Colby Stuart

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Founder, Chairperson at Kids 2020 Foundation
Founding Board Member at The Institute for Collaboration Creativity & Culture (IFCCC)
Creative Director at QUANTUM BRANDS BV

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Colby Stuart’s Summary

Built and developed a creative organization and sold it into global network.

Grew business through network development in 86 countries.

Using the brand as a creative tool to involve people in building strategy to generate capital on four value levels: human capital, social capital, creative capital and financial capital.

Bringing strategies to life by unifying people, purpose and practices into communication campaigns that create the opportunities that generate value streams.

Identifying brand opportunities (new markets, new products and services, new ways of doing things)

Building networked brand value (key opportunities for an integrated customer-facing organization; brand equity)

Capturing the pulse of the business in video scenarios.

Coaching and counseling leaders to develop coping strategies - building corporate consciousness.

Leading innovation practices, tapping resources to create innovative concepts that cross disciplines and open new revenue streams, coaching evolutionary leadership, building dynamic network structures, building on technology-enabled communication practices, enabling culture to emerge from collaboration and creativity by optimizing the potential of social media to learn how to build new business models.

Squidoo lenses:
Who is Colby Stuart & what is she doing? www.squidoo.com/ColbyStuart
What makes us creative at work? www.squidoo.com/InnovationPractices
How 2 connect using social media www.squidoo.com/SocialMedia
The Evolutionary Brand Called M.E. - My Emergence www.squidoo.com/BrandMe
Sustainable Futures www.squidoo.com/SustainableFutures

Colby Stuart’s Specialties:

concept dev't; int’l business dev’t; managing creative people & processes; branding, identity & design; building customer facing organizations; building prototypes; developing proprietary tools; managing cultural convergence and digital technology through mergers or growth; developing visions and strategies; coaching people in processes needed to start, grow and sell a successful company; visualizing the value and story of organizational opportunities through film and photography

Colby Stuart’s Experience

Founder, Chairperson

Kids 2020 Foundation

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Kids 2020: Visions & Strategies for a Preferred Future - vehicle for socially responsible investment with a clear commitment to a values-based, sustainable future

Prototype being developed at the Koning Willem 1 College in Den Bosch, The Netherlands.

Vision: Create a future of conscious, responsible, healthy, educated, contributing citizens

Purpose:
1. Learning : Put a world-changing programme into practice giving children the tools & frameworks to think constructively in a systematic way & make values-based choices.
2. Research: How children unite, participate, learn & prosper together
3. Policy: Put the health, education & welfare of a child as a sustainability strategy at the heart of every government policy in the world
4. New Value System: 4 capital levels

Mission: Enable children to develop vision, knowledge and tools to unite and prosper.
Founding Board Member

The Institute for Collaboration Creativity & Culture (IFCCC)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Think Tanks industry)

March 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

Focused on building human, social, creative, and financial capital.
* establishing a "think and do" tank in The Netherlands as a center of operations
* leading the conversation locally and globally about innovation and culture
* investing in the development of people and proprietary tools and research
* establishing centers of innovative practice inside organizations and in countries around the world by cross-fertilizing learning from micro-cultures into more global and macro-economic practices
* using cross-media and collaborative platforms
* prototyping concepts and ideas, relationships that foster human potential, and tools that support innovation and cultural development through collaboration
* developing and proving new business models
Creative Director

QUANTUM BRANDS BV

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

June 1998 — Present (11 years 8 months)

Identity, brands & concepts - their human organization, creativity & design. Collaboration, creativity and culture. Networking relationships to identify growth opportunities. Creating communication campaigns that bring strategies to life. Coaching CEOs to develop personal strategies for coping with their business.

• APPLIED CONNECTIVE DYNAMICS (ACD) - systematic methodology for unifying elements into dynamic value models

• NETWORKS OF MEANING - visual model communicating meaning without language barriers.

• Evolutionary BRAND CALLED M.E. (My Emergence) - values based, personal development program in context of teams and organizations.

• KIDS 2020 - global learning & research program enabling children to identify their visions and strategies for a preferred future and how to bring them to life, promoting long term collaboration among children across borders.

• IdeaLogistics - process for negotiating an idea or concept through an organizational framework

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Colby Stuart’s Interests:

Coaching people to develop an integrated strategy for personal and professional growth; writing; painting; visualizing concepts through photography and film-making; yoga; study of consciousness; adventure travel; SCUBA diving;

Colby Stuart’s Groups:

Founder Kids 2020 Foundation - their Visions & Strategies for a Preferred Future

Founder Sustainable Futures Foundation CIC in UK

Founded a business development group - The Dutch Connection - based on creativity and collaboration in cross cultural environments that focuses on growing innovation practices. Dutch Connection evolved into IFCCC - The Institute for Collaboration Creativity & Culture