McGill Executive Leadership Experience

Anita Nowak

Anita is an empathy expert and certified coach, who helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations create cultures of empathy. She is a multiple TEDx speaker and author of Purposeful Empathy: Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for Personal, Organizational, and Social Change (Broadleaf, 2023).

Anita teaches Leadership, Ethics in Management, and Social Entrepreneurshp & Innovation at McGill, and was named Professor of the Year in 2014 and 2019 by the Management Undergraduate Society and received the David Johnston Faculty and Staff Award in 2021, awarded by the McGill Alumni Association. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (McGill), a Master’s of Media & Communication Studies (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and PhD in Education (McGill).

Roman Galperin

Roman Galperin is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. He studies how signals and perceptions of competence and expertise influence markets for professional services, facilitate knowledge exchange and learning in organizations, and shape the careers of knowledge workers. He earned his Ph.D. in management at MIT Sloan School of Management and previously taught at Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Discovery Award for joint work with the Department of Neuroscience studying efficient expert search in the context of patent examination. Before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Professor Galperin was an NSF-ASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and an Edward J. Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University. Galperin also served as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2013 to 2016.

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.

Estelle Métayer

Estelle Métayer is an expert in competitive and strategic intelligence. Her research focuses on how managers, CEOs, and board members build and improve their strategic planning and/or competitive intelligence function to avoid strategic blind spots. She is a reputed public speaker at international conferences (such as Davos in 2012) and facilitates strategic workshops around the world. She also introduced Competitive Intelligence into the McGill-Rotman School of Business’s certification program for Canadian board directors, and into the new HEC-McGill Executive MBA. Estelle is also a guest lecturer in programs led or co-led by IMD (Lausanne), the IMB (India), INSEAD (France) or MIT (United States).

Mario Bottone

Mario has over 20 years of experience in technology companies. Some of the most notables were Monster.com, Workopolis, 2020 Technologies and Logibec Healthcare. He is currently the CRO of Thinking Capital, a fintech solutions provider targeting SMBs in North America. Mario has held senior executive roles in the areas of operations, marketing, product management and sales on an international level. He has been a CEO-COO, led business units, M&A, managed sell-side processes and organizational design projects. Mario also has extensive board management experience with private equity shareholders. Mario holds an MBA degree from McGill University.