Awards and accolades for faculty and advisory board members

By Shari Bishop Bowes

Many people who have taken part in Leadership Development programs at The Banff Centre credit our dedicated faculty with helping them achieve a pivotal experience in their lives and careers. Our participants tell us faculty foster profound growth by helping them take the time to focus and reflect on their leadership journey.

Leadership Development faculty, along with members of our Leadership Development Advisory Board, are continuing to reach great heights themselves – winning awards, achieving milestones in their own careers, and gaining accolades for publishing in the leadership field.

Here’s just a short list of recent achievements by faculty and Advisory Board members that we’d like to share with you:
      
Dr. Nancy Adler
Dr. Nancy Adler, a member of the Leadership Development Advisory Board and an international management professor at McGill University, has recently received recognition and accolades for her work in applied research and publishing, and for her work as a visual artist.

In September, an art and leadership exhibition titled Reality in Translation: Going Beyond the Dehydrated Language of Management  was presented by Dr. Adler at Galerie MX in Montreal.

Recently, Dr. Adler’s Leadership Insight journal, including 27 of her paintings, was published by Routledge.

Dr. Adler’s 2009 article, When knowledge wins: Transcending the sense and nonsense of academic rankings, was awarded Outstanding Article of the Year by the 2009 Academy of Management Learning and Education.

 Irene Pfeiffer
Irene Pfeiffer, another member of our Leadership Development Advisory Board, has earned recognition both regionally and nationally for her work in philanthropy and as the first non-physician president of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA).

Pfeiffer was chosen, along with Banff Centre President and CEO Mary Hoffstetter, as one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People , by Alberta Venture magazine. Pfeiffer was also awarded a Lifetime Philanthropist Award by Business in Calgary magazine. And recently, she was nominated to the Transformational Canadians program in the Globe and Mail.

MOTUS O
MOTUS O , dance troupe in residence for the Leading for Results program, received the Artist of the Year award this month at Ontario Contact 2010, an annual conference that showcases the best of Canadian and International artists. MOTUS O’s contribution to our leadership development programming is one of the few examples of movement-based approaches to leadership development in the world. Based in Stouffville, Ontario, MOTUS O fuses dance, theatre, film, and music, running the theatrical gamut from pathos to comedy.

Harvey Seifter
Advisory Board member Harvey Seifter has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to convene three conferences on arts-based learning in the sciences. The U.S. conferences, planned for 2011, are intended to foster arts-based learning in informal science education.

Seifter also edited a special edition of the prestigious Journal of Business Strategy. The special edition, published in June, focused on arts-based approaches to corporate learning. Contributors to the special edition included advisory board member Nancy Adler, with an introductory article by Leadership Development executive director Nick Nissley framing the special edition.

Elder Tom Crane Bear
Elder Tom Crane Bear served as elder in residence and spiritual and cultural advisor for Aboriginal Leadership and Management program participants until his retirement earlier this year. In May, Crane Bear received national recognition for the important work he has done over more than 40 years, earning the 2010 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Culture, Heritage, and Spirituality. Learn more about Elder Tom as he reflects on the gifts of native culure and spirituality in the Buffalo Mountain Drum magazine.