2025-04-10

April 10 (the second Thursday of the month) is the 130th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. This will be an online session. The registration (in advance) is at: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/INVPwr5OQfyYB57Grxl_Iw .

This session is also announced at https://guild.host/events/designing-choices-a-8f7rfq

Designing Choices: A conversation with Jordan Ostapchuk on Capital Design & Design Education 

Are you making choices or decisions?” A key tension and theme that Jordan Ostapchuk has been investigating throughout his professional and academic pursuits.

In this session, we’ll have a fire-side chat with Jordan to learn about his education journey from graduating from the SFI program at OCADU to completing his PhD at Institute of Design at IIT. We’ll learn about how Jordan weaves his professional experiences in management and infrastructure investment into his design scholarship. We'll also discuss the ways systems thinking shows up in 'Capital Design', which is the focus of Jordan's dissertation and his professional work.

Discussant

Jordan Ostapchuk advises institutional investors and capital allocators on strategic choice-making.

He spent a decade at OMERS, a $130B+ pension plan, where he led strategy, innovation, and communication functions across Infrastructure, Pensions, and Real Estate. Most recently, he led OMERS Infrastructure's investment strategy function. He started his career as a Consultant at Deloitte. 

Jordan has a PhD from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology on the role of design in institutional capital allocation, which created the field of Capital Design. Jordan also has an M.A. from the University of Southern California and an M.Des. in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from OCAD University.

https://www.jordanostapchuk.com/

Venue & Registration

Suggested pre-readings / audio / video

Agenda

Post-meeting artifacts

Bloggers are encouraged to write about their learning and experiences at the meeting. Links will be added to this page.