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All Things DesignHow to Build Trust, Secure Funding & Prove Design’s Value in Business | Bonnie Mooney
In this episode, Bonnie Mooney, Head of Design at McMillan Shakespeare, shares her journey from hospitality to leading design in large enterprise environments. We dive deep into how designers can bridge the gap between customer needs and business goals. Bonnie discusses how to earn trust, secure funding, and prove design’s strategic value — even in high-stakes environments. Plus, insights into building a mixed team, aligning design with business needs, and leading teams to think like business leaders.
🔑 Key Themes
Bridging business goals with customer outcomes
Earning tru...2025-06-2353 minAll Things DesignHow to Build Trust, Secure Funding & Prove Design’s Value in Business | Bonnie Mooney
In this episode, Bonnie Mooney, Head of Design at McMillan Shakespeare, shares her journey from hospitality to leading design in large enterprise environments. We dive deep into how designers can bridge the gap between customer needs and business goals. Bonnie discusses how to earn trust, secure funding, and prove design’s strategic value — even in high-stakes environments. Plus, insights into building a mixed team, aligning design with business needs, and leading teams to think like business leaders.
🔑 Key Themes
Bridging business goals with customer outcomes
Earning tru...2025-06-2353 min
The VerbGeorge Szirtes, Cecilia Knapp, Lisa Knapp, Gerry Diver, Rishi DastidarIan McMillan's guests are George Szirtes, Cecilia Knapp, Lisa Knapp, Gerry Diver and Rishi Dastidar.The beauty of a swimming pool seen from the air, banks that fly up and out of small towns never to return, the poetry of single objects seen from a train window, and the miniature brilliance of poetry pamphlets - all in this week's edition of The Verb. It can be a shock when banks leave our high streets - poet George Szirtes presents a brand new commission for The Verb inspired by that experience, and reads work from his 2004...2025-02-1642 min
The Education Gadfly Show#923: Debating school funding inequities, with Alex SpurrierOn this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Alex Spurrier, an associate partner at Bellwether, joins Mike and David to discuss whether schools in low-income neighborhoods receive less funding than their affluent counterparts. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber examines a new study investigating state finance reforms that secure lasting budget increases for districts.Recommended content: Alex Spurrier, Bonnie O’Keefe, and Biko McMillan, “Leveling the landscape: An analysis of K–12 funding inequities within metro areas,” Bellwether (May 2024). "Low- and high-income schools now receive equal funding” —Adam Tyner, Fordham Institute“Doing educational equity right: School finance” —M...2024-06-0529 min
Unitarian Church of Edmonton (UCE)“Carols and Lessons 2023 – The Mystery of Silence and Darkness”- Chorealis Dec 3, 2023Order of Service
Chimes
Greeting, Land Acknowledgement, and Announcements
Prelude “The Dark’-Chorealis
Opening Words “In This Spirit of Searching” by Rev. Joan Javier-Duval, reader: Yvonne Mireau
Chalice Lighting “A Chalice Lighting for the Dark and the Light” by Frances Koziar, reader: Robert Begg
Lighting the Advent Candles “Liturgy for the Lighting of the Advent Candles” by Rev. Rosemary Morrison, reader: Jan McMillan
Reading “Solstice” by Gary Kowalski, reader: Alec Moorji
Choral Response “Solstice Night” - Chorealis
Sharing Our Abundance (Ministerial Fund)
Hymn 402 “From You I Receive”
Hymn 55 “Dark of Winter”
Reading “Winter's Wisdom” by Jeanne Mackey, reader: Ilara Stefaniuk-Gaudet
“Give Me a Silent Night”- Chorealis
Ref...2023-12-051h 14
Focus Forward: An Executive Function PodcastEp 32: College Admissions Made Simple: An Executive Function Approach to Success in CollegeApplying for college can feel like a monumental, overwhelming task - and that’s because it is! There are so many deadlines, details, and steps that could be missed even by someone with fantastic Executive Function skills - but does it have to be? And then, once you get there, how do you set yourself up for success as a college student with EF challenges? I wondered how I could use the platform of Focus Forward to help those of you out there find some resources and strategies to make applying and going to college a little easier. Luckily, my...2023-11-0157 min
Why Don't We Talk About This?Talking about Youth Empowerment w/ Bonnie Massey, LMSWSend us a textBonnie and I discuss themes surrounding ways that our youth can impact change, her work with youth in schools over the years and the change that she and her students were able to affect right here in the Bronx! Guest BioBonnie Massey is a Bronx social worker, youth developer, educator, and restorative justice practitioner, who has been working with young people in NYC school settings for 20 years. Bonnie is passionate about building therapeutic, educational, and community experiences that drive personal, social, and political change.S...2023-05-2346 min