February 14, 2008
York University: Canada's Top Women Executives Highlight Women in Leadership Conference
Some of Canada's most senior women executives will share their leadership experiences and their definitions of personal success at the 2008 Women in Leadership Conference. The one-day event has been organized by Women In Leadership (WIL), a student organization at York University's Schulich School of Business. The conference will take place at the Schulich School of Business on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as members of the business community. The event will be followed by a Networking Reception. This year's conference theme is "Redefining Success". The panel discussion topics include Leadership Beyond the Firm, The Workplace of the Future, and The Changing Roles of Men and Women. The conference features a number of high-profile guest speakers from a variety of industries including Real Estate, Marketing, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Non-profit, Human Resources and Law. Conference speakers include:
Rose Reisman, The ART of Living Well;
Toni Rossi, Director Development, Oxford Properties;
Christine Kania, Senior Director - Financial Analysis, Maple Leaf Consumer Foods;
Joanna Track, Publisher of SweetSpot.ca;
Sheila Goldgrab, President, Goldgrab Leadership Coaching;
Karyn E. O'Neill , National Partner, Mercer;
Deborah Gillis, VP, Catalyst Canada;
Alysha Valenti, Lawyer, McCarthy Tétrault LLP;
Laura Isidean, Managing Director, Head of Corporate and Institutional Foreign Exchange Sales, Scotiabank;
Liz Gildner, Program Manager, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM Canada; and
Beth Horowitz, former CEO of Amex Bank of Canada
Sponsors for the WIL Conference include Scotiabank, KPMG, TD Canada Trust and InStorage REIT.
Women in Leadership (WIL) is a student organization designed to create a network for women in pursuit of a business degree. WIL members include Schulich graduate and undergraduate students. WIL serves the Schulich community by providing a series of professional, educational and networking events to enhance the understanding and appreciation of women's role in business, while assisting members in reaching success in their chosen field. Known as Canada's Global Business School™, the Schulich School of Business in Toronto is ranked number one in Canada by Forbes, The Economist (EIU) and the World Resources and Aspen Institutes, and is ranked as one of the top ten schools in the world outside the US by BusinessWeek, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. Schulich is ranked 13th in the world in The Wall Street Journal's "Top International Schools" ranking; 9th in BusinessWeek's top international schools ranking; 4th in the world among non-US, two-year MBA programs in the Forbes ranking; 22nd in the world in the "Best Global MBAs" ranking conducted by Expansión magazine, a Time-Warner publication based in Mexico City; 30th in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the business research and intelligence arm of The Economist magazine; and 49th in the world by the Financial Times of London (30th in the world in the three-year average category). Schulich is also ranked 3rd in the world in the field of corporate social responsibility in the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking conducted by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute. Global, innovative and diverse, Schulich offers business programs year-round at two Toronto campuses - its new state-of-the-art complex on York University's main campus and its downtown Miles S. Nadal Management Centre located in the heart of the city's financial district. The School also operates satellite centres in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; and Moscow, Russia. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has over 20,000 alumni working in more than 80 countries. Schulich pioneered Canada's first International MBA (IMBA) and International BBA (iBBA) degrees, as well as North America's first ever cross-border executive MBA degree, the Joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. The Schulich Executive Education Centre (SEEC) provides executive development programs annually to 16,000 executives in Canada and abroad.
Source: York University - Schulich School of Business, Ontario
February 11, 2008
TD Bank Financial Group Supports Management Leadership at McGill University
McGill University today announced the donation of $1 million by TD Bank Financial Group to establish the TD Fund for Leadership at the Desautels Faculty of Management. The Fund will support the MBA Global Leadership Seminar and the Undergraduate Leadership Seminar - two key programs designed to promote leadership through collaboration and foster personal reflection and responsibility by exploring management processes for leading people and organizations. "At TD, we believe we have a responsibility to cultivate leaders who, in addition to being strong contributors in the business world, will also have training that will add to the long-term vibrancy of our communities," said Bernard Dorval, Group Head Business Banking and Co-Chair, TD Canada Trust. "We're confident that our donation to the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill will ensure students are participating in seminars that are part of a truly world-class program." TD Bank Financial Group will commit $100,000 per year for 10 years in support of the seminars, which are part of a comprehensive initiative to develop integrated management at the Desautels Faculty. The MBA Global Leadership Seminar includes guest speakers from academia and industry and was developed by Desautels Professor Nancy Adler, who is well known for research in global leadership, cross-cultural management and women as global leaders and managers. The Undergraduate Leadership Seminar is a student-led initiative that targets first-year Desautels students. "It gives me great pleasure to announce this gift from TD Bank Financial Group," said Peter Todd, Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. "Providing leadership training for our graduate and undergraduate students is an important part of our mission to educate the next generation of business leaders. We hope these funds will inspire all students to reach even higher, both academically and personally, so they can lead and drive positive change in business and society both locally and internationally."
Source: McGill University, Quebec
February 4, 2008
Brock MBA Student Selected to Attend the Youth Forum of the "Copenhagen Consensus 2008"
The Copenhagen Consensus Centre is operated through the Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark and is funded by the Danish government. The focus of the centre is to conduct and facilitate research in order to "work to improve the prioritizing between various efforts to mitigate the consequences of the world's biggest challenges." The centre is headed by Bjorn Lomborg, a professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Dr. Lomberg was named one of the 100 globally most influential people by Time Magazine in 2004, and Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazine identified him as the 14th most influential intellectual in the world in 2005. Kent Keeler, a graduate student in Brock's MBA program, was among the people who submitted an application to attend Copenhagen Consensus 2008 (CC08), and in January 2008, was accepted as one of the 80 Youth Forum Participants. In order to be eligible, applicants had to be currently pursuing graduate studies (Masters or PhD), and be fluent in English. Of the 80 students selected from around the world, only 4 were from North America. Kent was one of only two students selected to attend from Canada. When asked to comment Keeler said "this is a great opportunity to represent Canada and Brock University. I hope to provide effective and useful input, and am confident I will take away a great deal from this experience." Copenhagen Consensus 2008 is built around a core event, with 8 world renowned economists, 4 of which are Nobel Prize winners, assembling to assess a list of 10 of the most pressing global issues and their identified potential solutions. This assessment is based on information from numerous papers outlining the issues and alternative solutions that will be presented by over 55 leading economists. The end result will be a ranked list of potential solutions to the 10 identified global challenges, based on their cost effectiveness. The expectation is that this list can assist policy-makers in making decisions to allocate the limited worldwide resources available for working to solve these issues. The Copenhagen Consensus was initially conducted in 2004, and the results were published in a book titled, "Global Crises, Global Solutions" by Cambridge University Press. As part of CC08 a Youth Forum is also being held which brings together 80 Graduate Students from around the world to undertake the same task as the expert panel. The results of this Forum will provide an alternative to which the expert panel's results can be compared. The Copenhagen Consensus will take place May 25-30, 2008.
Source: Brock University, Ontario
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