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Françoise Morissette, M.Ed., P.C.C.
Author of “Made in Canada Leadership”
Faculty and Fellow
Industrial Relations Centre
Queen's University |
Françoise has been a Faculty Member at Queen’s University’s prestigious Industrial Relations Centre since 1994, and was made a Fellow in 2006. She has played a key role in developing and implementing a new OD curriculum intended for practitioners. She is the Chair for the Leadership Capacity Program and a Coach for the students completing the Consulting Skills Practicum.
In 2009, she became an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Alberta. She is a much in demand Guest Faculty.
In the last two years, she has presented at the Universities of British Columbia, Toronto and Dalhousie, to name a few.
As a consultant, Françoise is a major contributor to the field of Organizational Development. Her practice takes her within Canada and internationally. Her main area of expertise is Leadership Development. Through a variety of interventions, she helps leaders, organizations and communities enhance their leadership capacity. She is a much in demand speaker in both official languages and regularly presents at major conferences across the country and abroad.
With HR expert Amal Henein, CHRP, she wrote Made in Canada Leadership, published by Wiley Canada in May 2007. The book is the product of a large research on best practices on leadership excellence and development. It has become a Canadian top ten bestseller and received many accolades. The authors are in the process of implementing one the book’s recommendations: a National Leadership Institute. www.leadership-canada.com
In 2008, Françoise was made a Fellow of the prestigious Wallace McCain Institute at UNB for business leadership, whose mission is to expand the leadership capacity of New Brunswick most promising entrepreneurs. This initiative constitutes a cornerstone of the province’s vision and strategic plan for an autonomous, sustainable and prosperous future, and a blueprint for the rest of Canada. www.wallacemccaininstitute.com
Current Involvement
Françoise sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for HR Professional, the bi-monthly publication of HRPA
She is a judge for the 2009 edition of the prestigious Excalibur Tournament which pits Canadian university student teams in a case solving competition. www.orhri.org/excalibur/en
Recently, she formed a Leadership Engineering Roundtable to increase leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation capacity in the engineering community. McMaster, Waterloo, Queen’s and Toronto Universities are involved, as well as Shad Valley, Engineers without Borders, and thought leaders in the field.
She and her Queens’ colleague, Brenda Barker, are pioneering leadership and team skills development in the Shad Valley Program
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