by Donna Kennedy-Glans As executive director of a Canadian-based volunteer organization and registered charity (Bridges Social Development), I’ve been inundated with surveys from pollsters seeking to quantify the impacts of the recession on Canadian charities. What these surveys tell us will surprise no one: corporate and government funding for charities is down, needs in communities [...]
Lifting the secular veil
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008by Donna Kennedy-Glans “How do you conduct business in the Muslim world after Sept. 11?” I am encouraged by this question posed to me recently by an intrepid class of university commerce students. They didn’t ask “if” you could do business in the Muslim world-they had not, like some, fallen headlong into the wide chasm [...]
Beyond Polarity
Monday, October 1st, 2007by Donna Kennedy-Glans I worked for decades as a lawyer and then corporate executive in the international extractive sector. In this role, integrity dilemmas were plentiful. When a North American company invests in an oil, gas, gold or diamond project in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East or frontiers in the west, the “right” [...]
VIP FORUM: Tools for making your corporate contribution count
Thursday, February 1st, 2007by Donna Kennedy-Glans As a management sherpa, and more recently as executive director of a humanitarian organization, I’ve been invited to hundreds of community investment and philanthropic initiatives championed by Canadian oil and gas companies. Whatever the location of the community investment project—Canada, the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America—every responsible corporate manager [...]
Help Wanted: HR Sherpas to Navigate Integrity Dilemmas during Economic Boom
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006by Donna Kennedy-Glans Alberta’s economic players are proving themselves worthy in a globalizing world. We are seen by others as a big, strong warrior decked out in armour, capable, aggressive and hungry for our piece of the worldwide economic pie. Alberta has the financial and natural resources and the infrastructure potential to suppoer exponential economic [...]
New book outlines steps to business integrity
Friday, August 26th, 2005by Wes Lafortune Is your company on the third rung of the corporate integrity ladder? That’s where Bob Schulz, a business professor at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, thinks most corporations rank. The integrity ladder and a “toolbox” full of other instruments designed to promote ethical behaviour in business are [...]