Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership

Character Leadership Articles for Practitioners

Rising Together: Why Character and Resilience Are Urgent Needs

A blog exploring how resilience is the capacity to stay oriented toward what is good and true while moving through what is painful and uncertain, without losing yourself and without losing others. It is fundamentally relational and communal, not merely individual.

Character Leadership Conference

Join us in Toronto on Wednesday 18 November 2026 for a day of challenge, insight, and honest reckoning about what it means to lead well in an age of AI-driven change. How do we use this powerful tool without surrendering agency, security, judgment, imagination, or moral clarity?

In the end, the defining decisions of this age will be human not technical. They will be character decisions first.

Practitioner Certification Program

Our Winter 2027 Leader Character Practitioner Certification Program will start on January 26, with registration opening soon.

Through this program you will take a deep dive into the Institute's renown research and develop the character and competence to become a subject matter expert in this area. Three modules will be delivered virtually once per week over the course of 13 days using a “train-the-trainer” approach.