#80: Dennis Cuku: What my children taught me about play, awesomeness and well-being in manifesting Alberta's first net zero commercial building (the Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community)

The Economics of Well-Being

April 20, 2021. Dennis Cuku is an engineer, father of teenage children, husband, entrepreneur and speaker who is passionate about self improvement, productivity, mental health and sustainable development.

He is the co-founder of the former Mosaic Family of Companies, a knowledge-worker collective designed to effect positive social change through business.

He and his former partner dreamed of and manifested The Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community and Commerce, and it was completed in the spring of 2015.

The Mosaic Centre in the deep southern district of Edmonton would become the crown jewel of sustainable building in Edmonton, becoming the first Net Zero energy commercial office building in Alberta — an example of Alberta’s oil and gas abundance igniting innovative sustainable projects.

As a visionary entrepreneur, Dennis operates on the manifesto that Normal is Broken and that capitalism need not come at the expense of human values, environmental sustainability or personal happiness.

Dennis is an animated and stimulating communicator with a zeal for fun, awesomeness and abolishment of status quo.

Dennis Cuku is a mechanical engineer by training with expertise in drilling rig design. He served as acting President of Oil Country Engineering which designed and built drilling rigs until the price of oil collapsed beginning in 2015 with the tough love of that market collapse beginning to bite hard in 2016. Dennis knew the writing was on the wall when large rig orders were cancelled. Sadly, he had to let go of his beloved Mosaic Centre and move on to other ventures.

He is compassionate by nature with a heart for altruism; Dennis Cuku believes an altruistic approach to business will help society adapt to a rapidly changing world.

Dennis understands that in this time of rapid change and disruption our leaders are being called upon to develop healthy workplaces, schools, family units and governments capable of thriving, not just surviving. “There needs to be a humanistic approach to business,” he says. “If we’re going to subscribe to this idea of capitalism, we don’t have to rape and pillage along the way. We can still have free enterprise and we can still have what our planet needs.”

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