Downstream on Loose Parts with Ariella Lukach

By Michelle Schurter

Michelle Schurter is a strategic management consultant who helps clients unpack complex challenges and co-create innovative solutions around workforce challenges. Michelle has a unique blend of experience in front-line child and family practice, along with leadership and economic development roles. Michelle is known as a 'connector extraordinaire', and often called a breath of fresh air with her dynamic approach. If not working with 5 or 6 clients on a community collaboration, you will find Michelle delivering an 'aha' keynote as Millennial Strategist, bringing to life the multigenerational workforce!

What on earth does an Innovation Park have to do with Early Learning environments? Back up a minute! What is an Innovation Park? And how does the concept and practice of “Loose Parts” connect both innovation parks and early learning environments?

Ariella Lukach is a leader in the growth and development of ecosystems, communities, organizations, and individuals. She is passionate about building collaborative communities with a shared vision and targets, whether between people in an organization or between multiple organizations. Ariella’s work prioritizes people, impact, feasibility, actionability, and sustainability.

Ariella designs strategies to build diverse, inclusive, and sustainable plans. She fleshes out concepts and transforms them into feasible plans using evidence-based strategies, tactics, and best practices. Passionate about creating meaningful impact, she is guided by moving beyond activities and outputs to focus on impacts and results. With a firm belief in the power of collaboration and place-making, Ariella helps envision what is possible beyond an individual organization and location.

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Michelle Schurter

Michelle Schurter is a strategic management consultant who helps clients unpack complex challenges and co-create innovative solutions around workforce challenges. Michelle has a unique blend of experience in front-line child and family practice, along with leadership and economic development roles. Michelle is known as a 'connector extraordinaire', and often called a breath of fresh air with her dynamic approach. If not working with 5 or 6 clients on a community collaboration, you will find Michelle delivering an 'aha' keynote as Millennial Strategist, bringing to life the multigenerational workforce!

Stephen Hurley

Chief Catalyst voicEd Radio Canada

Stephen Hurley has spent nearly 40 years as an educator. He has experience as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, a teacher educator and a policy observer. As the founder and chief catalyst at voicEd Radio, Hurley is passionate about nurturing stronger relationships between education research, practice and policy.