Insights on Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Leadership, Innovation, and the Future of Work

We celebrate creativity as the spark behind innovation, progress, and human achievement. But let’s be honest... it doesn’t always flow freely. We all too often find ourselves blocked, stuck, or silencing our own ideas before they ever leave the page. Why? Because creativity has enemies. And they’re sneaky!

It turns out, creativity behaves a lot like a muscle. Use it, and it grows. Ignore it, and it gets a little flabby. But the beautiful part? Even 15 minutes a day can rewire how you think, how you problem-solve, and how you see the world around you.

Let’s be honest... When most people hear the word statistics, they think of long-forgotten math classes, blurry chalkboards, and professors who spoke in Greek — literally and figuratively. If you loved statistics in school, congratulations... You’re a unicorn! If you hated it, then you are in good company.

At RPM-Academy, we believe that success in the "future of work" no longer belongs to the busiest, but to the best coordinators of intelligence—human and artificial.

Input → Process → Output is a deceptively powerful model. It is a simple but effective way of depicting the chain of causality that describes, I think, all phenomena. Continuous improvement specialists rely on this model... our starting point for assessing the current state and informing the development of a future state, whether product or service. But what if we applied that same model to something even more profound: the development of human potential?

In 2022, more than 5 million people in Canada met the diagnostic criteria for a mood, anxiety or substance use disorder, with the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders increasing substantially over the previous 10 years.

Once upon a time, the British Cycling Team was the laughingstock of the competitive cycling world. One Olympic gold medal in nearly a century.