Global Leadership Congratulates Graduates and Eve's Global Leadership Award Winners

Congratulations!!

Twice a year, the Global Leadership program, in the School of Leadership, celebrates graduates at Royal Roads University with our wider community – Convocation was that opportunity on June 14, 2024. We shared in joy, tears, and celebration with our graduates after what is often a challenging and life-changing journey. Our graduates were acknowledged as graduates in Global Leadership. They celebrated their journey as we also are looking to their further work direly needed in an increasingly polarized world. 

2024 Global Leadership graduates already know of the many wicked issues challenging the planet and people. Each MA  student graduating this year had worked on capstone projects or internship projects that not only prepared them for what might be ahead but gave them the real opportunity to address some key issues facing the health of the world and people. Each student works on an issue in context to support and enhance global leadership by connecting to groups or networks, organizations, or communities. In this, they navigated local to global systems to produce ripple effects and systems changes through practicing working with systems thinking and approaches. 

Each graduate will be able to share times of overwhelm in navigating parts of global crises, and how they yet persevered through resilience, adaptability, wisdom, inquiry, innovation, and trust.  Each graduate navigated through unexpected curve balls, finding emergent opportunities to innovate. In all examples, they share too how critical their success was due to co-learning and co-leading. 

The university presents Eve's Global Leadership Learner Award that has been established to recognize a Master of Arts in Global Leadership student who is nominated by fellow students for making outstanding contributions to the learning journey of fellow classmates during their time at Royal Roads University. For 2024 we are honoured to share the student who was nominated and won is Luis Gutierrez Aguirre.  

These graduates also nominated our second Eve’s Leadership Teaching Award to MAGL faculty Jason Steeves and Haval Ahmad.  This award celebrates a student nominated faculty who has made significant contributions to the learning experiences of Global Leadership students, deepening the learning of global leadership competencies. Both faculty were nominated and won. Eve was a student in the first cohort of the Master of Arts in Leadership and Training program, established at Royal Roads in 1996. This program, and the people involved in all aspects of it, informed and inspired the trajectory of her life. May it do so for others.

We see our graduates’ collective journeys and real-world impacts during critical and unprecedented times as inspiration for all. The world needs these beautiful beacons whenever they join together and wherever they are on their journey. We look forward to holding our hands up high for our graduates’ hard work, courage, example, trust, and positivity yet acutely aware of the leadership needed to address the wicked issues continuing to manifest for no shortage of global leadership.