As the corporate founder and incubator of One World Wholeness (“OWW”) we believe that many challenges, opportunities and solutions exist in the intersections of integrative wholeness, and its potential to transform and impact individuals, communities and institutions.
With jouleWatt’s core framework of innovating whole capital, by integrating financial, human, intellectual, social and soulful impact capital with our clients and partners, it is a natural extension to incubate OWW. We are exclusively licensing our strategic frameworks to OWW, as a further commitment to its success and its journey towards wholeness and being a true multi-sector, multi-national co-operative entity.
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jouleWatt recognizes that there are increasingly chaotic, complex and competitive innovation challenges in the traditional for-profit, non-profit, government and educational sectors. We offer alternative integrated human innovation solutions, that develops collective visions, which fosters coherence and cohesion in the development of sustainable innovation growth, cultures, and solutions.
We looks at client and partner innovation challenges and opportunities through the lens of "innovating whole capital". We specialize in human innovation which drives business, social and technology innovation.
We often partner with our clients in bespoke solutions which mutually balance risks and rewards. We view fees as a positive four letter word that enables mutual benefits and opportunities through the lens of human innovation. We often partner with our clients, as we develop and embrace collective visions.
Our future is driven by creating innovative emerging conceptual frameworks, strategic frameworks, and tools that help us read and apply our continuous learning about social realities in our chaotic and complex world. Our aspiration is to engage in ever-widening circles of discourse and action-oriented solutions around "Our Next Ages", which embraces diversity and creates individual, community and institutional agency around collective visions, beyond our current carbon and digital age, in the knowledge economy.
JouleWatt and its predecessor firms were founded by Johann Wong, in 1984 in Toronto, Canada. Our roots are in corporate finance and alternative investment solutions. Corporate finance services have included private placements, reverse-mergers, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and restructurings. Alternative investments services have been in the venture capital, hedge funds, private equity and real estate sectors. Clients and projects have ranged from small to mid-market opportunities, primarily in the financial services, technology and real estate sectors.
past work
corporate incubator
Kansas City, Missouri. A private $4B 100 year old US consumer discretionary company was seeing their core demographic customer base slowly decline and not being aggressively replaced with more digitally savvy millennial customers. Working with the global head of innovation, we advised on the internal funding and roll-out of their corporate innovation-led incubator and then acted as an entrepreneur-in-residence to advise on the roll-out of a portfolio of internal start-ups. A major corporate realignment saw the various opportunities spun-off and grow within their new divisions.
non-profit
Greensboro, North Carolina. A non-profit with over $100M in revenue and a recognized global provider of executive leadership programs, required an aggressive innovation-led growth strategy, to defend and grow it's market share against a growing number of global for-profit consulting and technology firms that targeted its market space. Working with senior managers, we advised in supporting their new innovation growth strategy. By using a people, portfolio and process framework that integrates financial, human, intellectual, social and soulful capital, we were able to frame an innovation growth strategy. Client located in Greensboro, North Carolina.
developer
Baltimore, Maryland. A 40+ year old private property developer specializing in mixed-use urban re-development, utilizing city, state and federal tax credits and subsidies, had developed over 17 million sq. ft of adaptive reuse opportunities. After losing significant value and restructuring in 2009, they created a pipeline of over 6.7 M sq. ft. of mixed-use urban re-development opportunities, with over $1.5B in total debt, equity and tax subsidy capital requirements. We advised on creating an innovation growth strategy at the intersections of: i) institutional impact investing; ii) urban adaptive re-use of mixed-use neighborhood transformations; iii) innovation districts; and iv) the new urban crises impacting marginal income citizens in urban centers. By using a people, portfolio and process framework that integrates financial, human, intellectual and social capital, we framed an innovation growth strategy, to develop their long term impact investing goals.
vocational college
Berkeley, California. A private non-profit 30+ year old vocational college, which is a nationally recognized innovative pioneer in the training of culinary food and nutrition professionals was challenged by increasing competition and the absence of federal accreditation to support student loan requests. Acting as a trusted advisor to the founder and the board of directors we structured and negotiated the divestiture of their vocational school, the restructuring of the lease of its primary location with the city government and the design and planning of its new strategic plan and an integrative wellness workplace and community education social enterprise.
private school
London, Ontario An alternative private school moved from a small city to a larger urban city as part of its growth strategy and was spun out of its for-profit parent, as stand-alone non-profit entity. The growth strategy could not be sustained relative to the significant cost structure brought on by a much larger property and the slower growth in international students. Acting as a trusted advisor and interim CFO to the founder, the property was ultimately sold, the school successfully moved back to its original smaller city and is thriving in its original building. The culture of the organization required a dynamic integration of financial, human, intellectual, social and soulful capital in order to navigate a difficult shift back to its core focus.
workshops
North America. Human Innovation programs that integrates the use of CharacterYAQ , Innovation Strengths Preference Indicators, and culture assessments with our frameworks to explore and focus on the human dynamics that drive innovation on individual and team levels.