Learn to Lead - The Podcast

In our season finale, we will be interviewing Helen, the Learn to Lead Student Coordinator. Helen is an undergraduate student finishing her final year at Western. She'll share her perspectives and reflections from a season of conversations. 

This week, Helen sat down with Ladan Mowlid, who works with as the Equity, Diversity and Education Coordinator at Western. You’ll hear about Ladan’s focus on EDI and why education is so important. She “leads by behind” and empowers others to step into their own leadership.

This week, Helen sat down with Meg U’Ren, who works with the Transition, Leadership and Enrichment team at Western. Learn about her career journey which included a major shift in the earlier part of her career. In this conversation, we talk about how good leaders “take bits and pieces and apply it to their own leadership style.”

This week, Helen sat down with David Feeney, who works with the Career Education team at Western. Learn about how experience working in not-for-profit and career education have provided him with transferable skills. David speaks at length about the various career paths and why “the idea that you need to find your passion is a misnomer”.

In this week’s episode, Helen sat down with Heather Wakely. Heather, an English major, infuses her love of language into her current career. Learn about her 16-year history at Western University. Currently, she is the Team Lead for the Experiential Learning. Heather will speak about informal leadership and why your behaviours and actions strongly influence your personal style.

In this week’s episode, Helen sat down with Alex Elias. Learn about his work and life experience as a Strengths Program Coordinator for Student Experience. Alex helps “students discover their strengths and their natural talent and help them apply it a little more often to be a little more awesome”. Learn about his transition from an undergrad student in the Faculty of Science into a career in Student Affairs. Find our more about CliftonStrengths and how they can help you develop as a leader.

In this episode, Helen speaks with Nicole Haney, a business advisor with Western Entrepreneurship. As a graduate from Western with a degree in Psychology, she began a career in the corporate world before making the leap into entrepreneurship. Learn about how an interest in health and wellness became a baking business!

Welcome to the Learn to Lead podcast where we talk to leaders about how they lead, what they’ve learned and what they recommend for our journeys towards becoming better leaders. Join us as we talk with Leslie Gloor Duncan, the Associate Director of the Transition, Leadership and Enrichment team. Learn about her 20+ year history and experience at Western and the early experiences that has shaped her as a leader.