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Primary Facilitators
Lisa Jackson
Staff
An optimistic realist, my objective is always to shine a little light into the lives of others, and I'm not afraid of breaking a few rules in order to do so. As Director, Operations with the Lougheed Leadership Institute, I get to play, lead, learn, reflect and activate - in service of the creation of new ideas, stories, and ways of being/knowing/doing. I'm so lucky to be able to do this within the context of one of the world's great creative institutions - The Banff Centre.
Unique area of expertise
Seeing talent where others may not (and creating space for the development of that talent)
Most significant career transition
Being accountable for leading the creation of a start-up-like new entity within a 80+ year institution!
Haiku describing my role with Lougheed Leadership
Shine light towards others,
serendipitous results,
beauty and meaning
Greatest advice I ever received
People won't remember how much you worked after you're gone. Don't let your legacy be how late you stay.
When I'm at my best
When I'm having fun or being playful.
Soundtrack of my life
Brian Calliou
Director, Indigenous Leadership and Management
Brian Calliou is a First Nations thought leader. He is Cree from northwestern Alberta, and married with two grown children and three grandchildren. Brian is a lawyer by training and remains connected with the Indigenous Bar Association. He has a strong commitment to social justice and views his work as helping to build a better world. Indigenous Leadership Programming's purpose reflects this commitment by developing leaders who want to make change and create a better world.
As the Director of Indigenous Leadership and Management, Brian leads a team of very dedicated people who also want to see a better world. He researches and writes about Indigenous community economic development, from a strength-based approach, that is, from a basis of stories of Indigenous organizational success. We call this a wise practices approach to community economic development, where we have identified seven elements that lead to success, including the central importance of Indigenous knowledge and wisdom. In our research we have found that culture and identity are important areas that Indigenous leaders want to protect and cultivate as they face contemporary challenges and opportunities.
Brian is passionate about First Nations control of First Nations education.
His favourite TED Talk is by Winona LaDuke, Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life.
Alexia McKinnon
Associate Director, Indigenous Leadership and Management and Cultural Leadership Co-lead Faculty
Alexia McKinnon has recently been appointed as the new Director, Indigenous Business Programs at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. An alumnus of SFU Beedie’s Executive MBA in Indigenous Business Leadership (EMBA IBL) program, and a citizen of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nation, McKinnon has a wealth of experience with Indigenous education and governance. McKinnon joins the school from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, where she was Associate Director, Indigenous Leadership and Management, and Cultural Leadership Co-Lead Faculty. In 2016, she curated a regional Truth and Reconciliation Summit from which she co-edited a report that was utilized to design Banff Centre’s Truth and Reconciliation Through Right Relations program. Her prior roles include: Indigenous Community Projects Lead, and Personal Learning Advisor at Banff Centre; Cultural Centre Coordinator with the Champagne and Aishihik First Nation, where she raised funds to build a new cultural centre; and Special Assistant to the Premier of the Yukon Government.
Russell Willis Taylor
Lead Facilitator
Russell Willis Taylor was President and CEO of National Arts Strategies in the United States from January 2001 to January 2015, before coming to Banff Centre. She has extensive senior experience in strategic business planning, financial analysis and planning, and all areas of operational management. Educated in England and America, she served as director of development for the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art before returning to England in 1984 at the invitation of the English National Opera (ENO) to establish the Company's first fund-raising department. During this time, she also lectured extensively at graduate programs of nonprofit management and arts and business management throughout Britain. From 1997 to 2001, she rejoined the ENO as executive director.
Mrs. Willis Taylor has held a wide range of managerial and Board posts in the commercial and nonprofit sectors including the advertising agency DMBB; head of corporate relations at Stoll Moss; director of The Arts Foundation; special advisor to the Heritage Board, Singapore; chief executive of Year of Opera and Music Theatre (1997); judge for Creative Britons and lecturer on business issues and arts administration. She received the Garrett Award for an outstanding contribution to the arts in Britain, the only American to be recognized in this way. She was part of the founding team with Diana, Princess of Wales, for the National Aids Trust in the UK, and a member of the 1998 Parliamentary Review Committee on Nonprofit Management.
Mrs. Willis Taylor currently serves on the advisory boards of the Salzburg Global Seminar, the British Council's Arts & Creative Economy Advisory Group, The Charlottesville Community Foundation, Fractured Atlas. and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2013, Mrs. Willis Taylor was honored with the International Citation of Merit by the International Society for the Performing Arts, presented in recognition of her lifetime achievement and her distinguished service to the performing arts. She has written a number of articles on nonprofits and cultural management and on policy issues in arts and culture.