Corporate partners, alumni, faculty, and students gathered on Friday, April 15, at Massey College for a luncheon to celebrate the success of the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead).
The first institute of its kind in Canada, ILead offers courses, and co-curricular programs to help students excel in the work force. Students develop skills in four domains of leadership: self, team, organization and society. ILead’s various courses and initiatives address each of these domains, equipping students with the skills to lead change to build a better world.
Attendee David Colcleugh (ChemE 5T9, MASc 6T0, PhD 6T2), a professor at ILead, has seen first-hand the positive impact that leadership skills can have at a company. For more than 40 years he has worked for and consulted with a wide variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations.
He said that well-managed, conventional organizations can achieve good results, meet their goals and survive in a steady state of status quo — which is the case with many companies. But the companies that grow at especially high rates have found ways to integrate leadership principles and functional engineering expertise. Their engineers innovate, build high-functioning teams, create new products and processes, satisfy existing customers and seek out new ones.
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-Jamie Hunter