International Executive Program in Mining Leadership

Program content is divided into two modules:

• Module 1 - Leading in the External Environment

  • A shared understanding of future key success factors for leaders within the mining industry. What makes a highly successful mining company from a multiple stakeholder perspective
  • Managing the external environment: Frameworks for building and maintaining successful relationships (communities, government)
  • Effective Risk Management strategies pertaining to the environment, permitting, energy, water, climate change and sustainability
  • Corporate social responsibility and stewardship
  • Challenges of doing business in an international environment/developing country
  • Public versus private ownership and the implications for international development
  • The strategic perspective

• Module 2 - Leading in the Internal Environment

  • The increasing diversity of Canadian society and rapidly changing values
  • The "politics of difference" and sharpening disputes and divisions in Canadian society
  • The changing role of governments in an environment of increasing demands for accountability, efficiency, and effectiveness
  • Increased demands for citizen engagement in the policy process
  • Addressing the balance between management and policy in efficient and capable government