Building Brave Spaces: the Path to Engaged Leadership 03 the Leadership Program Table of Contents
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01 The Leadership Program Building Brave Spaces: The Path to Engaged Leadership www.trudeaufoundation.ca 03 The Leadership Program Table of Contents 01 Leadership Program of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation 03 Contextualizing Engaged Leadership 06 Components of the Leadership Program 07 Scientific Cycle 08 Six Key Leadership Concepts 12 The Leadership Journey of the Scholar 13 Leadership of Self 15 Leadershing Among Others 17 Leadership of Systems 19 Designing the Leadership Program 20 Active Roles For Fellows and Mentors Guiding Principles To Content Design – Year One: Institutes of 21 Engaged Leadership 22 Learning Formats Appendix 1: Leadership Development Planning Timeline – 23 Illustrative Purposes 01 The Leadership Program 01 The Leadership Program 02 The Leadership Program The Leadership Program Since its inception in 2002, the Pierre strictly linked to a given academic field of Elliott Trudeau Foundation has proudly study can, more than ever, help prepare our supported and encouraged research, Scholars for life beyond their studies. reflection, and engagement in four principle areas: Human Rights and Dignity, Conscious of the need to enhance a Responsible Citizenship, Canada and researcher’s capacity to take action and the World, and People and their Natural play a significant role outside academia, Environment. While these Four Themes the Foundation has renewed its mission remain of critical importance, Canada and to focus on the core goal of developing the world have changed over the past two the leadership potential of its Scholars decades, and so has academia. with respect to our Four Themes. The Foundation’s Leadership Curriculum is Among other trends, academic researchers designed to support a new generation of are now facing greater demands to make Scholars in the Humanities and Social their work more widely accessible to the Sciences who not only excel as thinkers and general public and to conduct research that researchers, but who have the potential to has meaningful social impact, is connected become inspired agents and catalysts for to communities, and demonstrates positive change in society. The Foundation’s leadership in helping to address some of the Leadership Program enriches the academic most pressing issues of our time. In addition, experience by preparing and empowering with more and more PhD holders finding Scholars as Engaged Leaders who will have careers outside the halls of academia, meaningful impact in their institutions and transferable professional skills beyond those communities. 03 The Leadership Program a 21st-century vision of leadership that Contextualizing Engaged expands radical curiosity about people and Leadership ideas, and encourages a willingness to be Today, Canada is notably defined by its challenged and take risks while learning increasingly diverse population fuelled how to collaborate across a plurality of by growing rates of immigration, and its perspectives. The Foundation’s unique efforts which are underway to implement Leadership Curriculum seeks to build on recommendations which were put Scholars’ existing skills and strengths by forward in the Truth and Reconciliation offering opportunities that are stimulating, Commission’s final report with respect to challenging, and purposefully move outside First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. of one’s traditional comfort zone. Canada is evolving in multiple contexts: This approach presumes all Scholars have the continual acceleration of technological room to grow as leaders, and is centered advancement, navigating the complexities around building healthy relationships with of globalization, and acting on the growing self, others, society, and the natural world, global imperative to slow climate change; all in the pursuit of imagining shared futures, while social inequities persist. including with those who hold opinions and goals you may not necessarily espouse. To successfully address Canada’s social, political, cultural, health, economic and The Engaged Leader cultivates a deep environmental issues, and build a more and meaningful connection with self, prosperous, harmonious, and sustainable others, ideas, systems, and societies. co-existence, leaders must work in an Engaged Leaders act for the benefit of their environment marked by a plurality of communities, their cities, their country, and perspectives. our planet. When Engaged Leaders work in generative, interdependent relationships, The increasingly complex conditions they can influence community dynamics, in which we lead demand a new set of government policy, public opinion, and leadership abilities that foreground inter- evolving social values. relational engagement with people, systems, and the planet. How do we lead in a context The notion of Inclusive Excellence is closely of diverse world views, belief systems, and related to the Foundation’s vision of forms of knowledge? How do we relate Engaged Leadership. Inclusive Excellence across differences and work together to encapsulates our firm commitment to cultivate an inclusive public imagination? diversity, equity and inclusiveness in Can we embrace diverse ways of knowing, our practices, and our commitment to being, and doing? exposing Scholars, as part of their Engaged Leadership training, to a diversity of people, The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s cultures, institutions, knowledge, ideas desire to develop Engaged Leaders reflects and perspectives. The Foundation believes 04 The Leadership Program that exposure to diversity brings excellence take action together?” This understanding by broadening one’s understanding of of leadership is a generative one where the world and encouraging dialogue and process becomes content. It understands engagement across difference. The ability to that complex challenges demand emergent relate across difference, to cultivate diverse responses, and aims to shape collective networks, and to establish respectful action inside this dynamic context. relations within different environments is essential to Engaged Leadership. Our Leadership Program proposes a path to community engagement through The value of ‘togetherness’ is inherent exposure to challenging debates, a diversity in the notion of engagement. Navigating of perspectives, and by moving outside change in a highly complex society driven one’s traditional comfort zone through by a diversity of perspectives, Engaged engagement with self, others, systems, and Leaders ask: “How can we lead together? the environment. What can we create together? How can we build community together? How do we 05 The Leadership Program “At the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, we have built the leadership curriculum around leadership of self, leadership among others, and leadership of systems. First, you need to know yourself, and be able to identify your own blinds spots.” Pascale Fournier, President & CEO 06 The Leadership Program Skills: To equip Scholars with leadership Components of The Leadership skills, competencies, capabilities, and Program practices that will allow them to effectively The Base Components of the Leadership apply their work beyond academic contexts Program as influential agents of change in the world. The objective is to prepare Scholars with Engagement: To support a cohort of experiences that expand ways of knowing, Scholars to engage in and interact with the being and doing, ways of understanding Pascale Fournier, President & CEO increasingly complex, social, cultural, and patterns through sensing changes and political environment in which they operate. opportunities and sharpening foresight, The objective is to provide diverse contexts as well as equip Scholars with a set of for engagement by situating learning in enterprising skills and competencies. Using the community. Visiting institutions and these skills to work towards a desired organizations on location has Scholars future, Scholars will subsequently be able engage with diverse social and political to lead successfully within organizations, ideologies by co-ordinating experiential institutions, and societal contexts. learning opportunities that aim to illustrate Network: To facilitate the development real-world conditions and the leadership of Scholars’ networks across the private, strategies inherent in these contexts. public, and social sectors that will enable These opportunities also facilitate learning them to excel as engaged civic leaders. by exposing Scholars to diverse cultures, structures, policies, and organizing principles that contextualize leadership in different parts of the world. gageme LP P is eor 07 The Leadership Program Fellows (and Mentors who have such Scientific Cycle expertise) will lead learning sessions on Each cohort’s leadership journey is the Scientific Cycle at our Institutes of framed by a Scientific Cycle that has Engaged Leadership, equipping Scholars interdisciplinary dimensions and reflects a with a greater understanding of key issues timely and significant issue, or set of issues, involved and how engaged leadership can for the future of Canada and the world. help address them. By contrast, Scholars The Scientific Cycle is not a substitute for are not selected based on their expertise on the Foundation’s Four Themes. Rather, it the Scientific Cycle. Rather, Scholars look provides the lens through which these four beyond their respective areas of expertise fundamental themes are explored. and develop their engagement with issues and ideas that lie outside their academic As leading academics with expertise on