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I like knowing things and understanding how things work.
Sharing knowledge is my superpower.
I am a technology enthusiast, who knows enough to figure out how things can be made possible.

Lars Meyer

Thinking Skills

  • Marketing messaging
  • Creative team facilitation
  • Design thinking
  • Brand positioning
  • Brand persona
  • Customer journey
  • Graphic design
  • Typography
  • UX/UI analysis and design
  • Technology and usability generalist
  • Systems thinking
  • Business systems
  • Training and course design
  • Marketing automation
  • Exhibit design and visitor experience

Favourite Software Tools

  • Adobe Creative Suite
    • Illustrator
    • Photoshop
    • XD
    • Indesign (print publications)
  • Elementor (WordPress page builder)
  • Website/Landing page analysis and optimization
    • Unbounce (+ others)
    • Hotjar (+ others)
    • On-page split testing
  • FinalCut Pro (video editing)
  • SoundSudio
  • Notion (information management)

I love a good flowchart

"If I have to say so myself — I am this good..."

Branding (5/5)
★★★★★ 5/5
Problem analysis/solving (5/5)
★★★★★ 5/5
Creative collaboration and brainstorming (5/5)
★★★★★ 5/5
Training and course design (5/5)
★★★★★ 5/5
Graphic design (5/5)
★★★★★ 5/5
Page layout, design for print (5/5)
★★★★★ 5/5
Illustration (3.5/5)
★★★★★ 3.5/5
WordPress Page Builders (5/5)
★★★★★ 5/5
Photo editing (5/5)
★★★★★ 5/5
Video editing (3.5/5)
★★★★★ 3.5/5
Landing page design
★★★★★ 5/5
Sound editing (3/5)
★★★★★ 3/5

Academic positions

  • Landmark Worldwide (Landmark Education/Academy) Event Leader
  • Discovery Centre for Entrepreneurship, Certified Dreaming RoomTM Facilitator
  • Vancouver Film School: Foundation Visual Arts and Design, Faculty
    Student mentor/project advisor
    Courses: Pre-production, the creative process and project management
  • BCIT Computer Systems Technology program, Student Projects (ISSP) Mentor
  • BCIT: New Media Design & Web Development, Program Advisory Committee
  • Vancouver Community College, Multimedia Production, Program Advisory Committee 1998 – 2002

Professional Development and Training

  • Ontological Coaching Certification — Newfirld Networks
  • [Metonomy] Facilitators Training Intensive
  • Michael E. Gerber Companies: Certified Dreaming Room™ Facilitator
  • Landmark Education
  • Project Management: A Team Approach – EM Sciences
  • Managing Multiple Projects: PARK University Ent.

Professional and Academic Affiliations

  • AIGA — American Institute of graphic Artists
  • New Media BC – past member
  • Themed Attractions Association – past member
  • UBC Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC Lab) research partner, 2005

Professional Awards

  • Canadian e-Tourism Awards 2007, Best Innovation: metroCode at the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale
  • American Associations of Museums MUSE Award, Gold award winner 2006, for the VUEguide at MOA
  • Canadian New Media Awards, Finalist 2006, for the VUEguide at MOA
  • Yorkton Festival, Golden Sheaf Award, for Defining Canada Interactive (Monro Co./Lead interface designer)

Lectures and Conference Presentations

  • New Media BC/ MAGIC Lab Lecture Series Academic and Private Sector Collaboration Strategies.
  • Museums on the Web, Workshop, Using mobile devices as interpretive tools in the museum environment.
  • UBC’s Centre For Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education presentation of Museum learning using mobilemediating devices.
  • New Media Consortium (NMC): location triggered mobile multimedia
  • American Associations of Museums Annual Meeting, Handhelds on the Horizon: How Will They Change the Museum Experience.
  • Capilano College Guest Lecturer: Designing an interactive environment for themed attractions

Selected Clients and Credits:

Corporate Training and Interactive Systems:

  • Medical/Life Sciences: Abbott, BD, Bioness
  • Real Estate: Coldwell Banker, REA, Century 21, Remax, Keller Williams, Better Homes and Gardens
  • Sporting Goods/Outdoor: Eagle Claw, Mustad, VMC
  • Interpretive Systems: Acoustiguide

Science and Technology Museums:

  • Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
  • Scitec/Khobar Science Centre
  • The HR Macmillan Pacific Space Centre
  • The Odyssium Edmonton
  • Science World Vancouver
  • Science North (Sudbury, Ontario)
  • Calgary Space Port
  • UK National Space Centre
  • Las Vegas Desert Springs Reserve

Animal Themed Attractions:

  • Vancouver Aquarium
  • American Zoo and Aquarium Association
  • Seneca Park Zoo
  • Philadelphia Zoo
  • Mystic Aquarium
  • Alaska Sea Life Park

Cultural Themed Attractions and Museums

  • The Museum of Anthropology, UBC
  • MoMA
  • The Vancouver Sculpture Biennale
  • Granville Island
  • Nk’mip Desert Cultural Centre
  • Scitec, Khobar Science Centre, KSA
  • Denver Museum of Art
  • Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Center, Udvar K Hazy Centre
  • Huffman Prairie Flying Centre
  • The Alexandria Museum of Art
  • The HR Macmillan Pacific Space Centre
  • Las Vegas Springs Reserve
  • The Odyssium, Edmonton
  • Science World, Vancouver
  • Science North
  • Calgary Space Port
  • UK National Space Centre

Cultural Partners

  • The National Film Board
  • Department of Canadian Heritage
  • Telefilm Canada
  • Mobile Muse Research Network
  • Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
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The skill of the twenty-first century could be said to be the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn. Unlearning is required when the conversations we revert to no longer work, or the world has changed so completely that they are now holding us back. There is no right place to begin, and we may not know what to do or how to do it, but the pull is there to move what we see or imagine as possible into action.
Landmark Insights. Book 2.: Redefine What's Possible
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
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By defending your circumstances as they are right now, you are actually making a case for being where you are. Give it up.
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life by Gary John Bishop
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“Reality” is a phenomenon that arises in language. Language is both the ultimate reality and the medium through which reality is brought forth—there is no reality “per se,” no fixed reality. There’s only how we see it, how we say it is—it’s interpretation all the way down. It’s language—what we say (with and about others, ourselves, and the world at large) that constitutes who we are.
Landmark Insights. Book 1.: Live a Life You Love
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In simple terms, the language you use to describe your circumstances determines how you see, experience, and participate in them and dramatically affects how you deal with your life and confront problems both big and small.
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life by Gary John Bishop
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We construct realities and then forget we were the ones who constructed them. When our relationship with reality has a kind of “is-ness” or “fixed-ness” to it, it limits what’s possible and allows only for options like explaining, trying to fix, resisting, or accepting.
Landmark Insights. Book 2.: Redefine What's Possible
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"In Sanskrit, there is a word—vichara: to develop insight into how things are. And that insight sets you free. Not so much faith in a deity, not even extraordinary mystical experiences."
Swami Sarvapriyananda
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"Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences. While these states of mind are usually interpreted through the lens of one or another religious doctrine, we know that this is a mistake. Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience—self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light—constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work."
from "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion" by Sam Harris
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"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride."
Anthony Bourdain
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Reality is only a consensual hunch.
Lily Tomlin
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