Successful College Presidents

The education provided by Canada s colleges and §technical institutions contributes to the country s §well-being in ways that benefit individuals and §through them, society. The people who have been §given the responsibility of leading these §organizations through periods of economic, §political and social change are the presidents and §CEOs. The topic of strategic and innovative §leadership has been studied extensively from the §perspective of business and industry however there §are few studies conducted on leadership in public §colleges and technical institutes in Canada. As a §result, the leadership strategies which presidents §use to enable their organizations to adjust to the §current conditions are not well known. This book §presents the results of a qualitative study that §examined four presidents of Canadian colleges and §technical institutes, who (through peer selection) §were identified as being effective leaders. The §focus was, first, to gain a deeper understanding of §the contemporary issues facing presidents and their §organizations and second, to discover which §strategies they are implementing to ensure their §organizations adapt.