Executive Course

This course addresses current concepts of sustainable finance and their application. Sustainable finance is generally defined in a broader context of sustainability that integrates environmental as well as social and economic issues into financial decision making and includes climate finance, socially responsible investing, impact investing, and green bonds. Sustainable finance is split into two main […]

Gender shapes and impacts the experiences of all individuals throughout all stages of societal development. It is only through gender-responsive approaches to governance, guided by a rights-based perspective, that policies and practices can recognize and address the specific needs, challenges and vulnerabilities of all individuals, particularly those of women, girls and LGBTQI+ groups. One of

Most strategic plans include a commitment to ‘innovation’. However, few organizations are often prepared to actually ‘do’ innovation and a preference for the status quo can be difficult to overcome. This course presents key theories and concepts alongside real-world examples to demonstrate various approaches to innovation in the public sector to address complex problems. It

In today’s innovation economy, most corporate value is in the form of intangible assets, particularly intellectual property (IP) and data assets. The IP rules that shape freedom to operate are created and dynamically modified by policy makers, domestically and globally. While US, Chinese, and European policy makers are actively using IP rules to increase the

During a time when national governments, international organisations and planners worldwide are faced with managing large-scale institutional transformation required to remain relevant during these evolving global times, effective and visionary policy leadership is critical. This course addresses all critical aspects of a resilient organization from problem solving, strategic planning, policy analysis, decision-making, direction setting, and

This short course focuses on financial reporting and the valuation of assets in an intangibles world, where intangibles comprise over 90% of the value of the S&P 500 Index. In this data-driven and digitalized era, the development of knowledge and skillsets to support intangible valuation and reporting has become a critical development area for organizational

This professional course will examine key aspects of the modern practice of intelligence and security. The course instructor explores both a Canadian and an international perspective, drawing on historical examples and contemporary issues. The core objective of the course is to deepen participants’ strategic understanding of the fast-changing nature of intelligence, its challenges, uses, and

This course will help participants learn how to better make use of evidence and data to make strong and supported policy recommendations. Building the data analysis series, this course will introduce a data analytics methodology using specific examples, then follow-up with a practical component including group work designed to solve a real-life problem that the

This online course will offer an intensive survey of the origins and history of national security and intelligence review in Canada, the current state of review practice, and the challenges ahead. Course participants will be made familiar with the legislative basis for the new review system created since 2017, the policy and political contexts of