I have put the online versions of my 3-hour Intro to Project Management workshop, my 1-hour Introduction to Patents, and my 2-hour Financial toolkit for entrepreneurs up for all to try.

Most innovation training stops at idea generation. That is not enough.
In May 2026. I delivered "Intrapreneurship in Action", a 4-session, 12-hour, team-based workshop with 70 students focused on moving from problem to execution.
Teams worked on real-life issues and built their way through:
• Root-cause analysis
• Solution framing
• Business plans
• Pitches
• Project execution plans
The goal was simple: help participants think and act like intrapreneurs — people who can identify the right problem, make a credible case, win support, and deliver.
If your company is trying to build stronger internal capabilities in innovation, problem-solving, or project execution, let’s talk.

I have been teaching at UofT for the last 10 years (since September 2016), at the IMI undergraduate and MBiotech levels, and I was promoted to a Sessional Lecturer II in December 2023. My courses have included:
- HMB301 - Biotechnology: the Science of Business and the Business of Science
- IMI302 - Business plans and project management (ongoing)
- BTC1820 - Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnology (ongoing)
- BTC1710 - Biomaterials and Proteins (ongoing)
- BTC1720 - Biomaterials lab
- IMI2003 - Project Management (ongoing)
- IMI3001/3003  - Biocommercialization practicum (co-teach)
- BTC1860 - GAMBiT - Biologics and clinical trials (co-teach) (ongoing)
- BTC1600/1610 - Bioseminar series
- Project Management workshop (The agenda is a Gantt Chart!)

Between January 2021 - June 2022, I served as the Director of the ICUBE entrepreneurship accelerator which is part of IMI at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and one of the 12 accelerators at UofT.

I completed an interesting Coursera MOOC entitled Model Thinking, covering such topics as tipping points, Markov processes, Colonel Blotto games, auctions and replicator dynamics and am now enrolled in one on Machine Learning by Andrew Ng of Stanford.

I just finished some excellent books that detail the entrepreneurial spirit: Invention: A Life by James Dyson (2021), The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (2015) and Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011). Recommended reading for all entrepreneurs!!! For one of my courses, I have each student read a book about an entrepreneur, so now I have a list of their recommendations, including Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (2016), It's about damn time by Arlan Hamilton (2020) and Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (2017). 

In September 2015, the UofT Engineering student entrepreneurs I was mentoring as part of this summer's Entrepreneurship Hatchery program gave a great presentation at Demo Day on their "indoor GPS" system (Click here for the video). In 2016, I mentored another team (re:active) developing a motion-capture system that provides feedback during exercise. In 2017, I mentored a team developing an online platform for hairstylists. Between 2018 and 2021, the teams that I mentored were involved in saliva metabolomics, closed-circuit TV ads, a symptom tracker to aid patient-doctor discussions and deep-sea mining.
 
I went to Kevin Ashton's book launch of "How to Fly a Horse" at Rotman, UofT. His presentation was great, so I'm looking forward to reading his book, which is about creation, invention and discovery. It's not a spark, but an organized, sometimes painful series of learnings and iterations.

I gave a TEDx presentation on Creative Techniques at McMaster University on March 8th, 2015.  
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I'm also reading Value Proposition Design and The Innovation Paradox, both of which are excellent.

Some of my blogs:
MVP: Minimum Viable Product Revisited                                           18/Jun/2026
Beyond the Business Plan: The Best Evolving Plan Available             1/May/2026
The Jigsaw Puzzle of Planning and Execution                                       5/Jun/2025
Corporations can benefit from VC thinking                                         20/Jun/2024
Roger Martin: 4 fresh strategic concepts.                                              5/May/2024
Scenario planning, simulation, sensitivity analysis and innovation   22/Apr/2018
It's Crucial To Determine Who Your TRUE Customers Are                30/Aug/2016
The Factors that Influence an Investment Decision                           16/Jul/2016
Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies + Scenarios = RAIDS   23/Jun/2016
RISK: Identification, Assessment and Contingency Planning             31/May/2016                            Establishing Ownership, IP rights and Governance                            20/Apr/2016
Listening to the Voice of the Customer                                               23/Mar/2016
​How Do I Protect My App From Competitors                                      26/Feb/2016
Innovation Positivity                                                                                07/Jan/2016

Retweeted an excellent legal review of trademarks and copyrights by Brian J. Meli

Website: http://mjskok.com  Michael J. Skok's website includes an excellent section of Startup Secrets. His posts are interesting as are his photos.

Quote: "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower," 
              Steve Jobs of Apple (1955-2011)
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