Todd Asman
Executive Vice President, Products and Financial Planning
IG Wealth Management

Upcoming events
Programs
Faculty and staff
Faculty and Staff
James W. Burns Leadership Institute Advisory Board
The James W. Burns Leadership Institute Advisory Board is a broad-based group of senior leaders from community, postsecondary and business organizations. They provide advice as a sounding board and source of input into strategic planning and programming for the Institute
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Diane Gray
President and CEO
Centre Port Canada -
Charles Henaire
Executive Vice President, Deputy CFO, Chief Accounting and Control Officer
Great-West Life -
Lisa Kassenaar
Senior Writer and Editor
Global Women's Coverage, Voice of America -
Mary Jane Maillet Brownscombe [BComm(Hons)/88, MA/11]
Indigenous Business Relations Executive-in-Residence,
Asper School of Business
Founder of SHEanalytics -
Mike Nader
President and Chief Executive Officer, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority -
Dawn Nedohin-Macek
Board Member, Engineers Canada
Telecommunications Department Manager, Manitoba Hydro -
Shreeraj Patel [BComm(Hons)/02, MBA]
Vice President, Commercial Financial Services, RBC -
Peter Pomart
Director, Indigenous Business Education Partners
Asper School of Business -
Colin Ryan
President, The Associates, Asper Business School
Senior Vice President, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at BMO Nesbitt Burns -
Dr. Samar Safi-Harb
Canada Research Chair in Supernova Remnants Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba -
Trudy Schroeder
Executive Director
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra -
Dr. Dan Smith
Vice -President Research and Academic
University College of the North -
Dr. Leisha Strachan
Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management -
Dr. Mark Torchia
Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning
University of Manitoba -
Dr. Christine Watson
Vice-President Academic
Red River College
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Past Advisory Board Members
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Dr. Marcia Anderson
Executive Director of Indigenous Academic Affairs in the Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba -
Devon Clunis
Former Chief of Police
Winnipeg Police Service -
Dr. Gady Jacoby
Former Dean and CPA Manitoba Chair, Asper School of Business -
Mariette Mulaire
President and CEO, World Trade Centre Winnipeg -
Dr. Janice Ristock
Provost and VP Academic
University of Manitoba -
John Kearsey
Vice-President (External)
University of Manitoba -
Neil Taylor
Former chairman
Investors Group Securities Inc- Learn more about Neil Taylor
Leadership highlights and takeaways
Co-LEAD International Research Network
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The fourth international Co-LEAD Net Research conference was hosted by Canada Life Chair and JWBLI Director Dr. Suzanne Gagnon in October 2019. Scholars from Canada, the US, South America and Europe attended this bi-annual conference to present new research on understanding leadership as an often collective and social endeavor. It was previously hosted at McGill University and New York University.
Thank you to the Scientific Committee for supporting and contributing to the 2019 Co-LEAD conference, hosted at the Asper School of Business by Dr. Suzanne Gagnon, Director, James W. Burns Leadership Institute.
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Professor Sonia Ospina, Wagner Graduate School of Public Affairs (NYU)
Professor Kathryn Quick, University of Minnesota
Professor Viviane Sergi, Université du Québec à Montréal
Professor Ann Langley, HEC Montréal
Professor Suzanne Gagnon, I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba
Contact us
James W. Burns Leadership Institute
Room 414 Drake Centre
181 Freedman Cres.
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry Campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V4