Leadership Team

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.

Strategic Initiatives

• Provide champions for all major institutional initiatives.
• Develop, recommend and execute all major institutional strategic initiatives and planning documents including the C​IP, 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.

Budgets

• 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 C​IP priorities.

Policy/Procedure

• Serve as the institutional policy/procedure development/renewal committee.
• Review and recommend new or renewed institutional policies/procedures through institutional stakeholder consultation.

Communication

• Ensure effective cross-departmental communication.
• Facilitate communication of policy initiatives throughout the broader institutional community.
• Communicate departmental issues/impacts to the leadership team.

Delegation of Tasks

• Delegate tasks as required to sub-committees.

Space Management & Utilization

• 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

Other resource personnel will be invited to attend the meeting as required. Member substitution requires consent of the president.

• 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.