Join us on at 8:15am on June 23, 2023 at the Riverside Inn (531 St. Mary’s Road) to explore the monthly CreativeMornings theme of REVERIE!

Talk Title: Creativity, dreams and coffee – a personal journey of reverie

Meet Our Speaker: Al Dawson (Harrison’s Coffee Co.)

It is easy to talk about what makes an individual great when one lists professional credentials and experience built over years of lessons learned and challenges overcome, but what differentiates Al is who he is at heart. It sounds cheesy, perhaps, when talking about business, but his caring is his keystone characteristic: without it, none of the credentials and experience build up to anything lasting.

Al’s success lies in his ability to show his team, stakeholders, business partners, and colleagues that he truly cares—about getting the job done right and achieving results, of course, but most importantly about not sacrificing the importance of people in the process. Those important relationships create the environment of corporate success day in and day out. Al always has your back and your bottom line! 

Al has a knack for injecting pleasure into the business equation. He has fun, and it is important to him that the people he works with and for have fun, too. He is a true optimist in business and in life.

Most recently, Al has put his money where his mouth is and demonstrate his beliefs publicly by starting Harrisons Coffee Co.  a Winnipeg based coffee roasting company that is guided by kindness and led with radical optimism.

Professionally, Al is an accomplished and empathetic executive with over 28 years of success in leading business operations, organizational change, and team and strategy development. His consulting experience ranges from complex, multi-stakeholder environments in such renowned corporations as Tim Hortons (Restaurant Brands International), Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Pizza Hut, and Panago Pizza to entrepreneurial small and medium-sized businesses.

Al’s business legacy has been results driven and solution focused, with a strong history of partnership development, people leadership, and business growth in a style all his own.  It is easy to talk about what makes an individual great when one lists professional credentials and experience built over years of lessons learned and challenges overcome, but what differentiates Al is who he is at heart.

It sounds cheesy, perhaps, when talking about business, but his caring is his keystone characteristic: without it, none of the credentials and experience build up to anything lasting. Al’s success lies in his ability to show his team, stakeholders, business partners, and colleagues that he truly cares—about getting the job done right and achieving results, of course, but most importantly about not sacrificing the importance of people in the process.

Those important relationships create the environment of corporate success day in and day out. Al always has your back and your bottom line!  Al has a knack for injecting pleasure into the business equation. He has fun, and it is important to him that the people he works with and for have fun, too. He is a true optimist in business and in life.

And the cherry on the top is Al is the world’s greatest dad (or so he’s been told) and a perfectly imperfect husband (the best kind).

Al is happy to be changing the landscape of coffee and we are thrilled to be welcoming him as our June speaker at CreativeMornings Winnipeg!

Exploring the June CreativeMornings theme of REVERIE

When your gaze softens around the edges, where does your mind travel? What thoughts arise unbidden? Reverie beckons us to dream while awake, spinning loose associations that seem to emerge from somewhere not entirely inside or outside of you. Our woolgathering summons past memories and nascent fantasies. We turn them over and over, like smooth stones in our hand, making meaning. 

Our Omaha chapter chose this month’s exploration of Reverie and Eduardo Gardea illustrated the theme.