Creative Consultancy | ISM Creative

A creative consultancy turning early concepts into scalable innovations

From early stage startups to mature organizations innovating internally, we specialize in end-to-end product and organizational development.

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Affiliations

Values-aligned networks we are part of to continue discovering, launching, and supporting impact innovations.

Our Services

We harness the power of Arts & Culture to drive innovation in any sector through our comprehensive creative problem-solving methodology.

Highlighted Projects

Projects we have helped launch across sectors

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Member Incubator

Comprised of 4,200 angel investors, 50 incubators and accelerators, and 45 angel groups, our members have invested $1.38 billion into 2,000 entrepreneurial companies. In all regions of Canada, we work to mobilize angel capital so that entrepreneurs have the financial resources they need to scale and grow world-class companies.

Associate Member

Accelerating the success of B.C. and Canadian companies by solving real societal problems through the development, deployment, and scaling of Canadian-made digital technologies, and unlocking the power of data-driven innovation.

Associate Member

An industry-led, national cluster growing the ocean economy in a digital, sustainable, and inclusive way, accelerating the development and commercialization of globally-relevant ocean solutions, and advancing Canada’s position as a global leader in the ocean.

Associate Member

Accelerating the integration of AI across business sectors, Scale AI funds AI initiatives under three classifications: industry-led projects, training, and our Acceleration program. Scale AI believes now is the time to take AI out of the lab and into the real world.

Swiss Innovation Fest

Service Design, Community Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Brand Development

A public diplomacy initiative to enrich innovation between Switzerland and Western Canada through community building among Consulates and a variety of organizations across sectors.

IWAA

Brand Development

IWAA facilitates equal employment opportunities for Individuals With All Abilities by bridging job seekers, government organizations, and employers. We established the branding and messaging to help them realize this mission.

EsVedra Wellness VR

Market Research, Service Design, UX UI Design, Virtual Reality

We have partnered with EsVedra to develop immersive VR wellness experiences that transport the viewer into guided journeys around the world with wellness practitioners in local communities.

BIPOC Foundation

Strategy Design, Brand Development, Marketing, Consulting

As a strategic and acceleration partner, we are helping deliver on a federal mandate to diversify the Western Canadian economy - starting by advancing 300 Black-led businesses by 2025.

Our Collaborators

Organizations we have worked with to launch new initiatives

Scott Mallory

Founder

Director of Design

Product Manager

Nasim Farsani

Senior Consultant

UX Researcher

Service Design

Jasmin A. Rehmani

Senior Consultant

Business Strategy

Business Development

Our Team

Coming together from arts, business, international relations, and design thinking to drive social innovation.

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We see the difference...everything ISM puts their hands on.

- BIPOC Foundation

Features

Froese Law partners with ISM Creative to Accelerate Canada’s Innovation Ecosystem

Combining Froese Law’s legal and grant funding expertise with ISM’s expansive incubator network and creative vision, this partnership will help Canada’s most innovative companies access government grant funding and legal support.

FROESE LAW | Apr 4, 2024

V-Train Finalized Key Partnerships and Grant to Develop VR-based Ethics & Compliance Training

V-TRAIN partnered with ISM Arts & Culture to develop a prototyping strategy for first-of-its-kind ethics and compliance training experiences in VR, leading to a Mitacs funded ($45K) collaboration with Emily Carr University of Art + Design to build the prototype.

Empowered Startups | Nov 2021

Lethbridge Organization Supporting Black-led Businesses with Help of Federal Funding

The BIPOC Foundation in Lethbridge has received $2.6 million of $5.4 in federal funding through Prairies Economic Development Canada. ISM Arts & Culture partnered to deliver its flagship program, the Black Founders Hub accelerator.

Global News | Feb 2022

The Exhibition Invisible Opens at New Media Gallery

Part of the inaugural Innovation Fest in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland, powered by ISM Arts & Culture, the exhibition features artworks by Semiconductor and Yunchul Kim, former CERN artists in residence, Ralf Baecker and Richard Vijgen that capture, reveal and imagine the unseen processes constantly at work in the world around us.

Arts at CERN | June 2022

This New West Show Has People Wondering: Is it Art or Science?

If you thought physics was dry, New Media Gallery’s Indivisible show in New Westminster (part of the Innovation Fest in partnership with ISM and the Consulate General of Switzerland) might change your opinion. A group of four artists have turned cosmic particles and radio waves into interesting artwork. Here's how differently a scientist and an art expert saw it.

New Westminster Record | Aug 2022

BOMA Pitch Competitors ‘Dreamed Up A Future You Would Not Believe’

A conversation with Boma ECU Founder Scott Mallory, Jr.

Boma Global | Feb 2020

New Media Project Re-Envisions ISAC-II Experimental Hall In 3D

TRIUMF joins a growing number of physics laboratories leveraging 3D photography and scanning technology to reimagine science communications in the virtual.

TRIUMF Lab | June 2020

Scott Mallory Selected For Top 100 Leaders In Education Award

Scott Mallory, Jr. is selected to receive the Top 100 Leaders In Education award at the 2020 Global Forum for Education and Learning at MGM Grand, Las Vegas.