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.


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 Motors and Bethlehem Steel.
   
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.
   
  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.
  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.

 

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.