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JULIAN BARLING
Leadership

Julian is the author of The Science of Leadership: Lessons From Research for Organizational Leaders, which was published by Oxford University Press (New York) in January, 2014. His research interests focus on the nature and development of transformational leadership and employee well-being, and he is also the author of well over 200 research articles and book chapters, and the author or editor of several books, including Employment, Stress and Family Functioning (1990, Wiley & Sons); The Union and Its Members: A Psychological Approach (1992, Oxford University Press); Changing Employment Relations: Behavioral and Social Perspectives (1995, American Psychological Association); Young Workers (1999, American Psychological Association); and The Psychology of Workplace Safety (2004, American Psychological Association).  He is also co-editor of the Handbook of Workplace Violence (2006, SAGE Publications), and senior editor of both the Handbook of Work Stress (2005), Handbook of Organizational Behaviour (2008), all published by SAGE, The Psychology of Green Organizations (2015, Oxford University Press), and most recently, Work and Sleep: Research Insights for the Workplace, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2016.

 

Julian was formerly the editor of the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, served as the chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Workplace Violence in 2001-2, and was the chairperson of the Advisory Council on Occupational Health and Safety to the Ontario Minister of Labour from 1989-1991.

 

Julian is a Fellow for the Royal Society of Canada, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Canadian Psychological Association.

 

MacLean’s magazine named Julian as one of Queen’s University’s most popular professors in 1996.  Julian received the National Post’s “Leaders in Business Education” award in 2001, and Queen’s University’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision in 2008.

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KATHRYN BROHMAN
Strategic Execution

Associate professor at Smith School of Business and co-author of Project Leadership: Creating Value with an Adaptive Project Organization and forthcoming book entitled Sustainable Execution. Kathryn’s leading edge work combines practice with theory to explore ways organizations can effectively execute strategy with a specific focus on the impact of technology and digital transformation. Kathryn’s research has been published in premier journals and her thought-leadership is influenced by collaboration with a number of organizations including the Canada Health Infoway, Molson Coors, Bell Canada, 3M, UPS, and Delta Airlines.

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SHAI DUBEY
Negotiation and Management

Shai Dubey teaches courses in negotiations, cross-cultural management, ethics, domestic and international business law and entrepreneurship.

 

He is the academic director for project courses in various MBA programs as well as the MIB program.

 

Shai has served as the director of the Cornell-Queen’s EMBA program (now EMBAA), the MIB program, the Graduate Diploma in Business program as well the Full-time MBA program.

 

Shai earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Toronto and his Law Degree from Queen’s University. Shai is also a graduate of the aviation Flight Technology Program at Seneca College.

 

After graduating from Seneca College in 1984, he began his working career as a commercial pilot. In 1985 he founded and ran both an executive aircraft charter company and a flight training school based in Toronto. After selling this company, Shai worked as an aviation consultant providing strategic and regulatory advice to Canadian and foreign clients.

 

Upon completing law school in 1994, Shai articled and practiced law with two major law firms in Toronto, specializing in corporate commercial law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and aviation.

 

In 1999, Shai became the Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and a member of the Board of Directors of Quicklaw Inc., the leading provider of legal online data base services to the legal profession in Canada. In 2002, upon the sale of Quicklaw to a multi-national corporation Shai returned to the private practice of law. In 2006, Shai joined Queen’s on a full time basis.

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JAY HANDELMAN
Marketing

Jay Handelman is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Smith School of Business. He was the founding Director of Queen’s Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility. His research and teaching interests centre on ways in which marketers integrate emotional, social, and cultural dimensions into their product/service and corporate marketing strategies. This has led to areas of investigation that include the integration of corporate social responsibility into a corporation’s brand identity; the development of culture/emotion-based branding; and how marketers interact with not only consumers, but also a broader range of societal constituents such as consumer activists and NGOs. Some of his work has been published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and other journals and numerous national and international conferences. Jay Handelman has also been recognized by students for his teaching with teaching awards and nominations.

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ELSPETH MURRAY
Strategic Execution

Elspeth Murray has served as the Associate Dean – MBA and Masters Programs since 2012, and has been a professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Smith School of Business since 1996. She also holds the CIBC Fellowship in Entrepreneurship, and founded Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing. Prior to joining Queen’s, she worked in industry for 7 years for several firms including IBM, and Canadian Tire. As an integral part of her work in the strategy and new venture fields, Dr. Murray specializes in the management of change. In 2002, she co-authored a best-selling book, Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, Oxford University Press, with Dr. Peter Richardson. She has recently co-developed (with Dr. David Saunders) the Analytics Climate Assessment Tool (ACAT), which is used to assess organizations technological capacity, skill sets, and analytics culture. Current research is focused on best practices in leading and managing change to create an analytics culture.

 

Dr. Murray teaches on many Smith MBA and Executive Education programs, and consults widely with a diversity of firms including BMW, Detour Gold, Wawanesa Insurance, Versacold Logistics and the Auditor General for Canada. She serves as a Director for several firms and is an advisor to several start-ups and CEO’s. Dr. Murray received an undergraduate degree in computer science and mathematics, and an MBA, both from Queen’s University. Her doctorate in Strategy and Management Information Systems was completed at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

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PETER RICHARDSON
Strategy & Change

Peter Richardson has been a faculty member of the School of Business for 37 years. He teaches both introductory and advanced strategy courses in the School of Business on the Executive MBA programs and on a number of the School’s one and three week Continuing Education programs.


Together with Elspeth Murray, Peter has authored a book, entitled Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, published by the Oxford University Press in 2002. An accompanying Guide was published early in 2003. Through his research and associated consulting activities, he has developed a unique concept of Strategy as Action, and has written several papers on this topic. During his 30-plus years at Queen’s University, Peter has authored over 90 papers and case studies on strategic management. In his previous book, Cost Containment: The Ultimate Strategic Advantage, one of the few books written on cost improvement, Peter described a novel strategic approach to cost improvement that has been adopted in many organizations in both the public and private sectors. At present, Peter is exploring the impact of the increasing demand for speed in business, which he believes has profound implications for organization change, strategy implementation, risk management and organization processes.


Peter consults widely with both public and private sector organizations, working closely for extended periods with senior executives on strategy development and deployment. Corporate clients have included Codelco, Vale, Anglo-American Corporation, Alcoa, BHP Billiton, Barrick Gold, Bell Canada, CIBC, CIBC-Mellon, De Beers Canada, Ivanhoe Mines, Ivanplats, Redpath Mining, Quadra Chemicals, Gibson Energy, and Xerox. In the Public Sector, clients have included the Supreme Court of Canada, The Office of the Auditor General for Canada, The Surveyor General of Canada, Health Canada, Natural Resources Canada and Health Canada. He has also been retained as a consultant on more than 20 major international mining projects including the successful development and construction of the Collahuasi copper mine in Chile which is to-date the world’s largest and highest single mining project, and the Victor Diamond Mine in Canada – designated globally as the ‘Mine of the Year in 2009’.


Peter has also carried out strategic planning assignments for a number of Associations including the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors, The Consejo Minero de Chile, the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada, the Zinc Association, and the Mining Association of Canada.

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SALMAN MUFTI
Strategic Decision Making

Salman Mufti is the Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at Smith School of Business and Visiting Associate Professor at The Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. His teaching and research specializes in the areas of strategic decision making and information technology strategy.

 

He has extensive teaching experience in both degree and non-degree executive education at Smith School of Business, and with other national and international schools such as University of Alberta School of Business in Canada, Cornell University Johnson School of Management in the United States, Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Pakistan, and IEDC-Bled School of Management in Slovenia. He is the recipient of several Executive MBA and MBA Teaching Excellence Awards.

 

Prior to joining Smith School of Business in 1997, he spent twelve years as a manager and consultant working with organizations in the private and public sectors. He continues to advise senior managers in corporations and the government, and is a regular speaker on corporate conferences and executive education programs. He has a BSc from McMaster University, an MBA from Queen’s University and a PhD from McGill University.

ADVISORY BOARD & CFO-IN-RESIDENCE

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DEAN MCCANN, FCPA
Canada’s CFO of the Year ™ 2015 and Board Member, Audit Committee Chair, Walker Industries 

Dean McCann retired from Canadian Tire in 2020 after a 24 year career with Canadian Tire Corporation during which he helped to steer the business to unprecedented earnings and its most financially successful years in the company’s 97-year history.

 

As Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer for Canadian Tire Corporation, Dean McCann was an integral member of the executive team that successfully led the Company through large scale acquisitions and strategic partnerships, helping to strengthen the Company’s financial flexibility and deliver historic results.

 

Dean continues to serve as a trustee of CT Reit, a publicly listed (TSX) real estate investment trust established in 2013 as well as a Director of Canadian Tire Bank an OSFI regulated Chartered Bank established July 1, 2003. In addition he serves on the Boards of Walker Industries, an extremely successful Niagara based business and Neighbourly Pharmacy a publicly listed retail company (TSX) that completed its initial public offering in mid-2021.

 

Dean has three passions – sport, kids and his community. He has been a member of numerous charitable Boards over his career and currently serves on the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto and as Vice Chair of the Finance and Risk Committee of Queen’s University.

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BRIAN LAWSON
Senior Managing Partner and CFO, Brookfield Asset Management
Canada’s CFO of the Year™ 2012

Since joining Brookfield in 1988, Mr. Lawson has held a number of senior management positions in Brookfield’s investment and finance operations, including serving as CFO of Brookfield Asset Management from 2002 to 2020. In 2013, he was named Canada’s CFO of the Year by PwC, FEI Canada and Robert Half International.

 

Mr. Lawson is a member of the Governing Council of the University of Toronto and Chair of the board of directors of the Community Food Centres Canada. He and his wife support a number of initiatives focused on transforming the food system for better human and planetary health.

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MICHAEL ROUSSEAU
President and CEO, Air Canada
Canada’s CFO of the Year™ 2017

Michael S. Rousseau became Air Canada’s President and Chief Executive Officer in February 2021. He previously was the airline’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Financial Officer, a role held since January 2019. As Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Rousseau had oversight for several significant corporate initiatives and businesses including Air Canada Rouge, in addition to his responsibilities for the airline’s overall financial strategic direction comprising all aspects of financial reporting and planning, investor relations, treasury and controller’s operations, taxation, pension administration, internal audit, procurement and corporate real estate. Since 2007, Mr. Rousseau had been Air Canada’s Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer and he has played a significant and highly strategic role in Air Canada’s successful transformation over the past decade.

 

Prior to Air Canada, Mr. Rousseau held executive positions including those of President, and before that Executive Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer at Canada’s largest diversified general merchandise retailer, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). He has also held senior executive financial positions at other large, international corporations, including Moore Corporation in Chicago, Silcorp Limited and the UCS Group (a division of Imasco Limited).

 

A graduate of York University, Mr. Rousseau has been a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants since 1983. He holds the prestigious FCA and FCPA designations, conferred by CPA Ontario in recognition of his professional achievements and contributions. He was named Canada’s CFO of the YearTM for 2017 by Financial Executives International Canada (FEI Canada), PwC Canada and Robert Half. Mr. Rousseau has been a member of the Board of Directors at Resolute Forest Products since 2010 and he has held several Board memberships of other public companies over the past 18 years.

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GORD NELSON
CFO, Cineplex
Canada’s CFO of the Year™ 2016

Mr. Nelson joined Cineplex in 1988 and has held various successive financial roles since that time. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund in 2004 and has continued in this role following the company’s conversion to the Corporation in 2011. Mr. Nelson oversees the finance, purchasing, communications, risk management and corporate development areas of the Corporation in addition to overseeing eSports. He is a member of the Finance and Audit Committee of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. He graduated from the University of Toronto with an MBA and holds the accounting designations of Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Accountant (CA). Most recently, Mr. Nelson was named Canada’s CFO of the Year for 2016.

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LAURIE TUGMAN
Past Chairman, Nexterra Systems, former CEO & CFO, Marsulex

Laurie Tugman is the Past Chairman of Nexterra Systems Corp. as well as a Board Member of Newalta Corporation (NAL) and Envirosystems Inc. Mr. Tugman has over 30 years’ experience in financial and operational management in the environmental compliance, waste management, and oil and gas industries. He was the former President and CEO of Marsulex Inc. which he joined in 1994 as CFO, progressing to COO and then CEO from 2004 until its sale in June 2011.

Mr. Tugman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1975 and earned his C.A. in 1977. He was elected a Fellow Chartered Accountant in 2011 and was certified by the Institute of Corporate Directors in 2015. A member of Financial Executives International (FEI), he served on FEI’s Board from 2004 to 2007. He has also served on the Chemistry Industry Assn. of Canada’s (CIAC) Board from 2007 to 2011 and was Chairman from 2010 to 2011.

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NATHALIE BERNIER
Senior Vice President, Strategic and Business Planning and Chief Financial Officer
Canada’s CFO of the Year™ 2018

Nathalie Bernier is Senior Vice President, Strategic and Business Planning and Chief Financial Officer of Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP).

 

Nathalie Bernier is a driven and successful leader who has led PSP Investments through a bold and innovative transformation, which has resulted in immediate improvements to the organization’s performance, stakeholder and investor relations, and governance. She is a seasoned professional who leads with passion, courageous and innovative vision, and a commitment to mentoring young talent and developing future leaders.

 

Nathalie Bernier joined the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) in September 2015 as Senior Vice President, Strategic and Business Planning and Chief Financial Officer. With more than 30 years of sector experience, she leads a team spanning seven groups: Finance and Administration; Strategy; Business Planning; Internal Audit; Taxation; Treasury; Public Affairs, Strategic Communications and Government Relations. Mrs. Bernier is also responsible for PSP’s global expansion.

 

Nathalie holds a B. Comm degree from McGill University and is a member of CPA Canada

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BRUCE WATERMAN
Corporate Director, Former CFO Agrium
Canada’s CFO of the Year ™ 2008

Mr. Waterman is a Corporate Director. He retired in January 2013 from Agrium Inc. (now known as Nutrien Ltd.) (a public agricultural company) as Executive Vice-President, having held senior roles as Chief Financial Officer, as well as in Business Development and Strategy, since April 2000. Mr. Waterman is a director of Irving Oil Limited (a private oil and gas company) and a director of Prairie Storm Energy Corp. (a private oil and gas company). He was a director of PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. (a public oil and gas company) from April 2014 until December 2014 and was also a director of Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc., and a Trustee of Enbridge Commercial Trust from January 2014 until December 31, 2017. He was Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Talisman Energy Inc. (a public oil and gas company) from January 1996 to April 2000.


Mr. Waterman also has extensive expertise in oil and gas exploration and production operations, having spent 15 years (1981 to 1996) at Amoco Corporation, including Dome Petroleum Limited, a predecessor company and as a result of serving as Talisman’s Chief Financial Officer for over four years (as noted above). At Amoco (a global chemical, oil and gas company which merged with British Petroleum in 1998), his roles included various positions in finance, accounting and business development.

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PAMELA STEER
Canada’s CFO of the Year™ 2019 and Corporate Director

Pamela Steer is the Chief Financial Officer at Payments Canada. As a member of the executive management team, Pamela has overall responsibility for overseeing the financial and corporate planning functions of the organization.

 

Pamela joined Payments Canada from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), one of the largest insurance organizations in North America, where she was the CFO and Head of Finance and Employer Services.

 

Pamela is also past chair of the CFA Society Toronto, a member of the City of Toronto’s Investment Board and sits on the Advisory Board of the University of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance. In addition, she was appointed to the global advisory council for the Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) under The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation, and is a founding member of the Canadian chapter of the A4S CFO Leadership Network.

 

Pamela holds a Master of Accounting degree from the University of Waterloo, is a CPA Fellow, is accredited as a Chartered Accountant and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Business Valuator designations. In 2019, Pamela was awarded Canada’s CFO of the Year.

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WINNIE LEUNG
Chief Financial Officer, Moneris

As Chief Financial Officer, Winnie Leung is responsible for the overall financial strategy, reporting and Treasury operations of Moneris including making investment and borrowing decisions, providing financial analysis to support business goals, and assessing acquisition targets.

 

Winnie is a strategic, results-oriented leader with over 20 years of experience. Over the course of her career, she has led the development for improved reporting, corporate governance, operations, administration, and internal controls.

 

Prior to Moneris, Winnie was a KPMG Audit Partner, servicing the technology sector. Winnie worked closely with both public and early-stage companies to help build and manage their businesses.

 

Winnie graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.A. in Accountancy Studies and a Masters of Accounting. She holds the Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant designation from the Province of Ontario and Certified Public Accountant designation from the State of Illinois. Winnie also founded the Inclusive Workplace Council and is the Executive Sponsor of Wellness@Moneris.

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LOUIS MARCOTTE
Executive VP & CFO, Intact Financial Corporation

Louis Marcotte is Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at Intact Financial Corporation and is a fiercely revered finance leader across Canada.

 

Louis Marcotte’s FEI Canada résumé is nothing short of remarkable. For over 19 years, Louis has been a deeply well-respected, dedicated and enthusiastic FEI Canada member who has held a plethora of the most significant roles at the organization including Treasurer, Chair of the FEI Canada National Board of Directors, Chair of the 2009 Montreal Conference, Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee, Chair of the Governance Committee, amongst many other roles.

 

Louis has consistently demonstrated exemplary leadership abilities during his time with FEI Canada. His steadfast ambassadorial dynamism for FEI Canada has led to considerable, tangible improvements to the governance of the organization as well as using his diverse network of contacts to bring in new partnerships, sponsors, and members. Louis has also been instrumental in helping to put together numerous industry-leading sessions at FEI Canada events and conferences up and down the country – some of which he personally participated in as a speaker.

 

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BILL ROSS
Business Executive, Vercerta Inc.

Bill Ross is a Business Executive with Vercerta Inc., which provides asset and financial management services to broad industry sectors.  In prior roles, Bill held executive positions with Enbridge Inc, a leading manager of energy infrastructure; W.W. Grainger, a leading provider of maintenance and operation supplies;  and Unilever PLC, a global provider of consumer products.  Bill has extensive experience in leading finance and information technology teams.  Bill is a Chartered Director and currently is Chair of the Board of Financial Executives Canada.