Thursday, February 11, 2010

Leaders of Tomorrow

I'm in Halifax for a couple days this week, meeting with partners, potential partners, and friends old and new. Over dinner tonight I was speaking with someone I'm starting to think of as a mentor/role model and he had an interesting way to speak about our work.

He said, when you're talking to people here (he meant in Nova Scotia), you need to ask them "What are we doing for our leaders of tomorrow?" Now imagine 20 years ago if more time had been spent developing their leadership abilities.

That's a powerful way to think about systemic change. Take people back to a time in their lives when leadership development would have been formative. What would be different today? Imagine our future when we do this for the leaders of tomorrow.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Adrienne O'Pray


The TJ has a good story this morning on the latest incarnation of Adrienne O'Pray. The former COO of the Atlantic Lottery Corporation is now joining Ambir Solutions in their new management consultancy.

I met Adrienne while she was at ALC in the spring of 2008. When the New Brunswick Business Council and 21inc partnered on the Ideas Festival in 2008, we were introduced as ALC was our presenting partner.

I vividly remember her respect for dialogue, for making space for innovation inside organizations, and desire to see people rise to their potential. It was in one of our conversations that we came up with the theme of the most successful panel discussion at the Festival, What's the Matter with Excellence?

We're happy to be able to bring her back into the 21inc fold this weekend in Moncton for our 2nd Accelerator. She'll be joining Andrew Oland, President of Moosehead Breweries and Louis Philippe Gauthier, General Manager at l'Etoile to engage the 21 leaders in a discussion on NB's place in the world.