A Hybrid Creative Agency and Consultancy
We help you plan and cost outstanding ideas. When needed, we bring in partners — maybe one, maybe one hundred — from globally renowned experts to local volunteers.
Creative events, immersive experiences, a pithy brochure, a bestselling book, a little workshop or a whole new school – no idea is too big or too small to warrant a creative approach to communicating science.
Global Partners in Science Communication
Our agency builds the team you need, combining hands-on coordination from the principals with a global network of science communication leaders.
✔️ Training, Coaching & Workshops
✔️ Strategic Consulting
✔️ Experience Design
✔️ Branded Content
A WORLD ENRICHED WITH SCIENCE
Purpose
Science Makes the World Safer
Science is a way of knowing that uses the rigour of methodology to understand the world and make predictions. This predictive capacity allows scientists to develop processes and products that make life safer and reduce suffering. Its power to do good lies in the thoughtful application of science.
Science is Specialized and Takes Skill to Communicate Well
As science has become more specialized, so too has its language and detail. But this is not the root of the stickiest communication challenges. The bigger issue is this: it’s hard to remember how you viewed the world before you studied science. The first step is to find common ground on which a science story can be built.
Creativity is Required!
Our daily lives are rich with information and visuals, making it difficult to capture and hold attention in today’s saturated media landscape. Science cannot speak for itself. Data cannot speak for itself. Creativity and storytelling are required.
Audiences Deserve Respect
An audience is not a blank slate to be filled with scientific facts. They already have thoughts about your area of science — some informed, some not — and they want to be engaged in something closer to a conversation, even when they are being entertained. They bring to that conversation the sum of beliefs and experiences shaped by their own unique lives. If you are truly interested in dialogue, respect that.
TEAM AND PARTNERS
Mary Anne Moser
Mary Anne Moser has built a career at the crossroads of art, science and creativity. Her ability to inspire confidence and build partnerships has helped her create unique phenomena that attract international attention.
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She is recognized as a visionary bridge-builder, strategist, passionate about technology, art and society, and a tireless leader in complex interdisciplinary environments. She has led talented teams that perform well above average on a global stage. She is known for programmatic innovation that achieves global recognition.
Jay Ingram was co-host of Daily Planet on Discovery Channel for 16 years and host of CBC’s Quirks and Quarks for 12 years. Jay has written 21 books, received 7 honorary degrees, and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2009.
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He co-founded the acclaimed science-art spectacle Beakerhead, chaired the Banff Science Communications Program for 10 years. Jay has received major national awards for science communication, including the McNeil Medal, Sandford Fleming Medal, Michael Smith Award, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
FOUNDER AND CEO
Who Coordinates the Global Partners?
Mary Anne Moser
Principal
Former President & Co-Founder (Beakerhead) / Former CEO (Telus Spark) / PhD (Interdisciplinary)
Mary Anne Moser has built a career at the crossroads of art, science and creativity. Her ability to inspire confidence and build partnerships has helped her create unique phenomena that attract international attention. She is recognized as a visionary bridge-builder, strategist, passionate about technology, art and society, and a tireless leader in complex interdisciplinary environments.
She has led talented teams that perform well above average on a global stage.
She was the founder of the Banff Centre Press in 1995, the Banff Science Communications Program in 2005, and Canada’s Iron Science Teacher competition in 2007. She is the editor of two books on art and science: Immersed in Technology (MIT Press 1995) and Science, She Loves Me (Banff Centre Press 2011). She co-founded and was CEO of Beakerhead, a visionary art, science and engineering initiative that rocketed to success through creativity and partnerships. She transformed Telus Spark Science Centre during her tenure as CEO.
She has received an ASTech Award for Excellence in Science and Technology Public Awareness, an Honorary Doctorate from Mount Royal University, Arch Award for distinguished alumni of the University of Calgary, and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal for her years of service to community.
She holds a BSc in zoology, MA in communications and an interdisciplinary PhD.
A NEW AGENCY
Previous Clients
through contract and employment roles
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Media about Mary Anne Moser
«Moser certainly does like big projects, and Canadian science communicators are hugely indebted to her for implementing them, training science communicators across the country and bringing the wonder of science and art collaborations to the public»
«Dr. Mary Anne Moser is recognized for raising the visibility of science and technology innovation in Alberta»
«Mary Anne Moser was named Telus Spark’s new president and CEO April 2019»
«Fall 2019
Mary Anne Moser, PhD, President and CEO of Telus Spark; co-founder of Beakerhead
Honorary Doctor of Laws»
«The Canadian science community owes a lot to Mary Anne for bringing the wonder of science and art collaborations to the public»
«Mount Royal University awards honorary doctorate to Beakerhead co-founder as two new science degrees approved»
