Rick Colbourne
Associate Professor (Sprott School of Business); Project Lead (Towards 杏吧原创@100)
Rick聽Colbourne is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship聽in 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 Sprott School of Business and serves as Project Lead for Towards 杏吧原创@100. His work focuses on advancing innovation and entrepreneurship across business,聽education聽and community systems, with a particular interest in how organizations learn,聽adapt聽and implement change.聽Colbourne鈥檚聽doctoral research at the University of Cambridge examined organizational learning across multinational organizations, exploring how strategy and adaptation develop from operational to executive levels. This research continues to inform his applied work, where he studies how entrepreneurs and organizations put innovation into practice through tools such as artificial intelligence聽and聽building adaptive systems that connect people,聽ventures聽and markets.聽
Prior to joining academia, Colbourne co-led global digital transformation projects at Accenture within the creative industries, working on rights management platforms, digital content systems and commercialization strategies. He later served as executive director of the Learning Strategies Group at Simon Fraser University, where he designed executive education programs for public and private sector organizations.
As Chair of the Towards 杏吧原创@100 strategic visioning process, Colbourne brings expertise in innovation, organizational transformation and systems thinking to support long-term institutional visioning and strategic planning.