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McGill Executive Leadership Experience

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. - Henry Mintzberg

A truly unique, world-class program

In today’s workforce, all eyes are on the leader to showcase stability when faced with uncertainty, strength at the sign of a challenge, and innovation when the path to growth is unclear.

The McGill Executive Leadership Experience (MELE) is a program that heightens the competitiveness of seasoned managers and executives. You will be exposed to new insights, high-energy learning exercises, best practices, practical tools, and coaching techniques.

Following Henry Mintzberg's 5 Managerial Mindsets, the McGill Executive Leadership Experience invites you to embrace new perspectives and apply them to a leadership challenge. Select a real-world strategic issue affecting your organization and tackle it with personalized coaching and input from top caliber participants and faculty.

Participants will learn about diverse structures and tools to apply at work, as well as benefit from time and space to reflect – both on their journey as leaders today and what their future in leadership holds.

Through a unique blend of learning and coaching, the McGill Executive Leadership Experience allows participants to hone their senior-level leadership skills in areas like strategy, change management, and innovation.

This program is designed for professionals with 5 to 10 years of progressive leadership experience. This includes participants from the public sector as well as for-profit changemakers leading growth in their organizations. It is a fantastic opportunity for those nominated for advancement to senior leadership roles to hone their skills and tackle problems they face in their day-to-day role with the counsel of expert professionals and peers.

The registration fee includes facilitation by our highly rated faculty members, course materials, results-oriented exercises, meal service (continental breakfast, lunch, and breaks) *, and a certificate of completion from the McGill Executive Institute. To successfully complete the course and receive your certificate of completion, you will need to attend all sessions and complete the pre-work for each session.

*Meal service is included for in-person programs only.

Key Takeaways

  • The reflective mindset
  • Explore your personal leadership attributes
  • System leadership in your organization 
  • The collaborative mindset
  • Organizational and self empathy
  • Align purpose and mission with company culture
  • The analytic mindset
  • Identification and execution of a growth strategy
  • Aligning goal, scope, and competitive advantage together
  • The worldly mindset
  • Tackling obstacles to innovation
  • Innovation through technology and creativity
  • Master the principles of design thinking 
  • The action mindset
  • Align change management strategy to organizational strategy and readiness
  • Identify a vision for change
  • Assess and address resistance 
  • The leadership challenge
  • Sustain long-term impact through follow-up mechanisms to track learning application and actions

Course Leaders

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Jane Reichman Van Toch

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Jane Reichman Van Toch

Jane Reichman Van Toch is a specialist in strengthening individual, team and organizational performance. She began her career as a practicing lawyer in the private sector, later transitioning to the role of educator/consultant in the areas of organizational effectiveness, leadership and emotional intelligence. She came to McGill University in 2010 as Senior Advisor - Organizational Development and Talent Management, later joining the McGill Executive Institute faculty. Jane holds two Bachelor of Law degrees from McGill and a Masters in Human Systems Intervention (Organizational Development) from Concordia.

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Donald Melville

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Donald Melville

Don Melville is an expert in strategy and competitive advantage. In his prior roles as Director at Secor and Senior Consultant at CapGemini, he led a number of activities aimed at achieving strategic excellence for multinational corporations. He is currently a faculty member in the areas of finance, strategy and organization at McGill’s Faculty of Management and teaches on a variety of senior executive education programs. He also holds an MBA degree from McGill University.

 

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Jared Lee

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Jared Lee

Jared Lee is a senior consultant who provides training to executives of various organizations as well as professional and graduate students. He has led workshops, seminars, and guest lectures at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management, Max Bell School of Public Policy, Queen's University's Smith School of Business, and Concordia University's John Molson Executive Centre. Topics have included strategic thinking, problem-solving, design thinking, innovation, structured communication, business presentations, data analysis, data visualization, and change leadership.

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Claudie Vigneault

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Claudie Vigneault

Claudie Vigneault has over 15 years' experience as a strategic consultant in organisational transformation, working with a number of large-scale clients in Quebec. Co-founder of Levio Montréal, Ms Vigneault is also executive manager of the Agility & Organisational Change business line, which is made up of operational, tactical and strategic consultants.

 

Online Information Sessions: Leadership Portfolio

 December 10, 2025 ⁠–⁠ 12:00 pm ET

Learn about our immersive programs designed to help you enact leadership change with confidence at every level of the organization. Join our learned advisors as they explore our Leadership portfolio of courses including "McGill Executive Leadership Experience".

 

Applications

The McGill Executive Institute seeks to build strong positive-learning environments within which participants can flourish. Eligibility for acceptance into the program requires the following qualifications:

  1. Participants have upper- to senior-level management responsibilities;
  2. Show high interest in engaging positively with peers in a unique executive learning environment.

Candidates are encouraged to register online and supply a current resume that shows both your academic and professional experience. Email to:

executive.outreach@mcgill.ca