Sentences with phrase «important leadership changes»

MaRS Discovery District is pleased to announce two important leadership changes, placing key staff members in strategic, new roles that align with the organization's growth strategy: Salim Teja takes on the role of EVP Ventures and Tim Jackson becomes the EVP, Corporate & Community Development.

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Lagarde emphasizes the importance of leadership: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's self - identification as a feminist is important because it will change perceptions.

That was well over two months ago, and while Uber's excellent executive leadership team is making commendable progress on these changes, many of the most important issues agreed to by the board remain unaddressed.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

Savills Studley's chief economist, Heidi Learner, said the leadership change «could have been important if [the new Fed chair] had been someone else.»

A change in its leadership could spark an important turning point for the embattled maker of the...

He added, «With so much change on the horizon, our leadership felt it was important that NABI members see and experience Cuba as soon as possible.

Highly developed relationship management and leadership abilities, sound negotiation skills, commercial acumen, a focus on system and process improvement, a strong customer service orientation and the ability to operate successfully in a fast paced production environment with changing priorities will also be important.

They include issues about the importance of breastfeeding and about women in the workplace; issues, which we had all hoped would become legacy issues, about prejudice and discrimination; and important issues about geographic variation and inequality, including the importance of cultural leadership in changing attitudes.

There's certainly much more to be said about the economic repercussions of the Leave vote, which, alongside changes in party leadership is a genuine «leap in the dark,» but it is important to address directly and forcefully the question of popular anger that led to the success of Leave.

Last night, Gianaris specifically called out two senators — Jim Alesi and Joe Robach — for supporting the change that would strip LG Bob Duffy of his ability to cast a tie - breaking vote on procedural matters, which includes the all - important leadership question.

I think there's a lot the states can do — and I applaud state leadership and private sector leadership on this — but the reality is, not only do we have the Trump administration rolling back important climate change reduction rules, but they're proactively promoting fossil fuel development.

«There is no reason why these two bills critically important to the lives of LGBT New Yorkers did not pass in the Senate this session,» Schaefer said after it concluded, adding, «There certainly is cause to see a need for a change in the composition of the leadership.

It is important for you to know that here in Albany, since that coup, everything has changed — the changing of the guard and new leadership comes into power — but the double standard of how people treat each other and deal with each other remains in place.

In examining Progress funding, it is important also to link it to Movement for Change, the «community organising» outfit created under the auspices of David Miliband's leadership campaign.

While being an innovative leader in the industry remains the major driving characteristic of top employers, respondents nominated having top leadership that successfully makes changes needed to keep the organization moving in the right direction as one of the half - dozen most important drivers; that driver did not make last year's top six.

«Due to the current void in national leadership on the issue of climate change, efforts at the state and local level are more important than ever,» Saikawa says.

«This is important, as it shows that Mexico is serious about addressing climate change even if there is a change in leadership,» agreed Jake Schmidt, international climate change policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Saren is the vibrant creator of The Glow Effect (TGE), a personal and sustainable development movement that believes women's leadership is the most important tool for social change, and...

As schools face continual change, greater scrutiny and restrictions on resources, it's more important than ever for school senior leadership teams (SLTs) and governors to engage effectively with parents and other stakeholders.

One of the most important considerations for the authorities and senior leadership team throughout the various mergers was maintaining effective quality assurance — indeed, it's one of the biggest issues colleges are having to deal with as the FE landscape undergoes a radical shift in the face of the area reviews and other institutional changes.

Focus on explaining who Guru Nanak and why he is important to religious believers, explaining the key features of the life of Guru Nanak, and considers how Guru Nanak's leadership encouraged people to change.

In other words, as external pressures on the teacher increase, due to changes in government policy such as testing and changes in curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.»

One important goal included building leadership by identifying roles and styles required to improve the «instructional core»; considering beliefs, cultural changes, and education strategies to promote high student achievement; reflecting on the effects of race, class, and culture within the district.

Its important for community leaders to see how the leadership role of the principal has changed [since they were in school] and how instructional delivery has changed to meet the needs of all students.»

It's not just about learning the facts either, it's important to build the link between what is taught in the classroom to actual carbon reduction activities taking place either in the wider school environment or in pupils» homes; building momentum for change through pupil leadership and involvement, influencing others to do their bit to become more sustainable.

The indeterminate nature of leadership in the course of policy making, and the slippage that occurs as policy refinements accrue during implementation, help to explain how policies succeed or fail.243 Particular instruments used to reformulate policy are less important, according to this perspective, than understanding how a particular policy issue got the governor «s or the legislative committee «s attention in the first place.244 A third image, the practitioner perspective, emerges from studies of publicsector administrators; it examines the tendency of administrators to seek flexibility and autonomy in interpreting policies, and ways in which this tendency affects the broader process of change.

Thoughtful critique of teaching and learning may provoke important changes in teaching and leadership, but it is difficult to ask hard questions, open classrooms to scrutiny, and examine, with colleagues, the nuances of one's own practice.

Nevertheless, policy leaders should recognize that there are important elements to consider when starting new schools or changing school structures, which include a design and implementation plan; community involvement and support; a capable, supported school leader; and district leadership and help targeted at meeting each school's individual needs.

Speaking from long experience with using data to enact meaningful change, any successful effort of this type hinges on two important words: evidence and leadership.

Just as important, grassroots change requires strong leadership on the ground.

«I knew one of the important things in leadership is to institutionalize the changes you're making,» Paula said.

One of the most important considerations I have found, in an exercise such as this, is the leadership of change to alter people's behaviours in a way that is positive to both the review itself and their daily working lives.

«States and the federal government have a role in changing the way districts support effective leadership in every school;» said Jean Desravines, CEO of New Leaders, Inc. «To scale and sustain school improvement, state and federal leaders must recognize the important role that districts play and promote and model large shifts in organizational culture and operations.»

In addition, studies of school leadership are replete with other adjectives purporting to capture something uniquely important about the object of inquiry — for example, learning leadership, 19 constructivist leadership, 20 and change leadership.21 Few of these efforts, however, have been products of a sustained line of inquiry yielding the sort of evidence needed to justify their claims.

School commissioners are surprisingly important: they oversee the quality of academies, close schools, change school intakes, change school leadership.

There are four important dimensions to leadership in a service environment such as a pet store: creating a shared vision, developing teamwork, leveraging change and encouraging personal authority.

With the announcement that Nintendo will start making real mobile games, not just Pokémon spin - offs and weird experiments, and with this announcement of Nintendo's leadership changes, we might have lost the single most important, most daring, most peculiar voice in gaming.

With the announcement that Nintendo will start making real mobile games, not just Pokà © mon spin - offs and weird experiments, and with this announcement of Nintendo's leadership changes, we might have lost the single most important, most daring, most peculiar voice in gaming.

The wedge / identity politics success is probably largely to blame for the inability of the US to move forward consistently (or at all) on important public policy — global leadership on climate change or national gun control policy come to mind, right off the top.

As stated during the October 11 edition of 60 Minutes, he sees his role in Paris as more important than fighting ISIS: «My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an international accord that potentially we'll get in Paris.»

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

The state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) legislation is an important part of this leadership in combatting climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) might have played this important role, but its leadership was quickly captured by political operatives, determined to support climate alarmism, even when this was at odds with the findings of honest scientists who wrote technical parts of IPCC reports.

It is critically important not to overstate climate change's involvement in contemporary population movements, lest we absolve poor leadership and decision - making.

«Under Governor Cuomo's leadership, New York State is taking some of the most aggressive actions in the nation to combat climate change, and NYSERDA's work is critically important in supporting the state's efforts to protect the environment for generations to come.»

The Senate climate change committee's leadership on climate and energy issues has been critical for Massachusetts's progress, and this bill is an important next step.

The US, as one of the most important players in taking a lead on climate change issues, may, as a result, already be flunking the test of taking up global leadership on this most critical of issues.

Of these six criteria, the most important are the socialist path and the leadership of the Party [better change this to Consensus too, don't want to be too obvious].»

Under her leadership, the EPA has taken sensible and important steps to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollution.