About the Niagara Institute
Growing Leaders
The Niagara Institute is a private, not-for-profit
foundation established in 1971 to enhance the quality of Canadian leadership-in
business, government and non-governmental organizations. The institute's
programs are highly concentrated, engaging and student-focused-attracting
leaders from across Canada and around the world.
For more than 30 years, we have been developing leaders
throughout Canada and from around the world. We equip leaders with the essential
leadership competencies needed to achieve organizational results. Each year,
thousands of executives from hundreds of organizations turn to Niagara programs
for their leadership development.
More than half of the top 100 companies named by the
Financial Post are Niagara Institute clients; and 20 of the top 25
are our clients.
In 1994, the Institute became part of The Conference
Board of Canada, the country's largest independent, not-for-profit research
institution. The resulting synergy has benefited the Institute, the Board
and their respective clients.
Research undertaken by the Board helps to enrich the
Institute's program offerings. In turn, the ongoing work of the Institute
helps to identify new issues and new opportunities for the Board's applied
research expertise.
It's a powerful partnership, one that's transforming
Canadian leaders and Canadian organizations.
Identifying Issues, Finding Solutions
Effective leaders are people who understand themselves
and their relationships with others. They're people of vision, who can communicate
that vision-within organizations, across cultures and in the public forum.
They're people who have a firm grasp of the issues, who know how to work
toward consensus, find solutions, transform and renew their organizations.
Programs at The Niagara Institute are designed to
help leaders identify, understand and address the issues of our time. Increasingly,
leadership means dealing effectively with diversity. This is particularly
true in Canada where changing demographics and the globalization of Canadian
business are bringing us in touch with people whose backgrounds and cultures
are different from our own.
At The Niagara Institute, you'll learn how to look
at complex issues from many perspectives. You'll learn how to manage diversity
effectively, how to build and lead teams, how to become an agent of change.
The Institute's regularly scheduled public programs
typically involve 15 to 24 participants meeting over a period of two to
five days. While most participants are drawn from management, they represent
a wide range of backgrounds and organizational experience. Feedback, psychometric
instruments, simulations and group work provide a rich learning environment
and the kind of practical knowledge you'll be able to apply to the workplace.
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