The Wonder Wall: Leading Creative Schools and Organizations in an Age of Complexity

About Jane DalyPeter Gamwell

Born in Liverpool England Peter is the co-author with Jane Daly of The Wonder Wall: Leading Creative Schools and Organizations in an Age of Complexity 2017 Corwin foreword by Sir Ken Robinson; and Thinker Learner Dreamer Doer: Innovative Pedagogies for Cultivating Every Students Potential April 2022 Corwin fore­word by Yong Zhao. An insightful entertaining and knowledgeable speaker presenter and consultant Peter brings decades of academic research experience and insightful knowledge gleaned from his award-winning career as a teacher and administrator at all levels of the education system. Through his presentations workshops books YouTube channel and website he explores learning leadership and innovation and their impact on individual and organizational health and culture. Peter has worked across Canada and throughout many parts of the world showing students educators administrators schools districts com­panies and policy makers how to foster that vibrancy in their own organizations. Through the course of his work and research Peter has captured the voices of hundreds of students and adults alike video clips that provide unique and insightful glimpses into the lived world of our classrooms schools and organizations. These clips also provide criti­cal insight as to how we might imagine our learning cultures in a way that reawakens the brilliance that lies in all of us with a central focus on individual group and organizational well-being. An adjunct professor with the University of Ottawa Peter has been the recipient of many awards throughout his forty-year career. In 2013 he was awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Ontario Public Supervisory Officers Association for the work he led in Learning Leadership and Creativity with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. In 2015 he was awarded the Global Distinguished Leadership Award by the Alberta Teachers Association. In 2020 he cofounded the Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity @CNIC which holds monthly IdeaJams on a wide range of topicsand which evoke lots of lively interactive conversation. Although Janes career took her into the marketing and communications world she was always fascinated by the field of education and the seeds of potential in every individualespecially when one of her own sons had difficulty reading and thus became a problem to be solved. She has worked on numerous communications projects for educational institutions and has taught at the college level. She has often observed the chal­lenges and opportunities that both educational organizations and businesses share when it comes to organizational learning. Jane was happy to join Peter Gamwell as coauthor for The Wonder Wall: Leading Creative Schools and Organizations in an Age of Complexity and again with Thinker Learner Dreamer Doer: Innovative Pedagogies for Cultivating Every Students Potential. Jane freelances as a communications strategist and commercial writer by day and enjoys fiction writing by night as well as spending time with her husband John and their kids and grandkids at the small MacLarens Landing beach community outside of Ottawa Ontario Canada.