Professor Mary Crossan will lead a team of Ivey faculty in teaching our HBA1 students the importance of character and candour - both in their day to day lives and as they take on leadership roles in their future careers.
Character and candour are intimately connected and both are essential in great leadership, but in short supply. Building on the cutting-edge, world-class research and teaching being conducted at Ivey, Professor Crossan has designed a day for students to experience first-hand what character is, why it is so critical, and how they can develop it.
Students will receive their own personalized self-assessment of leaders character and will work with faculty to identify how character plays out in the leadership of Nelson Mandela. They will experience the connection between character and candour in an innovative scripted role play, which reveals how character flaws undermine candour and lead to ineffective decision making and disastrous organizational outcomes.
In addition they will learn from Arlene Dickinson and General (Ret.) Rick Hillier about the importance of character and candour in leadership.
The workshops being delivered to over 600 students will involve 65 professional actors facilitating the scripted role plays.
The day is made possible by a generous alumnus, who so firmly believed in the importance of candour donated $1 million to support research and teaching in this critical area.
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