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Expanding my capacity for leadership: Reflecting on my experience in the Emerging Leaders Program
Jake Howran, Emerging Leaders Spring 2021 alumnus and co-valedictorian shares his experience in the Emerging Leaders Program.

Advance Your Leadership Potential
Leadership is an essential life skill that can be taught and refined. Develop your leadership skills with the Emerging Leaders Program.

Programs for a new generation of innovative health leaders
Introducing the Health Leadership Academy's 2021 leadership programming for aspiring and current health leaders.

New strategic alliance promotes excellence in health leadership
The Canadian College of Health Leaders has awarded LEADS certification to the Health Leadership Academy for Emerging Leaders and Pathfinder.

What does it mean to be a design thinker?
Innovation by Design (IBD) gives students from all disciplines the opportunity to solve broad challenges through a human-centred lens.

Strategic foresight as a critical health leadership capability: Reflections on imagining and designing for alternative futures
Professor Sean Park reflects on strategic foresight as a critical health leadership capability in his Innovation By Design course.

Finding Opportunity in Crisis: designing a new world
Design thinking changes the way you think and the way you work, said Karel Vredenburg, of IBM.

Emerging Leaders have the confidence and humility to say “I don’t know” in a crisis
Emerging Leaders Program alumni discuss the leadership role new residents can play in a changing healthcare landscape.

“Leadership is often crisis mode” HLA’s McQueen and fellow panelist reflect on the role of coaching for leadership in complex times
Challenging times highlight the complexity of leadership and the continued importance of coaching, says Greg McQueen of HLA.

Cross-Campus Collaborators Assess How to Tackle Abusive Behaviours in the Clinical Workplace
HLA grant researchers explore the critical issue of mistreatment of students in a clinical setting

Dancifying Life: A New Approach to Parkinson’s Rehabilitation
Director of McMaster's Digital Music Lab Matthew Woolhouse on why music and dance is beneficial for people with Parkinson's Disease (PD).

Embrace the journey: Emerging Health Leaders alumni share their experiences with incoming cohort
Emerging Health Leaders alumni share their insights with the incoming spring 2019 cohort