Can You Hear Her Now?
Celina Caesar-Chavannes discusses her own personal journey with host Maureen from the halls of power as a member of Canada’s parliament to her current work exploring the intersection of equity and empathy.
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Conscious Objectivity
ILA’s 2023 Distinguished Leadership Award Winner, The Right Honourable Beverly McLachlin, former Chief Justice of Canada, joins Scott to discuss conscious objectivity and the work leaders need to do to actually hear opposing viewpoints through the noise of built in cognitive biases.
Leading the Court: Canada’s First Female Chief Justice
The Rt. Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Canada’s First Female Chief Justice and the 2023 ILA Distinguished Leadership Award Winner, joins Maureen to reflect on her leadership journey, effective decision making, and the willingness to change as new evidence emerges.
Nerve: Remaining True to Yourself When Leading
Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera share personal stories and lessons learned while serving as the first women presidents of 2 major Canadian universities.
The Power of Latino Leadership
Scott talks with ILA’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Juana Bordas about the new edition of her book – The Power of Latino Leadership ¡Ahora!.
Sheba & ShEquity: Empowering Women-Owned Businesses
Pauline Koelbl discusses her work reshaping the future of women-owned businesses in Africa through the ShEquity investment fund.
A Constructive Player in the World
ILA’s 2023 Conference Chair, Canada’s 19th Primer Minister, the Right Honourable Kim Campbell joins Scott to discuss her lifetime of leadership & service.
Jacinda Ardern and the Challenges of Leadership
What can former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s leadership of New Zealand reveal about the complex mix of authenticity, transparency, and masking that all leaders must grapple with? ILA Fellow Suze Wilson explores this question and more.
Barbara Kellerman on Women & Leadership
ILA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Dr. Barbara Kellerman, shares some of her latest thinking on women and leadership by reflecting on Ursula von der Leyen’s leadership of the European Commission and on the neuroscience of pregnancy.
Sane Leadership on Behalf of the Human Spirit – A Conversation With Meg Wheatley
ILA Lifetime Achievement Awardee Meg Wheatley discusses her work of the past seven years training leaders and activists to be Warriors for the Human Spirit.
Call for Chapter Proposals
Submit your 500-word abstract by 15 June for Embodied Somatic Leadership for Peacebuilding and Protest: Women’s Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice, the upcoming book in ILA’s new Transformative Women Leaders book series from Emerald Publishing.
Women and Leadership: Why It Matters
Sherylle J. Tan and Lisa DeFrank-Cole discuss their latest work on women and leadership contributing to the Discovering Leadership textbook and their new edited book A Research Agenda for Gender and Leadership.