Françoise Morissette
A bilingual human resource consultant, Françoise Morissette is a major contributor to the field of organization development in Canada. She has been a faculty member at the Industrial Relations Centre (IRC) of Queen’s University since 1992 and has played a key role in developing the new certificates in organizational development. In 2006, she was made a Fellow of the IRC.
Françoise has worked in the private, public, and para-public sectors across North America and in Europe, namely in Finland, Sweden, the UK, and France.
Her field of expertise is leadership development, and since 2004 she has conducted, with colleague Amal Henein, the largest research in Canada in leadership development. The results form the basis of their book, Made in Canada Leadership (John Wiley and Sons, 2007). To learn more about this initiative, go to: www.leadership-canada.com.
Françoise holds an undergraduate degree in human sciences from the University of Ottawa and a graduate degree (adult education) from l'Université de Montréal. She is also certified as a professional coach by the International Coach Federation.
Besides teaching on a number of Queen's IRC programs - including Organization Development Foundations and Leadership Development - Françoise is part of the core faculty at the Adler School of Professional Coaching. She is associated with the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Guelph and a guest faculty member at Université de Sherbrooke. She is also a popular speaker, and has made presentations to a wide variety of associations.
Her expert analysis on a customer service case study and a Q & A in which she discusses leadership development are both available for download from IRC's Knowledge Centre. |