Western University’s Ivey Business School has received a new CA$3.5 million gift that will extend its teaching, research, and outreach on the awareness, assessment, and development of leader character.
In essence, the new funding will benefit the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, a character-based leadership development program launched in 2010.
Key Takeaways:
- Through new funding, Western University will expand its teaching, research, and outreach on the formation of leader character.
- The funding will benefit the character-based leadership development program launched at Western.
- The institute’s mission is to investigate the role of character in leadership and how it develops.
Part of the funding will be used to establish the Ihnatowycz Family Foundation Chair in Leadership, which will be jointly appointed with Western Engineering to bring the programming to engineering students.
During the 2008 financial crisis, Ihnatowycz saw leadership flaws and decided to build the leadership institute at Ivey.
The institute’s goal is to look at the role of a character in leadership, as well as how it is developed.
Western University has become a global leader in research, teaching, and outreach on leader character as a result of its long-standing collaboration with Ivey, which includes a total expenditure of more than CA$7 million in leadership programs.
The funding has allowed the institution to contribute more to Ivey’s student curriculum and to reach out to those in the public, commercial, and non-profit sectors.
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