Explore Your Personal Values and Goals
Learning how to lead oneself is crucial in knowing how to lead others. This workshop focuses on discovering your intrinsic goals and motivations, to better understand how to apply these in real-world decision-making and leadership scenarios.
Fall 2023
Empowering Women in Engineering
It is important for women to be in leadership positions, but there are many barriers that exist which prevent them from doing so. Eliminating these barriers is the ultimate solution, but to do so women must be able to recognize these barriers and understand how to avoid and overcome them. This workshop outlines some of these barriers, and goes through strategies for dealing with them.
Fall 2023
Developing Cultural Intelligence
Engineering is a very diverse, multidisciplinary field. As an engineer, and as a leader, this means interacting with many different types of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Through the use of some more objective frameworks and understanding how cultures may influence anyone, one can learn how to better lead others.
Fall 2023
AI Ethics
[Collaboration with the University of Calgary]
With AI becoming and increasingly hot topic, this workshop aims at providing a bit of background information regarding the development of AI in the framework of Engineering Leadership. This discussion also involves the ethical implications and potential societal impacts of AI going forward.
Winter 2024
Change Management
Change is inevitable as time goes on. Though change can not be stopped, different strategies can be employed to better manage change through frameworks like the Bridge’s Transition Model. Models such as these help with identifying, managing, and directing change.
Winter 2024
Sharing Together: Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Discover the meaning behind sharing circles and explore Indigenous Ways of Knowing and IEDI. Sharing Circles are a great way to facilitate open communication, and have many applications in the world of Engineering Leadership. Learn how to utilize them yourself in this workshop all about Sharing Together.
Winter 2024
GEL Conclusion Workshop
Celebrate and reflect on your leadership journey during the GEL Program! In this final closing workshop, we will celebrate achieving our GEL certificate. Students will get to reflect with each other and facilitators on memorable moments and topics throughout the GEL program, and connect with the GEL team on future opportunities! Food and refreshments will be provided for one final hurrah in the 2023-24 GEL Program!
Winter 2024