MSE Annual Environment Public Lecture with our special guest Frances Westley

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Social transformation through social innovation:

How social innovators work to change the system that created the problem in the first place.

Dr. Frances Westley

Thursday, March 31st @ 6:00 pm in New Residence Hall

3625 Avenue du Parc

Montréal, Québec, H2X 3P8

Free Admission.

Dr. Westley is a renowned scholar and consultant in the areas of social innovation, strategies for sustainable development, strategic change, visionary leadership and inter-organizational collaboration.

Before joining the University of Waterloo in 2007 as the JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, Frances Westley held the position of Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies (2005-2007) at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Other positions she has previously held include the James McGill Professor of Strategy at McGill University’s Faculty of Management, director of the McGill-Dupont Initiative on Social Innovation and director of the McGill-McConnell Masters program for National Voluntary Sector leaders – an innovative executive masters customized for the leaders of voluntary organizations across Canada.

Frances Westley serves on numerous advisory boards including Resilience Alliance Board of Science, World Conservation Union-Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, the Stockholm Resilience Center, the SARAS Institute and Evergreen Canada. She is on the editorial board of several journals, including Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and Ecology and Society. She is the recipient of several awards including the Ulysses S. Seal award for innovation in conservation and the Corporate Knights Award.