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2024-2025 Schedule 

Scholars to Leaders: A Discussion Panel with PhD Alumni

April 25, 2025, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET *Virtual*

Are you a doctoral student wondering where PhD graduates can find work beyond academia? Do you want to hear from those who have successfully found non-academic jobs and learn about their experience with job searching, applications, interviews, and getting comfortable in an unfamiliar work environment? Join us for a panel discussion with PhD alumni who have walked this path and found success in interesting fields. Confirmed panelists include:

Douwere (Douré) Grékou, Senior Policy Officer, Privy Council Office (PhD Economics 2013)

Douré ("Dew-ray") is a Senior Policy Officer in the Liaison Secretariat for Macroeconomic Policy at the Privy Council Office (PCO, the department that supports the work of the Prime Minister of Canada) leading various economic files that include productivity, international trade and housing. Douré had previously spent nearly a decade at Statistics Canada where he held several positions including Chief of Dissemination for the Census and Senior Economist. Douré is a founding member and co-chair of the Black Voices and Resources Network at PCO. Douré grew up in Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa) and moved to Canada in 1999 to pursue his university studies. He is a trained economist with a Bachelor from McGill University, a Master from Université de Montréal and a PhD from Western University.

Jillian Bracken, Community Arts & Culture Manager, City of Lethbridge, AB (PhD Music 2015)

Farrah Nakhaie, Program Manager, Community Investments, Ontario Trillium Foundation (PhD English 2022)

This is a virtual session. Please register via Zoom.

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Character Leadership Workshop Retreat

May 21 & 22, 2025, 12:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. *2-day workshop*

This two-day workshop will be held at the Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre (551 Windermere Rd.). Lunch will be served at noon each day followed by the workshop from 1:00pm-4:30pm each day. Participants in this workshop will:

- Learn how Character Leadership provides a competitive advantage and transcends industries, disciplines, roles and ranks
- Conceptualize character as a holistic construct of 11 interconnected dimensions foundational to excellence in judgement and decision-making
- Explore how global leaders continuously emphasize the importance of character at all levels in all sectors
- Develop a greater understanding of personal character and access tools and resources to enhance leadership and performance
- Identify ways that character can be applied to systems and organizations to create sustained excellence

About the instructor: Kimberley Milani is the Director of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at Ivey Business School. Kimberley co-founded Ivey’s Women’s Leadership and Mentoring Program (LAMP) and was a member of Ivey’s EDI Advisory Council for four years. Prior to Ivey, Kimberly was the Director of The Circle Women’s Centre at Brescia for ten years and Director of Brescia’s Institute for Women in Leadership (IWIL) for seven years. Kimberley is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Oxford University in the UK. She is the author of CHARACTER: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach us about Building a More Just, Prosperous and Sustainable Future, co-written with her colleague, Gerard Seijts. Kimberley has conducted extensive public speaking and workshop facilitation on character leadership and women’s leadership in Canada and the US.

Space is limited so register now!

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