Who We Are

Global Innovation & Skills Development Canada is a service design firm in the work & education field creating innovative, impactful, and sustainable solutions for institutions worldwide.

Our Story

A fresh voice in the Work & Education field, GISDC is a Toronto-based company formed in 2018 to bring a more modern, agile, and personalized perspective to an evolving world.

Founded in partnership with Seneca College and affiliated with Polytechnics across the country, our extensive network of resources, along with Canada’s unique multicultural landscape, truly set our programs apart.

Our Development Process

Inspiration > Ideation > Implementation

Our unique, human-centered approach allows us to cultivate highly effective, adaptable, and future-focused change around the globe.

Our People

Hadi Shaheen

Executive Director

Graduate Studies in Computer Science

MBA (UAlberta), MSc/Ph.D. Student in Strategy (Queen’s U)

Quinn de Vries

Director of Projects

Post Graduate Certificate in International Development

Post Graduate Certificate in Project Management

BA (Hons)- Spanish and History (Brock U)

Farrah Kamani

Education Project Manager

MA Curriculum, Teaching & Learning UofT

Program Management (PgMP) & E-Learning Instructional Design Certification B.S. in Political Science (Ryerson U).

Dustin Gamble

Interactive Designer & Developer

(AD), Web Design & Interactive Media (Humber)

(Hons) Diploma – Graphic Design (NC)

Leah de Vries

User Interface & Experience Designer

(AD), Web Design & Interactive Media

Diploma, Professional Photography

Diploma, Graphic Design

Our Core Values

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Excellence

We strive for excellence in the partnerships we establish and the quality of services we provide.

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Innovation

We are innovative in designing bold
solutions to meaningful problems.

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Human-Centered

We believe that people who face challenges are the ones who hold the key to the answers.

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Sustainability

We are driven to enrich our planet’s diverse cultural composition, and create a better world.

Peter F. Drucker

Managing Consultant

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Paulo Freire

Educator

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Oprah Winfrey

Media proprietor

Step out of the history that is holding you back.
Step into the new story you are willing to create.

John Dewey

Philosopher / Educator

Education is a social process; education is growth.