Paradigm Shifting Visionary Leadership (Click to Enlarge)
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Tom Haymes a visionary expert with a proven track record of merging technology with practical outcomes in education and strategy. From over 40 years in technology (going back to his Apple ][+ in 1981) to over 40 years in photography (Haymes Images Website) to over 25 years as an educator to 30 years as a political scientist. For the last 20 years he has been a technologist, which combines all of these experiences in a unique way. IdeaSpaces is an outgrowth of Tom’s interest in design and the visual aspects of environment combined with his social scientist’s interest in organizational change and growth. Tom is also a keen historian who has published articles on military history, particularly as it relates to innovation. He uses his extensive research in that area to inform him of the history of successes and failures that led us to today.
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Tom is the proud father of five ambassadors to the future (Nikki, Tessa, Carter, Rob, and Lexy) and married to a wonderful woman who keeps it all together for him.
His LinkedIn Profile can be found at: www.linkedin.com/in/tomhaymes
He Tweets at: @ideaspacesnet
His Email is: tom@ideaspaces.net
His Photography Email is: tom@haymesimages.com
Author of:
 Learn at Your Own Risk – Book –Learn how to use the IdeaSpaces Frame-work to design post-pandemic teaching with Learn at Your Own Risk. |
 Discovering Digital Humanity – Book –
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Empowering ecosystems of humans to augment their capacity for creativity, learning and innovation in a Digital Age through the strategic application of technology
Foundations
Spaces
Systems
Building Foundations for Innovation Spaces (2006-2014)
Applying my central philosophy of learning and innovation to major projects (2006-2014) (Click to Enlarge)
The Three-Strategy for Technology Adoption 2008 |
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HCC Learning Web (2010) |
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Building Innovation Spaces (2014-2018)
Applying my central philosophy of learning and innovation to major projects (2014-2018) (Click to Enlarge)
IdeaSpaces Framework (2014) |
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Alief Campus Learning Spaces (2015) |
 Atrium of the Alief Campus after renovation in 2014 |
Innovation Loops (2016) |
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The West Houston Institute (2017) |
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FAR Strategy (2017) |
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ELITE Strategy (2018) |
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Reimagining Learning and Education Systems
for the Digital Age (2019-2023)
Applying my central philosophy of learning and innovation to major projects (2019-2023) (Click to Enlarge)
A career of applying SPACE-TIME-STRUCTURE
to Education and beyond
SPACE
- Design lead for the West Houston Institute
- Developed the ELITE Strategy (Empowered Learner-Empowered Instructor–Technology Empowerment) for connecting active learning and innovation to virtual and physical space design
- Developed the FAR Strategy (Fluid-Adaptive-Reactive) for connecting curriculum to learning space design
- Developed the Learning Spaces Institute concept for implementing and testing of learning spaces and their integration of space, technology, and furniture
- Collaborated on the development of a Makerspaces Typology (Creation Station-Design Lab-Fabrication Lab) to simplify MakerSpace design decisions and to begin to develop packages to simplify implementation based on use- case and budgetary scenarios
- Led a team to develop the Empowered Learner Modules to assist schools in creating small, self-contained innovation spaces on campus
- Conceptual design for Houston Community College’s Katy Campus employing the STAC Model for Informal Learning Spaces
TIME
- Produced West Houston Institute Promotional Video
- Experience facilitating a wide variety of Faculty Professional Development experiences
- Intersectional Thinker that brings a broad range of disciplines to bear on understanding and facilitating innovative change
- Lifelong Teacher and Educator
- Produced FAR Strategy Video for PBK
- Experience developing and executing Alternative Approaches to Teaching and Learning
- Led a team to develop a Knowledge Base on Next Generation Learning and Sustainability technologies for school administrators and architects
- Extensive Visual and Textual Narrative experience
- Reshaping Instructional Time Through a Design-Based Government Course
- Facilitated Remote Teaching Seminars for Houston Community College
STRUCTURE
- Led Innovation and Project Teams for 20 years in everything from academic reinvention to IT to facilities construction to research and intelligence
- Led Faculty Innovation Seminars such as the New Media Seminar
- Led Innovation Development Projects for the faculty web presence, one-button studio, design lab, active learning classrooms, and many other technology/pedagogy solutions
- Led a team that developed the Teaching Innovation Lab concept which uses Lean Startup methodology to reinvent teaching on an iterative, collaborative basis
- Developed the Three-E Strategy (Easy, Evident, Essential) for technology adoption
- Developed the Ideaspaces Framework (Space-Time-Structure), which informed design and planning for the West Houston Institute
- Understand and appreciate the opportunities and limitations of the Lean Startup Method. Have initiated dozens of lean startup projects
- Part of the FOEcast Leadership Group, an international group of futurists in education and technology
- Founding Member and current Innovator in Residence at Arizona State University’s ShapingEDU Project
- Business Intelligence, Budgeting, and Strategic Planning experience
- Extensive IT Management Experience
- Created an integrated hybrid campus model which was implemented at HCC’s Katy Campus
A Chronological Typology of Tom’s Career