To introduce Ken Steele to your audience or group, feel free to pull a few salient details from his biography page or video (and edit it way down), or try this shorter version:

Ken Steele has become Canada’s best-known higher ed futurist, brand strategist, trendspotter, and evangelist for innovation – but he took a roundabout path to get there. After years as an award-winning Shakespeare scholar and instructor, Ken left the University of Toronto a “lapsed academic,” and – like so many English majors – wound up in the world of marketing. In 2004 he conceived and co-founded a market research company focused on higher ed, Academica Group, guided the evolution of North America’s largest student consumer studies, and created a daily newsletter for the sector that grew to 30,000 subscribers. He wrote hundreds of blogs, papers and reports, co-authored Canada’s first book on Strategic Enrolment Management, and began delivering conference keynotes and board retreats that became the focus of his next company, Eduvation Inc.

At Eduvation, Ken tracks the sector in Canada and around the world in real time, spotting the emerging trends and bright ideas that will shape the future. Ken writes a daily blog, a weekly newsletter, produces a video podcast, and facilitates multiple overlapping national communities of practice. You can tap into all of it on Ken’s virtual community, Eduvation Circles.