Executive Education

Broaden and Enrich Your Leadership Capabilities

Delivered by faculty from Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, this member only program is designed to broaden and enrich your leadership capabilities and help you develop innovative approaches to real-time business challenges. Each session provides hands-on learning across a wide of range of business management topics through two streams: Agile Leadership and Strategy and Intrapreneurship.

Earn a Certificate of Completion

Complete three sessions or more and receive a Certificate of Completion from Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University.

Advance your leadership capabilities and grow your career professionally

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for for business professionals with a minimum of 10 years professional experience.

For more information on this program, contact execed@bot.com.

Whether you wish to nurture your top talent or leverage the seminars for your own professional development, our unique partnership with the Ted Rogers School of Management provides the opportunity to access customized content delivered by award winning faculty at a nominal fee.

Connect with Faculty and Like-Minded Peers

Led by Ryerson, these sessions are practical and applicable to the workplace. Participants will have the opportunity to tap into thought leadership, discuss best practices and develop new connections with other senior level executives.

Customized TRSM Curriculum for Senior Executives

This program is designed for business professionals with a minimum of 10 years professional experience.

It provides the opportunity for professionals who wish to advance their leadership capabilities and grow their career professionally. Small classroom sessions ensure an intimate learning experience.

Program Exclusivity

The program is limited to members of Toronto Region Board of Trade* as a member benefit Enrol today.

*Premium-level membership tiers apply.

Grow Your Professional Career

Obtain a Certificate of Completion when you complete 3 or more sessions.

Enhance your leadership and management principles through two streams offered through the Executive Education program:

Agile Leadership

Be an adaptable, inclusive and courageous leader

In this stream, you will explore ethical issues that are unique to leadership and learn how to identify opportunities to take risks and find creative solutions to business problems. By developing these skills, you will build resilience and learn to cope with challenges in an ethical and thoughtful manner.

Strategy and Intrapreneurship

Excel as an entrepreneurial-minded, forward-thinking and values focused employee

This stream will provide you with new approaches and frameworks to “think outside the box” and garner support of key decision-makers to help you create new products, services and systems. You will learn how to be an agile, innovative employee capable of driving new projects and exploring unexpected directions for business development.

The Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM) is committed to fostering relevant, inter-disciplinary research to expand and disseminate management knowledge. There are 12 research centres and institutes within TRSM where faculty members partner with Ryerson University departments, with other Canadian and international universities and with many business enterprises to produce research that will improve society and the economy.

Learn more about Ted Rogers School of Management’s Executive and Corporate Education programming at: www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/execed/

	Dr. Phil Walsh, BSc, MBA, PhD Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management Dr. Walsh teaches and researches in the fields of innovation and strategic management. Prior to joining the academic ranks, he was the managing director of an energy consultancy and co-founder of a number of start-up energy companies.

	Andre Serero Executive-in-Residence at Ryerson University and fellow at the Ted Rogers School of Management Leadership Centre Andre has worked for Bell Canada International, and as a senior executive for the holding company that oversees CTV, serving as head of its legal and business affairs team. He is currently a strategic partner to Rosenzweig & Co., a high-end executive search firm.

	Janice Rudkowski Assistant Professor, Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Ryerson University Janice Rudkowski is an Assistant Professor at Ted Rogers School of Retail Management. Janice has over 20 years’ of diverse industry experience across fashion, consumer packaged goods, toys, retail, healthcare, technology, non-profit and HR services sectors. Janice holds a BAA in Fashion from Ryerson University, an MBA in Marketing from York University, an MSc in Business and Management Research from University of Reading and is currently working towards a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at Henley Business School, UK.

	Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre and Founding Director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Education and Research program, at the Ted Rogers School of Management Chris is also a Nonresident Senior Scholar at Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. He is a popular keynote speaker and makes frequent media appearances.

	The Honourable David C. Dingwall, P.C., Q.C. Distinguished Visiting Professor David C. Dingwall has been a distinguished visiting professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management since May 2011. Dingwall has extensive experience in the private and public sectors on a domestic and international level. Dingwall speaks directly to his experience in alternate dispute mechanisms, labour, corporate governance, corporate/commercial and entrepreneurial management. A world traveller, he has conducted business in Australia, China, Switzerland, Israel, France, Thailand, United States and many more countries.

	Dr. Maurice Mazerolle Associate Professor, Department of Human Resources and Associate Director of Student Affairs, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University Dr. Maurice Mazerolle is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Business Management and the former director of the Centre for Labour Management Relations. Professor Mazerolle has 15 years of experience in labour relations with a px range of commissions, associations and government agencies including but not limited to the Saint John Construction Association, Ontario Hospital Association and the Education Relations Commission, Ontario.

	Brent Barr Instructor, Ryerson University and Founder, KIRE Company Brent has an extensive business & volunteer background. With over twenty five years of business experience, he has worked with an international clothing company and two of the world’s largest multinational organizations, Johnson & Johnson and Colgate Palmolive. Within those he enjoyed positions such as Regional Sales Manager, Category Management Director, Director & VP of Marketing and Sales among various others. From these positions, Brent managed a wide array of product divisions and generated year-over-year, double-digit revenue and profit growth through innovative strategic marketing and business strategies. Strategies he brings to his own organization today.

	Dr. Ron Babin Associate Professor at Ryerson's Ted Rogers School of Management Dr Ron Babin is an Associate Professor at Ryerson’s Ted Rogers School of Management. His specialty is examining and describing how organizations use information technology to become more capable and competitive. He joined Ryerson University after several decades of IT industry experience, notably as a management consultant partner at Accenture and at KPMG. Recently he has developed conceptual frameworks regarding global IT outsourcing and how social responsibility can be embedded into the outsourcing transaction. He has published several books and papers on this topic. Currently his research and teaching is focused on digital disruption. Ron is leading the development of the Ryerson Professional Masters Diploma in Managing Technology and Innovation, which will be focused on CIOs.

	Dr. Frederic Dimanche Director, Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Frederic obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon (USA). He then worked as a Professor in the School of Hotel Restaurant and Tourism Administration at the University of New Orleans. After over 15 years in the USA, where he also worked as Research Director of The Olinger Group, a full service marketing research firm, he joined SKEMA Business School in 2001 to create and develop on the French Riviera the Center for Tourism Management and award-winning Master programs in tourism, event, and hospitality management. Frederic joined Ryerson University in 2015. He has contributed as a guest lecturer or as a consultant to universities, private companies, and national or regional tourism organizations in Canada, France, the USA, and other countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Frederic is a past President of the Travel and Tourism Research Association Europe.

	Dr. Gail Cook Johnson Executive-in-Residence at the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre Dr. Johnson, as a business consultant, has worked, over the last three decades, with many leading North American organizations to help them effectively implement change in response to strategic change, market challenges, service delivery needs, and growth. At the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre, she works with academic leaders and business practitioners to facilitate the development of the Centre’s case studies and e-learning tools, applying change management principles and practices.

About TRSM

The Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University offers customized executive programs that are tailored to your organization’s strategy, culture and talent development objectives. Each program is designed with the Ryerson edge for innovative thinking and practical application.

Our expert faculty work with your executive team to develop programs that prepare your business of the opportunities of tomorrow. Combining real-world challenges and academic thought leadership, a Ted Rogers School of Management custom program enables and engages your leadership to address key business priorities.

To find out more on custom programs for your business, contact trsmexeced@ryerson.ca or 416-979-5287

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