February 18, 2009
Flyer for Leadership for Knowledge Mobilization available for download
February 17, 2009
Panelists for Leadership Discussion announced
We are very pleased to announce that Alan Breakspear and Laura Milne will be joining us at this Boot Camp on Leadership for Knowledge Mobilization.
Their biographies are linked above.
January 20, 2009
Opening Speaker Announced:
Dr. Graham Dickson
Director, Centre for Health Leadership and Research
Royal Roads University
Dr.
Graham Dickson is the director for the Centre for Health Leadership and
Research at Royal Roads University. As former Director of the School of
Leadership Studies, Graham provides guidance and support for graduate
degree programs, executive development programs as well as graduate
certificate programs in the School of Leadership Studies.
In 2004
Graham moderated an online dialogue that engaged Canadians from all
walks of life in a discussion on the controversial decision by Canada
to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gases. The dialogue brought
together scientists, researchers, professors, business leaders and
activisits. The idea arose from one of RRU's mandates to engage in
applied research in the public policy arena.
"It has been said
Canada has taken an international leadership role in signing the Kyoto
accord – and kudos to former prime minister Jean Chretien for being a
visionary by doing so," Dickson said. "But that's the easy part. The
hard part is finding the leadership vision, will, and resolve to
implement Kyoto, and to do so in a manner commensurate with the spirit
of the agreement. The Kyoto dialogues on leadership will discuss these
issues."
Dr. Dickson has made a life of analysing leadership
and how it affects positive and negative change in any organization.
Earlier this year he was asked to appear on CBC Radio's All Points West
to discuss the leadership skills of NHL president Gary Bettman and NHL
Players Association lead council Bob Goodenow.
"Leadership is
crucial, especially when two organizations are on the opposite side of
a very public issue," Dickson says. "So this was a great opportunity to
show that RRU teaches tangible skills that play an important role in
the real world."
Dickson's work on Kyoto also posed some
important leadership questions and attempted to generate a consensus on
what directions could be pursued by our leaders. It asked participants
to find the leadership qualities each of them may possess and make a
decision whether to use them in support of Kyoto. It challenged
particpants to truly see if there are better ways to set social
direction than many of the traditional processes represented by our
current decision-making structures in Canada.
January 18, 2009
Registration for the third in our series of workshops: Leadership for Knowledge Mobilization is now open: https://www.regonline.ca/63367_694430J
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