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Faculty
The University
of Guelph faculty who will be teaching the Diploma in Leadership
have research experience and expertise in a wide range of disciplines
and topics that intersect with the concept and execution of leadership.
This includes organizational behaviour and dynamics, change management,
motivational analysis and reward structures, organizational culture, strategic
planning and decision-making, individual and institutional ethics, skills
assessment and coaching, and quantitative analytical measurement of social
phenomena.
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Professor Stephen Lynch
Instructor,
Foundations
in Leadership and Approaches to Skills Development
Professor Stephen Lynch lectures in the Organizational Behaviour
area for the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University
of Guelph. He has developed customized training and development programs
to meet specialized leadership, team development, communication, decision
making, motivation, interpersonal and human resources needs for a
wide variety of clients including the Royal Bank of Canada, General
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Professor Michael Cox
Instructor,
Theories of Leadership
Professor Michael Cox teaches in the Faculty of Management
at the University of Guelph. He has been instrumental in developing
and teaching MBA management and marketing programs. Professor Cox
has co-authored The Seven Pillars of Visionary Leadership, published
by Dryden: Harcourt Brace Canada, book w/CD-ROM to help organizations
to align vision, values and strategy to build leadership performance.
He will be teaching in the University's Diploma in Leadership program. |
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Patrick Boyer, Q.C.
Instructor
Ethics in Leadership
Patrick Boyer, Q.C., is Chair of the Leadership
Conference. His life is centred around Canadian policy and public
affairs. He has worked as a journalist in Ontario, Saskatchewan and
Quebec in the 1960s, as a lawyer specializing in communications and
electoral law in the 1970s, as a parliamentarian representing a Toronto
constituency in the 1980s, and as parliamentary secretary first at
External Affairs and subsequently at the Department of National Defence
in the early 1990s. Mr. Boyer is past president of the Couchiching
Institute on Public Affairs, and current chairman of the Pugwash Thinkers'
Lodge in Nova Scotia. He is currently adjunct professor in the Department
of Political Science at University of Guelph, where he teaches courses
in political ethics, leadership and accountability in Canadian government.
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Dr. Michael E. Rock
Instructor
Leadership
of Organizational Change
Dr. Michael E. Rock is a licensed and certified
EQ consultant and coach with the BarOn EQ-i™ (Emotional Quotient-Inventory™),
the world's most scientifically (statistically and cross-culturally)
validated measurement of emotional intelligence. He is also a professional
adult educator, public speaker, researcher, author of eight books
and professor; educated in Canada, the United States and Switzerland;
holder of six degrees (Doctorate in Adult Education, Indiana University,
1974); author of nearly 150 articles, books, cassettes, CD-ROMs on
human capital profiling topics. Dr.
Rock teaches both online and residence students “Organization
Theory & Design” in the MBA in Hospitality & Tourism
offered by the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, and
“Leadership of Organizational Change” in the Diploma
in Leadership program at the University of Guelph. Dr. Rock has
designed and taught the combined online/residence “EQ and
the New Workplace” course and is a full professor in the Financial
Services Applied Degree Program in the School of Business, Seneca
College and Seneca@York. In 2002 Dr. Rock was named “Honorary
Faculty Member,” The School of Hospitality Business, The Eli
Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University. |
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Dr. Beverley Fretz
Instructor
The Role of
the Leader in Improving Organizational Decision-Making
Beverley Fretz’s expertise is in
the area of Organizational Learning. She currently teaches
in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences and Faculty
of Management at the University of Guelph and will be teaching in
the University's Diploma in Leadership program.
As well as teaching, Dr. Fretz is a Senior Consultant with Warren
Shepell Consultants Corp, working with such companies as the Canadian
Olympic Council, Heinz Canada, Ford Canada, Six Nation’s Council,
Ontario Legal Aid, Sprint Canada, Casino Windsor, Daimler-Chrysler,
College of Nurses of Ontario, Zurich Canada, etc. Dr. Fretz works
closely with organizational leaders to plan and implement policy
and training surrounding performance management, crisis management
intervention, motivation, employee assistance programs, organizational
wellness initiatives, human rights, organizational behaviour, and
conflict mediation.
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