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Overview:

Join Dr. Joan McArthur-Blair for a highly interactive leadership dialogue on three tenets that can sustain leaders over a lifetime of work. Hope, despair and forgiveness are foundational in sustaining leadership through successes and failures – generating the space for a deep understanding of leading in education.

In this webinar, we will discuss: hope and the ability to create a hopeful view; the understanding of ourselves when leadership comes undone (despair); and the ability to open to the world (forgiveness). Participants will leave the dialogue with clear tools to use in their leadership practices.

Designed For:

College presidents, executive teams, planning committees, faculty, staff, as well as Consultants who work with colleges and other public agencies.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explore hope, despair and forgiveness as three tenets of leadership
• Participate in a dialogue on these tenets and how they function to sustain leaders over a lifetime of leading
• Identify fundamental tools to reflect upon how to enhance the use and understanding of these three tenets in your own leadership

Presenter:

Dr. Joan McArthur-Blair is an inspirational speaker and facilitator. She brings to her consulting practice over twenty years experience in higher education in formal and informal leadership roles, most recently as the President of Nova Scotia Community College. Over a broad ranging career she has worked as a leader in higher education, in faculty development, international projects, women in development and the mentorship and education of other leaders. She has particular expertise in the development of leaders, appreciative inquiry in strategic planning, diversity, women in leadership, and is a sought after speaker in the areas of leadership risk, innovation, change and the development of the inner life of leaders and generating positive change.

Joan has fulfilled faculty, department head, dean, vice president and president roles over her career at four diverse Canadian Colleges. She has been faculty and chair of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges’ National Executive Leadership Institute which prepares academic leaders across Canada. As well, she has worked around the world in India, Pakistan, Qatar, and the United States from her bases in British Columbia and Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2010 Joan amalgamated her experience into a consulting practice with a particular focus on the possibilities of leadership and the fostering of leadership in others.

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