social Innovation. Toronto. Co-facilitated workshop session

2015 People-friendly Cities, Urban Ecologies Conference, OCAD University. Toronto. Co-facilitated workshop session

2015 Causing an Effect, Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems. Turku, Finland. Presentation

2015 Causing an Effect, xFutures: Select work from the Strategic Foresight & Innovation Program, OCAD University. Toronto. Pecha Kucha presentation

2015 Mapping Mobility: Visual thinking & visual production, TrafficJam. MaRS Discovery District. Toronto. Co-facilitated workshop session

2015 Introduction to Futures Thinking, University of Toronto / Sheridan College. Oakville. Undergraduate class presentation

2015 Visual thinking & visual production, DesignJAM. OCAD University. Toronto. Co-facilitated workshop session

Research & Publications

12/2016 Hope in Uncertain Times. Futureando – Boletin informativo mensual de la World Future Society Capitulo Mexicano, A.C. Translated into Spanish by Alethia Berenice Montero Baena.

04/2015 Causing an Effect: Activists, Uncertainty and Images of the Future. Major Research Project submitted to OCAD University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Design degree in Strategic Foresight & Innovation.

Select Awards

2016 2nd Prize, Student Recognition, Association of Professional Futurists

2015 Strategic Foresight & Innovation Graduate Award, OCAD University

2013 Dr. Annie Smith Graduate Scholarship, Sheridan College

2012 Sheridan President’s Creative Challenge for Sustainability, Office for Sustainability

*2015 Nominee, Most Significant Futures Work, Association of Professional Futurists for Causing an Effect foresight exhibition

Organizations

2014-Present Association of Professional Futurists (Associate Member)

2015-Present World Futures Studies Federation (Associate Member)