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Visiting Social Enterprises in the Inner City
Post Contributed By: Krysta Wojtowicz, Johnston Group | Leadership Winnipeg Class of 2020-2022 On June 16, 2022 the theme of our Leadership Winnipeg session was ‘Social Enterprises & the Inner…
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Danya Spiring shares her diverse and extensive career experience at Leadership Winnipeg
Post Contributed By: Samantha Bailley, Leadership Winnipeg Class of 2020-21 On December 11th, Leadership Winnipeg had the pleasure of hearing a presentation by Danya Spiring on her diverse and extensive…
The Importance of Volunteering
Post Contributed By: Nicole Fontaine, Leadership Winnipeg Class of 2020-21 On November 20th, during our Leadership Winnipeg class, we received Board Governance Training from the Executive Director of Volunteer…
Why is volunteering so important to Manitobans?
Post Contributed By: Karen ‘Rudy’ Rudolph, Leadership Winnipeg Class of 2020-21 On November 20th, Leadership Winnipeg had the opportunity to hear from Volunteer Manitoba, whose vision is to be the…
Purpose and Perspective
Post Contributed By: Michelle Gazze, Leadership Winnipeg Class of 2020-21 We are at an inflection point across the globe where many of us are thinking about how we can best…
Corporate Social Responsibility must become a core value
Post Contributed By: Harun Kibirige, Leadership Winnipeg Class of 2020-21 If there is one thing I believe in, it is the power of connectedness – a feeling and realization that…
Bringing Back Leadership Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce did an incredible job in bringing back Leadership Winnipeg, in an adapted way: smaller groups and shorter site visits, split up throughout the day, with masks…
A Bridge Between Worlds
On Friday, February 28th, 2020, our Leadership Winnipeg cohort was provided with exposure to how several organizations are working to afford opportunity and support to immigrants and refugees in our…
Learning from the Community
Each Leadership Winnipeg session offers participants the opportunity to understand Winnipeg from a new perspective. Newcomers are a huge part of what makes Winnipeg such a diverse and multicultural city….
Leadership Winnipeg Reflections
Post contributed by Jodi Bond as a part of the Leadership Winnipeg program. As I reflect upon our Leadership Winnipeg session, I am humbled and extremely proud of the non-profit Indigenous-led…
A new perspective through Leadership Winnipeg
Post contributed by Alec Ruest as a part of the Leadership Winnipeg program. Last Friday was a packed day of leadership stories through both social justice and social enterprise lenses as…
Paying it forward
Post contributed by Stephanie Halligan as a part of the Leadership Winnipeg program. The culture in Winnipeg has long been one of generosity and volunteerism. As a city we are surrounded…
Leadership in Art
Post contributed by Sunny Singh The great American Scholar Warren Bennis once said “Leadership is the capacity to translate Vision into Reality.” As I was staring at guests from the…
Agitated by Art
Post contributed by Brent Retzlaff Tom Hendry said that “theatre should give a city an image of its soul”. As a co-founder of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Hendry served as the…
Reconciliation at Leadership Winnipeg
Post contributed by Maria Cristina Laureano Recently, in a Circles For Reconciliation I’m participating in at work, someone posed the question whether actual change has happened since the 2015 Calls to…
Leadership Winnipeg Blog Post, October 20th Session at Government House
Post contributed by Rhonda Taylor, CEO of Career Trek Inc. www.thebalancesmb.com defines leadership simply as “the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal; even…
Leadership Winnipeg Always a Surprise
This article was submitted by Taz Lakhani, as a part of the Leadership Winnipeg course. Leadership Winnipeg sessions…
Winnipeg – the Start-Up Capital of Western Canada?
This article was submitted by Matt Johnston, as a part of the Leadership Winnipeg course. When you think about where to build a successful Start-Up, you think of cities like…
Immigrant Centre/Welcome Place and Holy Names House of Peace
Article provided by Joanne McKay, as part of the Leadership Winnipeg program. Having been born and raised here, I have often wondered what would motivate someone to move to Winnipeg….
Adding to Winnipeg’s Diversity
Mohandas K. Gandhi said, “No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive”. Winnipeg embraces diversity and has many organizations that are invested in the success of our Newcomers…
The Social Enterprise Centre | A Collaborative Workspace in Winnipeg’s North End
Written by Mike Choi, Territory Manager at Canadian Blood Services January’s Leadership Winnipeg session took us around Winnipeg’s inner city where some of our most marginalized communities live. We…
An Intertwined and Complicated City
Written by Carmyn Peppler, Director, Operations, Event Services and Food & Beverage at RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg Art Ladd, Executive Director, BUILD Inc. Until today, I had no idea that so…
