Boundless Leadership: A Breakthrough Program for Women

Executive in Residence

Ingrid Richter is an Executive in Residence at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa and Partner, Threshold Associates.  Her teaching, action research and consulting work has three major areas of focus:  leadership development, facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder change processes and developing change agents so that they can more effectively engage in high impact, complex change.  Her recent client work focuses on leadership and international capacity development supporting sustainability of social innovation initiatives. She has in-depth experience in provincial and federal governments, including as a Senior Fellow at the Canada School of Public Service as well as senior roles in corrections, policing and public safety.  Ingrid was the co-founder of the Canadian Organization Development Institute and designs and delivers leadership programs for the UN Staff College and the UNHCR.  In her spare time she is an active volunteer at Synapcity, (an Ottawa non-profit focused on developing citizen engagement), loves travel, poetry, cooking and learning to play the ukulele.

Facilitator

Jean Ogilvie, an Associate of Telfer Centre for Executive Programs, is the founder of the Aeshna Project, a company that specializes in developing leaders, teams and organizations.  Jean splits her time between one-on-one coaching of leaders and designing and facilitating leadership development programs and initiatives in the public, private and educational sectors. Jean has been involved in highly successful leadership development programs including the UN's Deep Dive Program offered in Italy and Sweden, The Leadership Development Intensive with John Scherer in Europe and Canada and Telfer Executive Programs’ Boundless Leadership: A Breakthrough Program for Women. She has also coached teams at Queen's University’s Smith School of Business for several years. She approaches this work through a focus on developing the intelligences of the whole person - somatic, emotional, cognitive and spiritual. She has most recently focused on developing resilience and agility from the inside out, based on emerging research in neuroscience demonstrating that in leadership, we 'start with ourselves', move to relational health, and then work on our impact in context. Jean is an ICF certified coach of 20 years, with an M.A. in Communications and doctoral studies in Adult Education.

Co-Program Director

Mary has spent more than 35 years in the business of helping individuals and organizations through the change process where the majority of her work has been in the health care and hospital field. She is currently Principal of Align Associates Inc., providing expertise in leadership development & coaching, quality improvement, interpersonal & team effectiveness for physicians, meeting & retreat facilitation and human resources management.

For the last 23 years, Mary has been on faculty with the Canadian Medical Association’s Physician Leadership Institute.  She is currently co-facilitator of Momentum, an annual week-long leadership retreat for Medical Women.  In addition, she has designed and delivered courses on behalf of the Quality Health Network. Mary is a founding member of, and currently serves on, the Steering Committee of the Canadian Physician Coaches Network. 

Mary’s undergraduate degree in is Psychology. She has a Master of Education degree in Adult Education (Human Resources Development) and completed an internship in Organization & Human Resources Development (University Associates in Tucson AZ).  She completed her Coaches Training in 2015 and is certified in Emotional Intelligence (Multi-Health Systems) Crucial Conversations and Crucial Accountability (Vital Smarts).