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Glen Orsak, Director of Executive Programs at the Telfer Centre for Executive Leadership is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Linda Lizotte-MacPherson as Executive-in-Residence at the Centre.
Ms. Lizotte-MacPherson is a recently retired senior executive that currently serves on boards, and provides coaching, teaching and strategic advice to senior executives in the Federal Government and industry. She brings a unique blend of experience and an exemplary track record of leadership in both government and the private sector at the CEO, COO, CIO and Deputy Minister levels. She has led complex organizations, launched start-ups, and managed large transformation and information technology programs throughout North America. Amongst many prior executive roles on her resume, Linda was most recently the President of the Canada Border Services Agency, President of the Canada School of Public Service and Commissioner of the Canada Revenue Agency. In the private sector, Ms. Lizotte-MacPherson was President of two Canadian subsidiaries, Sapient Canada Inc. and AMS Management Systems Canada Inc., and she held a number of senior executive positions with Digital Equipment of Canada (DEC). She was also the first Chief Executive Officer of Canada Health Infoway, where she successfully launched the corporation.
Drawing on her impressive credentials and experience, Ms. Lizotte-MacPherson will advise Telfer on developments and opportunities in key markets that are served by the Centre for Executive Leadership. As an Executive-in-Residence, she will help to create and lead forums and programs that engage executives to develop their leadership capacity and advance change initiatives that they are leading in their organizations, networks and communities. Her extensive experience as an executive and practitioner will bring real-world experience to Telfer programs that help leaders to develop their skills in the practice of leadership.
The Telfer Centre for Executive Leadership is part of the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and is focused on delivering innovative leadership development programming for executives and senior leaders in its client and partner organizations. Telfer clients and partners consist of organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in the National Capital Region, across the country and internationally. The Centre offers over 30 leadership programs and workshops for executives as well as the Telfer Executive MBA and the Telfer Master of Business in Complex Project Leadership (MBCPL).
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We are so proud to announce that our EMBA was ranked as one of the 100 best EMBA programs in the world by the Financial Times.
Find out more about what this ranking means here: Financial Times Ranks Telfer Executive MBA Among Top Executive MBAs in the World
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To view the official grand opening reception click here!
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After 25 years at the World Exchange Plaza, our dynamic and expanding Centre for Executive Leadership (CEL) has now moved to a brand new, world-class executive learning facility at 99 Bank Street.
The new CEL facilities overlook the renovated atrium and feature bright and spacious classrooms. In addition, participants and instructors will also be able to utilize several boardrooms as well as networking areas.
The CEL is home to Telfer’s growing executive leadership programs:
The Executive MBA, which was recently ranked #1 in the Tier One Global Executive MBA Ranking by CEO Magazine, accelerates value in three distinct ways: business leadership, organizational impact and value to community. A Global, Practical and Relevant program, anchored by the Signature Series of Six Business Consulting Projects, is for professionals focusing on international market and leadership experience to excel in today’s global economy.
Our Master of Business in Complex Project Leadership, which was launched in 2016, is a specialized program designed to equip participants with advanced skills and confidence to be an effective leader and deliver successful program outcomes. Broad areas of learning can be applied to fields such as complex capital procurement projects, program development, business transformation, information technology initiatives and R&D commercialization.
Our vast array of Executive Leadership Programs—developed with our accomplished faculty members, Telfer executives-in-residence, expert industry practitioners and global thought leaders from partner institutions—enable emerging leaders to gain advanced knowledge and skills they can apply immediately and directly to their own practice of leadership.
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CEO Magazine (London, UK) has just released its 2017 ranking of the top Global Executive MBA programs and has ranked the Telfer School of Management’s Executive MBA program #1 in the world.
Using a ranking system entirely geared and weighted to fact-based criteria, CEO Magazine aims to cut through the noise and provide potential students with a performance benchmark for those schools under review.
“Our program is honoured to be recognized by CEO Magazine. The Telfer Executive MBA focuses on a 'Global, Practical, Relevant' platform that accentuates 'Responsible and Effective’ leadership for optimal business impact in an increasingly competitive global market”, said Sophia Leong, Executive Director of the Telfer Executive MBA. “To be tapped by CEO Magazine as the premier Global Executive MBA program underlines the program’s value proposition and impact on the candidates’ transformation.”
“I would like to acknowledge the outstanding work of the entire Executive MBA team, led by Sophia Leong, and all the faculty members who have taught in this program”, said François Julien, Dean of the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management. “In addition, our EMBA candidates and alumni, through their professional successes and impact within their organizations and communities, are making a tremendous contribution to their program and to the Telfer School. I congratulate them sincerely on this remarkable achievement and encourage them to continue their excellent work.”
The full ranking is available on CEO Magazine’s website.
About our Executive MBA
The Telfer Executive MBA Program accelerates value in three distinct ways: business leadership, organizational impact and value to the community. Our program offers professionals a ‘live’ and transformative learning environment, focusing on international market and leadership experience to excel in today’s global economy. The curriculum is anchored by the Signature Series of Six Business Consulting Projects, of which two are global in focus and involve two international business trips.
About CEO Magazine
CEO Magazine has been showcasing top business schools from around the globe since it first launched in 2008. In 2012, the publication launched its annual Global MBA Rankings, profiling MBA, Executive MBA and Online MBA programs.
This year CEO Magazine reached out to business schools across North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the BRICS, and received responses from over 160 institutions – a 20 per cent increase in submissions from 2016.
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Telfer Executive Programs is pleased to have sponsored the inaugural International Coaching Federation Ottawa Prism Awards hosted at the school’s downtown Centre for Executive Leadership on February 1, 2017.
Congratulations to MD Financial Management, Export Development Canada, Canadian Blood Services, Kongsberg Geospatial, Office of the Comptroller General - Treasury Board and Bruyère Continuing Care on their awards recognizing outstanding organizational coaching initiatives!
Organized by the Ottawa Chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the Ottawa Prism Award honours organizations that have implemented coaching programs that fulfill rigorous professional standards, and exemplify how professional coaching can maximize individual potential, shape the culture of an organization and address key strategic goals leading directly to bottom line benefits.
In the news: Ottawa Business Journal; IFC Release
About Telfer Executive Programs
Telfer Executive Programs offers coaching services to individuals seeking to maximize their professional potential or to organizations wishing to create a coaching culture amongst their employees. For more information on our coaching services, or to explore our leadership development programs, contact us at 613-562-5921 or visit our website at https://telfer.uottawa.ca/en/executiveprograms/
Photo caption: Prism Awards organizing committee - Jennifer MacLeod, Judy Mouland, and Denis Lévesque
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We are now accepting registrations for the second offering of the "LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INTENSIVE - THE INNER WORK OF LEADERSHIP”.
In February 2016, the first offering of the Leadership Development Intensive (LDI) engaged a very diverse group of 12 senior leaders in a program that has been experienced by hundreds of participants around the world. The program is led by best-selling author and inspirational leader Dr. John Scherer and co-facilitated by Telfer Executive Programs associates Jean Ogilvie and Dr. Ingrid Richter. Based on the tremendous success of the launch of this program in Ottawa this past winter, the LDI is now a foundation in the our portfolio of leadership development programs that is offered to clients in this region.
The LDI is a highly experiential journey of self-discovery based on Scherer’s book Five Questions that Change Everything. The program is an intensive, short and focused leadership development experience designed to engage senior leaders and executives in making a leap in their ability to deliver extraordinary results in the face of obstacles and resistance. The participants in the program have likely already invested in their leadership development and who want to dive even deeper to refresh their energy for continuing the journey.
The program begins with pre-work and a one-on-one call, then includes a 3½-day “deep-dive” in-class session and two follow-up teleconferences with the facilitators. The program is designed with an individualized coaching approach to leadership development, but also features the special magic of a group dynamic that John and Telfer’s co-facilitators create with each cohort.
The next opportunity to be part of this leadership development experience will be from June 22-25, 2016 - the registration deadline is May 31, 2016. For further information about the Leadership Development Intensive and to register for the program you can visit the LDI webpage.
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Dean François Julien and Doug Dempster, Executive Director of the Telfer Centre for Executive Leadership, are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ingrid Richter PhD as Executive in Residence at the Centre.
The Centre for Executive Leadership is part of the Telfer School of Management and is focused on delivering innovative executive development programming for our clients. Our clients consist of organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in the National Capital Region, across the country and internationally.
Dr. Richter is highly respected for her work in the design and facilitation of leadership development, complex change and organization transformation programs for a diverse spectrum of client organizations and their senior leaders. Over the past 18 months Ingrid has been serving as Academic Director and as lead consultant on several of Telfer’s customized leadership programs for our flagship clients across Canada. In this capacity, she has demonstrated an inter-disciplinary approach and a keen focus on creating high-quality learning experiences that are designed to serve the diverse needs of individual learners and their organizations.
Ingrid brings 30 years of experience as a management consultant and part-time academic, working in a variety of contexts. Her background includes serving as an executive in the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services as well as the Ministry of the Solicitor General. She also served as a Senior Fellow with the Canada School of Public Service (International Programs). In the last 10 years Ingrid has designed and delivered in-depth, large-scale (multi-country) programs involving over 600 senior public and non-profit sector leaders from across Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.
Ingrid is also a leading organizational development professional. As the co-founder of the Canadian Organization Development Institute, she helped establish a first peer review and accreditation process for organization development professionals in Canada. She has also designed and taught programs at the post-graduate level in leadership, social innovation and organization development for Royal Roads University, the University of Toronto and Waterloo University.
Ingrid received a PhD in Management Learning from Lancaster University in the UK. She also holds a Masters in Workplace Learning from the University of Toronto and a BA in Psychology from McGill University.
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The Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa is pleased to announce a $50,000 contribution from Lockheed Martin Canada Inc. to develop curriculum for proposed new post-graduate programs of study in Complex Program Leadership and Strategic Procurement.
As an institution located in the heart of Canada’s capital city, the Telfer School’s Centre for Executive Leadership is uniquely positioned to fulfill the executive training needs of the government and its partners. Educating leaders of complex projects and procurement, as with all programs at the Telfer School, will emphasize experiential learning and rely on engagement with the public and private sectors.
The Telfer School’s Assistant Dean, External Relations Alain Doucet noted, “We are grateful to Lockheed Martin Canada for their commitment to these new programs of study. Their support will allow us to fulfil a great need to develop made-in-Canada expertise in this area.”
"We're pleased to form this partnership with the University of Ottawa and make a significant contribution to an education system that will address issues related to program management and related procurement issues," said Charles Bouchard, Chief Executive of Lockheed Martin Canada. "This is an investment in our country that is given on behalf of the 850 men and women that work from coast to coast for Lockheed Martin Canada."
The programs are pending approval by the University of Ottawa Institutional Quality Assurance Process and by the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance.
Photo (left to right): Doug Dempster, Executive Director, Centre for Executive Leadership, Charles Bouchard, Chief Executive Lockheed Martin Canada, Alain Doucet, Assistant Dean, External Relations and John D. Evans, Vice-President International Engineering and Technology, Lockheed Martin Corporation
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