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You Can Lead. ILead Can Help.
‘There is a leader in everyone’ was a key theme when undergraduate mechanical engineering student Manal Rammal, reflected on her participation with ILead programs. Manal has been at UofT for […]
1% Inspiration
The saying ‘success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration’ led co-founders Maeesha Biswas, IndE 2T1+1+PEY (left in photo) and Jennifer Wang, ChemE 2T1+PEY (right in photo) to name their podcast. […]
Strategy for the End of Term: Look After You
Feeling stressed? Remember that there are many resources and services available to support students! ‘Listen to your body’, ‘never assume’ and ‘reach out’ were some of the key themes touched […]
Just released: Student Leadership Development in Engineering source book
It is with excitement that we share the publication of Student Leadership Development in Engineering, a source book co-edited by Cindy Rottmann and Meagan Kendall. The publication of this source book signals engineering […]
Compassion in action: Meet 2022 Troost ILead Difference Maker Award winner Khadija Rana
To Khadija Rana (Year 4 EngSci) being a difference maker is not heroic. “I want people to know that anyone can do it,” she says. “It’s about recognizing people as the whole […]
ILead Welcomes Global Education Curriculum Expert Shailee Koranne
Welcome to the newest member of the ILead team, Shailee Koranne! Shailee will co-lead a new curriculum development initiative which aims to internationalize our leadership programming. In this interview, she […]
ILead Welcomes New Leadership Education Specialist Vivian Trumblay
“Facilitating leadership development is not only about focusing on the people that have already had those opportunities but finding out how can we create points of access for everybody.” Troost […]
Summer Fellows 2021
Meet the 2021 Summer Fellows. Alan Powichrowski (PEY, Statistics and Mathematics) Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji), President My change project is to transform our system of on-boarding and the transfer of […]
First Troost ILead Difference Maker Award Winner Announced
Morris Huang (Year 4, MSE + PEY Co-op) has been selected as the first winner of the Troost ILead Difference Maker Award. Learning about the award came on an especially significant day for Morris; his iron ring arrived in the mail only 15 minutes after receiving the phone call with news of his win.
Summer Fellows 2019
The Summer Fellowship is a 16-week program for highly engaged engineering students who want to grow the impact of their student organization and themselves as leaders. This year ILead worked with 13 […]