Canadian Business and Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University presented 20 of Canada’s top leaders. Each of these successful leaders offer valuable advice from their perspective on the importance of leadership. John Manzoni, President and CEO, Talisman Energy Inc., speaks eloquently with a genuine and often modest account of his success attributing it to opportunity, experience, confidence, values, respect and influence. With knowledge and insight, he clearly relays the impact that technology is having on leadership today.  
  

“Leadership is the ability to articulate vision and influence others to move towards achievement.”

In today’s challenging economy our global recovery will be achieved through the actions, courage, determination and responsibility of great leaders! Here are a few inspiring quotes on Leadership: 

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter F. Drucker

“A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.” ~ James Callaghan

“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams

“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.” ~ Noam Chomsky

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” ~ Ralph Nader

“Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.” ~ Rosabeth Moss Kantor

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” ~ Rosalynn Carter

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill

“South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu walked by a construction site on a temporary sidewalk the width of one person. A white man appeared at the other end, recognized Tutu, and said, “I don’t make way for gorillas.” At which Tutu stepped aside, made a deep sweeping gesture, and said, “Ah, yes, but I do.” ~ Walter Wink 

On Tuesday May 5th 2009, Caldwell Partners International recognized another “Top 40 Under 40″, remarkable, Canadian business leaders, marking this as the 14th annual event. These men and women truly represent the essence of leadership. The chosen nominees were selected by an independent advisory board, comprised of 26 leaders from across Canada based on five criteria: vision and leadership; innovation and achievement; impact; growth and development strategy; and community involvement and contribution. 

Douglas Caldwell, chairman of Caldwell Partners International Inc. and founder of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 says, “These people are amazingly innovative and creative and concientious and haven’t been caught up in this meltdown.”

The award recipents are: Josh Blair, Brian Chafe, Michael Cole, Michael Copeland, John Corley, Dr. Fiona Costello, Dr. Sam Daniel, Dr. Andrew Demchuk, Caley Denton, Mark Derbyshire, Jacques L. Drouin, Jerome Dwight, Wade R. Felesky, Shane C. Fildes, Shaun Francis, Scott Gilmore, Elissa Golberg, Sriram H.Iyer, Ray Jayawardhana, Mitch Joel, Dr. Shana Kelley, Michel Kelly-Gagnon, Jeff Kinnaird, Steven Koles, Dr. Julie Lessard, Cam Marshall, Ryan Marshall, Jessica McDonald, Prashant Shanker Pathak, Pascal Pilon, Cameron Piron, Jason Potter, Marlo Raynolds, Dani Reiss, Dr. Michael Taylor, Scott Thomson, Dr. Sam Michael Wiseman, Jennifer Wong, Sarah Young  and Barbara Zvan.

Douglas Caldwell says, “These are young people with optimism, energy and the temerity to say, ‘We can make this work’.”  He goes on to say, “We should be very confident in the future based on these people who are already leading in many sectors.” 

In addition to The Caldwell Partners International, sponsors of this event included, The Globe and Mail, National Bank, Kingbridge Conference Centre and Institute, Deloitte and Air Canada.