Queen's Leadership Program

The Program is built around a four-step process:

Queen's Leadership Program can help you become a more effective leader.

• Learn the personal and organizational skills you need to be an effective leader
• Gain a better understanding of your leadership capabilities
• Learn how to apply the principles of transformational leadership
• Expand your coaching, team leadership, and project management skills
• Build better relationships within and outside your organization
• Exchange ideas and experiences with Queen's faculty and fellow participants
• Return to work with proven tools to achieve lasting change in the way teams work together
• Learn how to lead a healthy and balanced life through the Program's optional Lifestyle Component

Enhancing your leadership skills will have a significant impact across your organization.

• Achieve your strategic goals with stronger, more committed teams
• Help the people you work with perform at their peak
• Create an atmosphere of trust, mutual support, and open communication
• Develop a high-performance culture in your organization
• Benchmark against the best leadership practices of the world's most successful companies
• Build high-performance expectations into everyday management practices

Outstanding Session Leaders

Session leaders include senior professors from Queen’s School of Business and knowledgeable experts from industry. These outstanding teachers are constantly in touch with today’s business world through real-world business experience, Board memberships and their own consulting practices.

Dr.  Julian Barling - Organizational Behaviour,
Queen's School of Business

Julian Barling is the former Associate Dean of Research and former Director of the PhD and MSc programs at Queen’s School of Business. An authority on transformational leadership, he has received numerous awards for teaching and research. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and named a Queen's Research Chair in 2002. In 2008, he was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and received Queen's University's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. He is the author of over 175 articles and numerous books, the most recent of which are the Handbook of Work Stress, the Handbook of Workplace Violence, and the Handbook of Organizational Behavior.

Ms.  Peggy Baumgartner - Consultant, Performance Coaching Inc

In her role as consultant with Performance Coaching Inc., Peggy Baumgartner combines her speaking and training talents with 13 years of experience at IBM, and with experience in performance consulting, course design and development, curriculum management, business processes, and sales. She utilizes practical solutions, experience, and humour to help others optimize their performance along with the performance of those that they manage. Ms. Baumgartner has instructed and worked with businesses, universities and government agencies in China, Belgium, the Caribbean, and North America. Her ability to assess needs, to design and to deliver measurable results have won her numerous awards for innovation, excellence, and leadership.

Dr.  Peter Jensen - Founder and CEO, Performance Coaching Inc

Peter Jensen is an internationally recognized authority on high performance. Since achieving his PhD in Sports Psychology, he has attended six Olympic Games as a member of the Canadian Olympic team and has worked with over 40 medal-winning athletes and coaches. He is currently the mental training consultant for Canada's Olympic women's hockey team. He is the author of The Inside Edge, a book that describes how to improve both your personal and organizational performance under pressure, and Igniting the Third Factor, a book on how to inspire greatness in others. Dr. Jensen is the founding partner of Performance Coaching Inc., a corporate training firm. He has been featured on ABC, CBS, CBC and CTV. Past corporate clients include BP, Nexen, TD, Syncrude, Labatt, Hydro One, RCMP, GE Capital, and Royal Bank.

Dr.  Shawna O'Grady - Human Resources and Team-Building,
Queen's School of Business

Shawna O'Grady is an authority on strategic human resources management, team-building, and the cross-cultural aspects of international business. She is an experienced team facilitator who is in high demand for her original approach to team-building. She is also the author of Border Crossings – Doing Business in the U.S., an award-winning book on international business. She has consulted with many organizations including Microsoft, MDS, Mattel, Shoppers Drug Mart, Enbridge Consumers Gas, Industry Canada, BMW, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Xerox, Bell Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Ministry of Finance, Canada Post Corporation, and TD Canada Trust.

Session Leaders are subject to change.