Leadership Team
Leadership Team
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The leadership team is the senior decision making body for Lakeland College. It includes the :
- president
- vice presidents
- chief financial officer
- deans
- directors
- managers
The Leadership Team is the senior decision making body for Lakeland College. The leadership committee
is:
- responsible for advancing the Comprehensive Institutional Plan (CIP) to support achieving Lakeland College's vision and strategic goals.
- responsible for setting and approving operational policy.
- ensures effective communication within all levels of the college and across divisional areas through the effective exchange of information.
- performs the role of annual college budget committee.
Planning
- Prepare the annual Lakeland College Comprehensive Institutional Plan (CIP) for approval by the Board of Governors.
- Monitor fulfillment of CIP outcomes.
- Provide champions for all major institutional initiatives.
- Develop, recommend and execute all major institutional strategic initiatives and planning documents including the CIP, strategic plan, operating and capital budgets, collective agreements and major academic research or administrative initiatives.
- Respond to any matters as delegated by the president and CEO of Lakeland College.
- Monitor outcomes.
- Meet annually to review all Corporate Initiatives (CI) , providing input to the Senior Leadership Team for decision making on CI requests.
- Provide input to the annual budget process prior to the annual budget being submitted to the Board of Governors. Ensure annual budget allocations align with CIP priorities.
- Serve as the institutional policy/procedure development/renewal committee.
- Review and recommend new or renewed institutional policies/procedures through institutional stakeholder consultation.
- Ensure effective cross-departmental communication.
- Facilitate communication of policy initiatives throughout the broader institutional community.
- Communicate departmental issues/impacts to the leadership team.
- Delegate tasks as required to sub-committees.
- Coordinate the allocation of all College space (internal and external) to ensure institutional priorities are met.
- As required, the leadership team is to do due-diligence and communicate the impacts of the space change prior to submission.
The leadership team consists of the following members:
- President and CEO
- Vice President, Academic and Research
- Vice President, People and Cultural Services
- Chief Financial Officer
- Dean, Agricultural Sciences
- Dean, Applied Research
- Dean, Business and Energy
- Dean, Emergency Training Centre
- Dean, Environmental Sciences
- Dean, Health, Wellness and Human Services
- Dean, Student and Academic Services
- Dean, Trades & Technology
- Dean, University Transfer and Foundational Learning
- Director, Athletics
- Director, External Relations
- Director, Facilities and Infrastructure
- Director, Information Technology
- Manager, Donor Relations
- The Leadership Team meets monthly on a Thursday from 9:30 to 11:30 am or at the call of the president.
- The president or the president's designate shall chair the meetings.
- Quorum shall be set as nine or more committee members.
- A majority vote shall be two thirds majority, unless the President overrules.
- Committee members shall bring a department perspective but make decisions for Lakeland College as a whole.
- Committee members shall debate topics inside the room; support the decision outside the room; present a unified front.
- Conflict is expected and beneficial but committee members shall respect other opinions and be considerate in your comments.
- Confidentiality is essential. The timing and method of communication shall be determined at the table. All discussion is confidential. Decisions will be made public.
- Committee members shall suggest a solution for any problem brought forward.
- Any conflict of interest shall be declared to the chair making the committee member ineligible to vote on the subject.
- Agendas shall be managed by the president's executive assistant or designate; normally materials shall be circulated in advance to all members.
- Agenda items must be submitted to the president's executive assistant no later than noon Monday or by noon Friday before a long weekend.
- The president may determine additions to the agenda for urgent and important items that have not been placed in advance on the agenda.