Last Thursday, I attended a panel on Young Leaders in Atlantic Canada on the topic of Corporate Social Responsibility organized for the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network's annual conference, this year, held in Halifax. The panel was organised by Sheila Brown, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs, and was a workshop facilitator at this past November's Emerging Leaders Summit in St Andrews where she led a session on team-building.
When introducing the panel, to my surprise, Sheila gave a great shout-out to 21inc and our community. As she explained to me, the Summit has led to her thinking more about emerging leaders, which sparked her initiative of organizing this young leaders panel at the conference. Furthermore, when it came time to find some panellists, she picked up her program from the Summit, and browsed through it to get some ideas of leaders she could invite to be on the panel. 2 of the 3 panellists, she knows from the 21inc relationships she built at the Summit with our alumni; Michelle Strum (Alteregos Café / Halifax Backpackers) and Todd McDonald (Give to Live), whom she met through Ashley Ward (Give to Live) (Emerging Leaders Summit).
It was awesome to bare witness to the 21inc community and to know that people are continuing to build and nurture relationships with other community members...especially when staff has nothing to do with it.
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