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Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future
May 30, 2024
12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM 
- Online Live Stream
Join us for a livestream learning event to celebrate the international launch of the newest book from the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, "Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future."
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In This Session
Character is central to each individual’s judgment, behavior, and leadership, and developing strong character enables leaders to make better decisions that contribute to collective well-being. However, what does it mean to lead through character in practice? The latest book from the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future, details the perspectives and stories of modern leaders as they navigated complex challenges and how they used dimensions of character to inform their actions.
For this livestream produced in collaboration with the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at Ivey Business School and moderated by Bryan Benjamin, Executive Director at The Ivey Academy, we’re joined by the book's co-author, Kimberly Young Milani, Director, Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, Ivey Business School, and two leaders whose experiences are featured in the book (more details coming soon). Together, our panelists will share insights from Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future, delving into the stories and philosophical underpinnings for how individuals can embody character-driven-leadership.
About the Book
Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us About Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future provides an exceptional opportunity to become a better leader by applying the extraordinary yet down-to-earth insights from the authors’ accessible scholarship and interviews with truly distinguished leaders whose lessons on building stronger societies through character-based leadership are moving, powerful, and evergreen.
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Guests
Kimberly Young Milani
Director, Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, Ivey Business School
Kimberley is an accomplished leadership professional and has occupied director-level positions in academic centres and institutes across Western University. In 2017, Kimberley joined Ivey Business School’s Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, an Institute at the forefront of knowledge creation in the leader character area. She co-founded Ivey’s Women’s Leadership and Mentoring Program (LAMP) in 2019. Kimberley is also proud to be a member of Ivey's EDI Advisory Council.
Kimberley received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and a Master's Diploma in Organisational Leadership from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of the forthcoming book, CHARACTER: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach us about Building a More Just, Prosperous and Sustainable Future, co-written with her colleague, Gerard Seijts. She is an author on several articles in publications such as Organizational Dynamics, Business Horizons and the Ivey Business Journal, and has conducted extensive public speaking and workshop facilitation on character leadership and women’s leadership in Canada and the US.
Prior to joining Ivey, she was the Director of The Circle Women’s Centre at Brescia University College, Western University for ten years, that cultivated a unique, collaborative, and shared approach to leadership. She was also a founding member and Director of the Institute for Women in Leadership (IWIL) at Brescia for seven years.
Kimberley is a dedicated volunteer and has shared her time and talents with numerous organizations focused on women’s issues, the environment and social justice, including ReForest London, the Women's Events Committee, V-Day London, Women Our Votes Count, The Circle Women's Collective, and Pillar Nonprofit.
Erika Cheung
Co-Founder, Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Spiral Bio
Erika was born in Los Angeles, CA. She spent most of her education homeschooled, but started community college at age 14 and then went on to obtain a dual degree in Linguistics and Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley.
She was one of the key whistleblowers that reported Theranos to health regulators. Her report subsequently led to the shut down of Theranos' clinical lab which prevented the company from providing false medical results to thousands of patients. This account is covered in the book Bad Blood by John Carreryrou, 60 Minutes, ABC Podcast: The Drop Out, and Alex Gibney's documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
After working for biotechnology companies, she committed herself to grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Hong Kong, China, and South East Asia. She was the founding team member of the Betatron, a technology accelerator based in Hong Kong. The program invests and supports early-stage tech companies scale and grow across Asia. She founded Spiral Bio an application-based community facilitating investment and partnerships for healthcare and biotechnology companies across the APAC markets.
Currently, she is the Executive Director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship, an organization she founded to mobilize a social movement to promote an ethical culture within the technology industry. EIE acts as the connective tissues between tools, resources, and experts to implement ethics into the core of their businesses.
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