Below please find the topics of our previous Leaderful Conversations. If you are interested in guiding us through a conversation on a topic in relation to leadership, please reach out – leader@carleton.ca
- Amanda Goth, University Secretary, guided us through a conversation on the leadership lessons learned while being part of the Sandwich Generation – a generation of people responsible for bringing up their own children and for the care of their aging parents.
- Andy Thompson, Program Assessment Specialist, Quality Assurance (Academic), guided us through a conversation on the role power and status play in our leadership journeys. Do we need power to lead and does having power make us leaders?
- Kylie Patrick, Senior Development Officer in the Department of University Advancement, guided us through a conversation on leading through change. Change is a constant in our lives, at work, home and in our communities. How we handle change in our lives both personally and as leaders can have a huge impact on the quality of our lives.
- Jane Van den Dries, Communications Officer in the Office of Vice-President Academic, guided us through a conversation that focused on exploring resilience, authentic leadership, and our personal philosophy.
- Samantha Munro, Healthy Workplace Officer in the Office of Quality Initiatives, guided us through a conversation exploring how our personality traits can impact our sense of belonging and connection, and how as leaders we can create opportunities for authentic connection.
- Stenley Philippe, Recruitment Officer/Page Liaison in the Office of Undergraduate Recruitment, guided us through a conversation focused on sharing our journey through adapting our routines, behaviours and leadership when facing unfamiliar circumstances in the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Leta Bourque (Residence Student Conduct Coordinator), Jenny Daines (Coordinator, Assessment, Hiring and Training) and Natalie Allan (Assistant Director, Residence Life Services), explored various leadership concepts such as empathy, power, vulnerability and community. Using the backdrop of the Brene Brown podcast episode with President-Elect Joe Biden they asked us thought provoking questions as we considered our leadership philosophies.
- Julie Caldwell, Assistant Director, READ Initiative shared her journey to her vision of success and invited others to explore revisiting their definitions and create vision for success so that you can live and love your life to its fullest.
- Anshul Singh, Assistant Director, Admissions Services discussed his network of Carleton faculty/staff members that are also entrepreneurs, community leaders, sportspersons, and volunteers, with skill-sets that far outweigh their job profiles. Through their stories, he embraced his own journey of exploring leadership beyond work hours and invited others to rethink leadership at work, through the lens of leaderful activities we accomplish outside.
- Kim Hellemans, Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Adrian Chan, Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering hosted a meaningful and leaderful conversation on a discussion of gender and the workplace in the time of the pandemic. Gender equity issues will likely continue to perpetuate and have a greater impact on our society, unless we engage as leaders in this conversation, and be catalysts for action and change at both the system and individual levels.
- Ikram Jama, Senior Equity Advisor in the Department of Equity and Inclusive Communities hosted the community to reflect on the joys and challenges of compassionate leadership during the pandemic and beyond. Questions which guided our thinking included: How does compassion inform your leadership? What facilitates compassionate leadership in our context and what hinders it? What have we learned about the role of compassion in our leadership during the pandemic?