Our Services
Governance
At the heart of our vision for corporate governance is the belief that good governance requires an enterprise-wide view of risk management. The knowledge and abilities required to manage risk must begin at the highest levels of corporate governance with the boards of directors who provide external governance for the firm and move down to senior managers who formulate and execute the board-approved strategic directions for the firm.
There continues to be an expansion of the types of issues that boards are expected to explore in order to fulfill both their legal duties as well as the expectations of shareholders. The list of issues for board consideration is becoming even more complex and fluid: risk oversight, regulatory compliance, requirements for transparency and disclosure, environmental policy, social and human rights, and the democratization of the boardroom and corporate decision-making.
The Learning Strategies Group and SFU Business have demonstrated experience in designing and delivering customized programs and learning support in a number of areas relevant for Boards of Directors providing external governance to both public and private organizations.
Each year brings new changes and surprises. Businesses and their boards must now manage a very difficult balancing act between responding to the regulatory and shareholder requirements against the importance of protecting a company’s competitive position and information.
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Health Care
The Learning Strategies Group has a long history of designing and delivering management and leadership learning opportunities for the health sector. In over a decade of designing and delivering health programming we understand that process is very important.
To foster the development of insights into the complexity and breadth of challenges facing different specialties and systems of care in the health sector, our programs are designed to build organizational relationship and promote self and professional awareness; encourage participant interaction within an inter-professional cohort; enable health professionals to understand their role as leaders; and to encourage them to adopt a systems view and approach to solving complex health delivery challenges.Our healthcare leadership programs have attracted emerging and established healthcare leaders, from the Manager, Director, VP and Board Director levels, designed for a wide range of clients including major University Teaching Hospitals, Regional Health Authorities and Departments of the Faculty of Medicine in Canadian Universities: the Health Management Program (HMP), the Health Management and Leadership Intensive (HMLI) and Children’s and Women’s Health Centre and Faculty of Medicine Leadership Program.
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Justice & Policing Leadership
Simon Fraser University's (SFU) School of Criminology is one of the largest in the world. It was established in 1975 and from the outset has focused on providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to justice and policing through the provision of courses in theoretical and practical aspects of the criminal justice system. The School of Criminology has both a strong national and international focus. At the international level, participants enrolled in MA and PhD programs come from China, Australia, Japan, Belgium, Denmark, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Nigeria, Norway, United Kingdom, South Africa, and the United States, as well as Canada.
The Learning Strategies Group (LSG) has a long history of interdisciplinary collaboration with other faculties in Simon Fraser University through which it has developed a number of highly customized programs for governments, corporations and associations. LSG is guided by its Integrated Learning Methodology (ILM), which draws on deep industryexperience, faculty research and demonstrated best practice to ensure any justice and policing leadership.
LSG draws on the expertise of the School of Criminology to build customized professional training, executive and leadership development and continuing education programs in justice and policing leadership. Program participants are provided with an interdisciplinary understanding of the complexities of managing and leading teams and organizations across local, national and international boundaries concerned with justice and policing. At the core of our programs is a faculty composed of scholars and practitioners committed to providing a comprehensive understanding of complex range of strategic issues surrounding justice and policing such as public safety, human rights, media relations and public policy.
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Resource & Environment Management
Central to resource and environment management studies is the recognition that natural resources are intricately linked with the everyday life of households in developing countries. Thus, the issues and concerns are different from those of natural resources and environmental management in developed countries. In an economic sense, this is reflected in a greater emphasis on the non-market values related to agricultural, forest and fisheries production and less on such topics as recreational values. Sustainability is a much more immediate concept and faces pressing obstacles in the form of day-to-day sustenance and even survival. Conventional approaches to economics have often ignored the link between economic development and preservation of environmental health.
The School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM) at Simon Fraser University was one of the first multidisciplinary programs in resource management to have been developed in Canada that is distinguished from other programs by having internationally recognized research teams in both the social sciences and the natural sciences focused on:
- valuation of ecological resources - fisheries, soil and forest products;
- natural resource management in developing countries - conservation incentives, land husbandry, protected areas and community‐based management of biodiversity; and
- bioeconomic modeling with environmental influences - economic models of fisheries and ecosystem complexity, bioinvasions or eutrophication.
The Learning Strategies Group (LSG) has a long history of interdisciplinary collaboration with other faculties in Simon Fraser University through which it has developed a number of highly customized programs for governments, corporations and associations. LSG is guided by its Integrated Learning Methodology (ILM), which draws on deep industry experience, faculty research and demonstrated best practice to ensure any resource and environmental management programs will provide participants with:
- increased understanding of the dynamics of natural resources;
- the strategies and techniques of natural resource and environmental planning, decision making and management; and
- the biological, physical, social, economic, and institutional implications of resource and environmental management decisions.