Shaping the Future Through Character-Based Leadership

Carol Stephenson

Carol Stephenson is a corporate director. From 2003 to 2013, she was the Dean of the Ivey Business School at Western University. She was President and CEO of Lucent Technologies Canada from July 1999 to February 2003. Prior to that, she held a number of executive positions with Bell Canada and BCE Media, and from 1995 to 1998, she was CEO of Stentor Resource Centre Inc.
 
Ms. Stephenson is a Director of General Motors Company, Maple Leaf Foods Inc. and Mattamy Asset Management. Ms. Stephenson is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and has completed the Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California, and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. In 2000, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering from Ryerson Polytechnic University and in 2016, an honorary doctorate from Western University. She has also received several industry awards, including induction into Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame and induction into the London and District Business Hall of Fame.
In 2009, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Mac Van Wielingen

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Mac Van Wielingen is an investment management executive, corporate director, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder and Chairman of Viewpoint Group, a private group of companies, which includes Viewpoint Foundation and Viewpoint Investment Partners (VIP), an investment management company offering a foundational, global investment alternative for high net-worth families and institutional investors. He is a Founder, Director (1989 - 2018), and Partner (Present) of ARC Financial Corp., the largest private equity investment management company in Canada focused on the energy sector; and a founder and former Chair (1996-2016) of ARC Resources Ltd., a leading Canadian oil and gas producer.
 
Van Wielingen joined the inaugural Board of Directors of Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) in 2007 and served as Chair from 2014-2017. He serves on the board of directors of the Institute of Corporate Directors (2018-present) and is a member of the Chart the Future Committee sponsored by the ICD and TMX Group.
 
Van Wielingen is a founding partner of the Creative Destructive Lab - Rockies (CDL-R). and Co-Founder and former Chair (2012-2020) for the External Advisory Group of the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership (CCAL) at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. He is Co-Founder, vice chair, and director (2019-2021) and now Chair (2022) of the Business Council of Alberta (BCA), created for the purpose of “making life better” for Albertans and all Canadians. In 2019, he served on the advisory committee that created the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC), and most recently, Mac was appointed to the Premier’s Economic Recovery Council in Alberta.

Steve Virgin

Steve Virgin joined the Canada Revenue Agency in July 2018 as the Director for Character Leadership. He is also the Director of the Centre for Agile Learning in the CRA. He is a former senior naval officer in the Canadian Armed Forces and he joined the Public Service in 2015. During his military career, he was fortunate to have a variety of leadership experiences including submarine captain, frigate command, and a variety of strategic leadership appointments in National Headquarters in plans, policy and strategic resource management. His final appointment in the Forces was as the Deputy Commander of Canada’s Special Forces Command. As an Executive employee in the Department of Defence, he was the Director of Business Management and Director of Analytics for the Defence CIO.
 
Mr. Virgin holds a Bachelor of Military Arts and Science from the Royal Military College of Canada. He is a graduate of the Canadian Forces Command College and a fellow of the National Defence University of the PLA Beijing, and he recently completed a Certificate in Regulatory Leadership at the University of Ottawa. Mr. Virgin is a volunteer citizenship presiding official with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada where he very much enjoys the opportunity to welcome new Canadians. He was invested into the Order of Military Merit in 2015 and he was awarded two meritorious service medals during his career.

Gerard Seijts

Gerard Seijts is a professor of organizational behavior at the Ivey Business School at Western University in London, Ontario. Gerard holds the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Chair in Leadership and is the Executive Director of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership. Faculty affiliated with the Institute expose students in degree and executive education programs to research on leader character to enhance their effectiveness as leaders, and communicate the results of activities in research and student programming with leaders in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors through various outreach initiatives.

Scott Spindler