Special Guest Faculty
Guest Faculty have included:
Barry Posner, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Business, Santa Clara University, California.
Co-author of “The Leadership Challenge” (Kouzes & Posner) and co-developer of the renowned Leadership Practices Inventory. The body of work has been praised by Business Week, Fortune Magazine and other key publications. “The Leadership Challenge” was named book-of-the-year by the American Council of Health Care Executives and has been translated into 15 languages.
Jim Kouzes is the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University and co-author with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, which has been translated into 15 languages and sold over 1.5 million copies. It was #3 on Amazon Editor’s Pick for the Best Business Books of 2007. It was also the winner of the 1995-96 Critics’ Choice Award and the 1989 James A. Hamilton Hospital Administrators’ Book Award. Jim is not only a highly regarded leadership scholar; The Wall Street Journal has cited him as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S.
Kathleen M. MacMillan, RN, BSc, MA, MSc is currently the Dean of Health Services at Humber College. Kathleen’s varied nursing experience spans clinical practice, education, administration, policy and research. She was the first Provincial Chief Nursing Officer for Ontario from 1999-2001, and in this role she led the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the province’s Nursing Strategy and Nursing Task Force recommendations.
Rick Lash is the Expertise Leader for the Haygroup’s Organization Effectiveness and Management Development Practice. Rick holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Toronto and is a registered psychologist and a certified executive coach. Rick has over 15 years of experience in the design and implementation of organizational change interventions including ways to accelerate and maximize the learning process and increase performance at the individual, team and corporate level. He is also widely recognized as an expert in creating cultures of continuous learning and developing emotional intelligence.
Rick has spoken widely on leadership development and organizational transformation. Rick is a regular conference presenter who has also written several articles for the Globe and Mail’s Careers section.
The Hay Group is a worldwide management-consulting firm that helps organizations assess, develop, motivate and reward their people effectively. It is the largest management consulting firm in the world specializing in human resources management.
In 1999, Hay Group formed a strategic partnership with Daniel Goleman, to support his research in the area of emotional intelligence. Hay has been working with clients to help put Goleman’s groundbreaking framework and research on human behaviour into practice and continues to work with Harvard University, Goleman and his colleagues in continuing research on organization effectiveness, leadership development and human behaviour.
For the past several years, the HayGroup has been a partner-sponsor of the Dorothy Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute. We are delighted to have them as partners in the evolution of the new Health Leaders Institute. For more information about the HayGroup please visit http://www.haygroup.com/ca/.
Bonnie Fleming-Carroll is the Associate Chief of Nursing & Inter-Professional Education at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is cross appointed with the University of Toronto, Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and has been collaborating with the UofT Office of IPE to develop a framework for interprofessional core competencies for Pre-Licensure Health Science students. As an Advanced Practice Nurse, Bonnie maintains a clinical practice working with children with severe asthma and their families. She has developed expertise in diversity, family-centred care, care guideline/ pathway development, leadership, recruitment and retention and healthy work environment, and is involved in a number of externally funded research projects.
David Brownstone is an Academic and Clinical Specialist in the Department of Social Work at the Hospital for Sick Children, a role that entails supervision of social work staff, as well as involvement in various hospital initiatives to enhance psychosocial care. David is a member of the Diversity in Action committee at SickKids, and still practices as a social worker in the Paediatric Brain Tumour Program. His research focuses on the experiences and strategies to support families of children with brain tumours, specifically during end of life care. Prior to SickKids, David worked in a number of community organizations, as a therapist, educator and community program developer.
Jacoba Lilius is cross-appointed in the School of Policy Studies and School of Business at Queen’s University, where she teaches graduate level courses in Organizational Theory and Health Care Management. As part of a research collaboration with members of the Compassion- Lab, Jacoba has developed a stream of research toward understanding the form and impact of compassion in work organizations. Her recent work centers around the mechanisms through which people manage the relational challenges inherent in human service work, as well as subsequent implications for organizational performance outcomes.
