Kari Gordon

Director of Programming & People

Kari is a successful community builder facilitating collisions of diverse people, skills and experiences to foster growth and development. Currently the Director of Programming & People for Creative Destruction Lab – Rockies located with the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. The lab is a pre-seed, seed program for deep science and technology startups.

With twenty plus years in high performance sport, Kari found her way into the startup community by coincidence and quickly applied her coaching philosophy to the business community. What is needed to be successful on an international stage applies to both sport and business.