Rana Florida is CEO of The Creative Class Group, founded by her husband world renowned urbanist Richard Florida. It is a global advisory firm composed of expert researchers, academics, and…
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The 21st century has seen the rise of many talented and inspiring women who have become pioneers in their respective fields. Women across the world have made significant advances in…
We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Rana Florida. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with her.
As Chief Executive Officer of the Creative Class Group, Rana Florida manages new business development, marketing, consulting, research and global operations serving such diverse clients as BMW, Converse, IBM, Cirque…
Shinola’s first female CEO in a male-dominated auto town, Shannon Washburn, whose earliest goal was to be a college basketball coach, is very much a believer in teams. “Moving into…
Blueprint Futures: Creative CEO: Dan Doctoroff on the New Set of Challenges for Post-Pandemic Cities
Over the course of his long and accomplished career, Daniel L. Doctoroff has endured more than a few failures. But his ability to learn from his mistakes, take lessons from…
Hi Rana, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your…
From Bergdorf Goodman and Tiffany on Wall Street in New York to Louis Vuitton in Hong Kong and Printemps in Paris, design duo George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg have truly paved their…
As we begin to take our first tentative steps to re-open its economy, it is important that we begin now to plan for our kids’ eventual return to school —…
The lockdown will end before scientists develop a working vaccine. Here’s a four-point plan for how companies should adapt.
This global pandemic is not to blame for a trend that was already in place — it has only accelerated it. While government stimulus and small business loans, financing and…
Canada prides itself on its reputation as an open, tolerant and caring place. Especially at our border, where the image of Justin Trudeau greeting refugees turned away from the United…
Back in 2002, my husband, Professor Richard Florida, published the international best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class, an analysis of the forces that are reshaping our economy, our geography,…
We know that the type of traveller targeted by the LE collective is a unique breed: creative, rebellious and unpredictable. That’s why we’ve collaborated with the Creative Class® Group, a…
Human expression has fostered joy, community and understanding in societies across time and place, helping individuals to connect in meaningful ways. Arts and culture tap into this universal drive toward…
As a CEO, mother of two and frequent globetrotter, Rana Florida lives in the intersection of business, art, architecture, creativity and culture. But what of fashion, and where does it…
Take ten million trees, 3.9 million people, 180 languages and dialects, the 7th largest stock exchange, the longest street in the world, and a renowned film festival. Throw in universal…
As Chief Executive Officer of the Creative Class Group, Rana Florida manages new business development, marketing, consulting, research and global operations serving such diverse clients as BMW, Converse, IBM, Cirque…
What is your morning routine? I usually get woken up with a karate chop blow to the face; sometimes coming at me from both directions by 1 and 2-year-old feet….
Q: Rana, tell us more about your background. What were you doing before The Creative Class Group? A: My parents – first generation immigrants from Jordan – drilled the importance…
Rana Florida is a CEO, Entrepreneur and best-selling business Author. As Chief Executive Officer of the Creative Class Group, Rana Florida manages new business development, marketing, consulting, research and global…
The Miami metro — which spans Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties — aspires to become a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation, and it is making dramatic progress. According to…
Philadelphia has long been one of my favorite cities. Having grown up in New Jersey and gone to college at Rutgers, I’ve been visiting, and tracking, the city since the…
Meet The Creative Class Group – A Data-Driven Advisory Services Firm Working With Cities, Regions And Organizations Around The World
The couple opened the doors to their Rosedale home to answer all our pressing questions about design, architecture … And how they juggle it all.
The FIU | Miami Urban Future Initiative hosted its inaugural event recently at Venture Café Miami. Joining Richard Florida in the conversation on Miami’s urban future were Tom Hudson (Vice…
Interview with Rana Florida. As CEO of the Creative Class Group, Rana is one half of the visionary global advisory firm that has transformed how we define and encourage prosperous…
While America closes its borders, its northern neighbor is poaching some of the best tech talent in the world.
n July 2017, in response to a formal request from the North Rosedale Residents’ Association, the city of Toronto placed two new stop signs at the intersections of Glen Road…
Today, more than six million Canadians — 40 per cent of Canada’s workers — toil in low-paying routine service jobs, preparing and serving our food, waiting on us in stores…
Miami has been on a roll. It is attracting people at a rapid clip, it is a center of arts, culture and design, and its entrepreneurial ecosystem is growing. Today…
To know PR maven Ann Layton is to love her, so when she asks for your support on something, you reply with a resounding yes!
Trump’s “Muslim Ban” (Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”) has set in motion will be an unqualified disaster for American business and the…
Holiday season or not, snippets of the devastation in Syria flash across our TVs. It’s way too complicated to wrap our minds around and far too tragic to watch, so…
President Obama, in your final days, the world needs your voice more than ever. If not for the sake of your own legacy, then for the sake of children who…
Both U.S. presidential candidates were flawed. Rightly or wrongly, Hillary seemed like an entitled elitist to one set of voters; Trump like an intolerant, corrupt, prevaricating bigot. Some might say…
Long lines for service send customers a message that a company doesn’t care.Don’t companies see the fallout of such bad business practices? Many customers end up cancelling their service or…
Author of Free-Range Kids, Lenore Skenazy thinks that many helicopter parents are less scared about what might happen to their kids if they leave them unsupervised than they are about…
Rana Florida interview with Jörn Weisbrodt, the artistic director of Toronto’s Luminato Festival.
A joint project between FIU and my team at the Creative Class Group, and the first product of the FIU-Miami Creative City Initiative, Miami’s Great Inflection: Toward Shared Prosperity as…
When it came to shortlisting applications for LE Miami, THE REBELS, to decide what the creative class really want we drafted in help from the real thing: meet our 2016…
A former investment banker, the chairman of the board of directors of Friends of the High Line, a trustee of the New York Public Library, the editor of the acclaimed…
The risks of being an entrepreneur are all too real. From cash flow issues and product differentiation to scaling the business—8 out of 10 start-ups fail within 18 months. I…
Hillary Clinton wasn’t just defeated by Bernie Sanders yesterday — she was defeated by women. Sanders received 53 percent of the female vote overall to Clinton’s 46 percent, according to…
Thousands of people descended on Miami during the first week of December, 2015, to experience Art Basel Miami. On Thursday, December 3, hundreds attended a packed discussion on creativity and…
With the backdrop of Art Basel, Florida International University and the Creative Class Group will host an exclusive forum with international cultural icons about how to keep artists and creators…
On December 2-former Miami mayor Manny Diaz, Richard and Rana Florida will host a fundraiser for Governor O’Malley’s presidential campaign.
Rana Florida on supporting women in the workforce and what the current crop of presidential candidates have to say about the crisis of women in the workforce–and the productivity gap…
In her recent book Upgrade, Florida tackles the future of our careers and how individuals can utilize their experience and expertise, leading them to a fulfilled, confident and involved future.
This week we are bringing you something different, and that is a book review. Here at Collative Pro, reading is something that we do every day and we want to…
At the DX Intersection event, The Design Exchange celebrates an individual or partnership that exemplifies creativity, outstanding talent, and innovative vision. Rana Florida interviews this year’s DXI awardees interior designers,…
Recently asked how to differentiate good from great, Rana Florida in learning from the greats, identifies her top ten ways to go from good to great.
Best pratices from business executives. In her new book, Upgrade, Rana Florida aims to provide readers with the tools to achieve success in work and life. It gathers best practices…
The bigger an industry grows, the more need for disruption it seems. Fast and nimble, flexible and innovative, don’t work in bureaucracies that are bogged down with rigid processes and…
Over 300 people turned out at the College for Creative Studies to participate in CREATE: Detroit, the inaugural ideas fest on place making and cities, led by world-renowned urbanist and…
What lessons can we learn from Detroit’s and other cities’ struggles to remake themselves? That is the question that will be at the heart of CREATE: Detroit, the first of…
At the first annual Create: Detroit, by the Creative Class Group and sponsored by Rock Ventures, he will moderate panels with city-leaders, city-builders, place-makers, urbanists, and urban journalists from across…
LE Miami, The Rebels 2015 brought to you by Travel+Leisure and the Miami Beach Edition. This year’s shortlist will be drawn up by a group of creative class influencers, brought…
The CEO and founder of The Creative Class Group, Rana and Richard Florida, on the ongoing evolution of the creative consumer; rebellious leadership; and the future of travel.
Rana Florida profile. This globe-trotting innovator has many titles – CEO, Author, Editor, Cultural Curator – but one clear message: embrace risk and you will succeed.
Future presidents and CEOs are more alike than you’d think. Use these leadership secrets from contenders for the biggest startup of all, America.
Rana Florida believes that world peace can be achieved through two simple things; education and opportunity.
So much energy and space goes to waste after quitting time. 10 unconventional ideas for putting your office’s off hours to use.
The world’s most innovative and creative organizations should be dreaming up new ways to establish a better work-life balance for all their employees. Instead of holding out a carrot on…
About 500,000 new U.S. companies are launched every month with over 11 million entrepreneurs. But how many are successful under the age of 10? Well, you’ve heard the saying “It’s…
During your Caribbean Cruise, you may dream of living in paradise, of packing it all up and escaping to the islands. While that’s a great fantasy, the reality of trying…
Most people think a Great Idea — a breakthrough discovery, a killer app — will make them wealthy beyond their dreams. But successful entrepreneurs know that Great Ideas are a…
HGTV.ca hostess extraordinaire Rana Florida shows you how to pull off a Halloween party practically overnight.
The end of October is a beautiful time of year, when the air is crisp and the foliage is at its spectacular peak. I can’t think of a better time…
The notion of failing forward is key to success. From every failure lessons are learned, things are tweaked and fine-tuned.
While other celebrities have been content to shill for products, offering themselves as endorsers, Lady Gaga is taking the reins and stamping her indelible mark on said products.
Working mothers (and fathers) are making significant contributions to the U.S. economy and the companies that employ them, but they are doing so without the support that they need. Flex-time…
Fashion and politics may be strange bedfellows, but they definitely go together. Rana Florida interviews Shauna Levy, the President of the Design Exchange and Frank Toskan, co-founder of MAC Cosmetics…
As summer slipped away this week, the air is crisp and the leaves are falling, it’s the perfect time of year to entertain at home with friends over some hearty…
Bands and startups have a lot in common. Sleepless nights, fueled on caffeine and adrenaline, they both have a lot at stake and chances are they’ve sacrificed a lot to…
Rana wants to upgrade you. As CEO of The Creative Class Group and author of the best-seller “Upgrade, Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary“, Rana Florida knows…
As CEO of the consulting firm Creative Class Group and author, Rana Florida thinks outside the business attire box.
Starting with just $150,000 in venture capital and a $50,000 line of credit, Warby Parker has emerged as a fashion giant, selling over a million pairs of designer eyeglasses. More…
If you are afraid to ask for a raise, you are not alone. Most people, no matter how self-confident they are, feel quite anxious about this issue. But good work…
The Creative Class video series celebrates innovative creators across disciplines. This week features Bob Ezrin, one of the most commercially successful producers of all time. He’s worked with many of…
We all need to change our mindset and get up off our behinds. Whether your office is in a suburban industrial park, an urban skyscraper, or in your own home,…
August is the most popular month for summer vacations, and if you are lucky, you have some friends who will invite you to visit them at their beach house, their…
In just three short years Paddle8 an innovative marketplace infusing technology and art has held hundreds auctions with over $100MM in bidding activity and raising over $25MM for charities. This…
Working a shorter week would likely make most people feel happier and even more productive, experts say. But research suggests it may also help boost employment rates.
In 2013 a number of books were published regarding the latest thinking in career strategies. Annabelle Reitman selected a variety of resources that can be helpful whether you are considering…
This Creative Class show features Peter Marino, an internationally acclaimed architect working in commercial, cultural and residential architecture helping to redefine the modern luxury world.
The world’s oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament, Wimbledon kicked off this week gathering the world’s all stars. While 15,000 spectators will gather in Center Court at the All England…