Dr. Carolyn Bennett M.PUniversity of TorontoFaculty of Medicine

LEADERSHIPPassion & Principles

Leadership

Vision

Values

Risk taking

Nellie McClung

“ Never retreat, never apologize,

get the thing done and

let them howl ”

My mother

Florist, Artist Not a manager…..my dad did that ! 2 things

Work hard Value your friends

Prior learning !!

My mother …grandmother Camp .. Patient as Partner … Feminist Theory…

Inclusive decision making Parenting

the toughest job we’ve ever done Complexity Theory and Politics

for every complex problem, there is a simple solution that’s WRONG !!

Role as M.P.

Camp

Fairness ‘natural’ leadership evident

Good and Bad !!! Motivation ??? Expected more of me than I expected of

myself… Friendship…

Loyalty vs principles…..

Parenting

The toughest job we’ve ever done Barbara Colorosa

Consequences “convince me” Have a plan !!

Empowered patients

Effective advocates

Engaged citizens

Non Quo Sed Quo Modo ….

“Not what we do, but how”

Patient as Partner Social Determinants of Health

Poverty, Violence, Environment, Shelter, Equity, Education

Doctor Multidisciplinary Hospital Community

Patient as Partner

Asking people what’s wrong and listening… what do they think it is ?

Patient knows their body best As a professional –

know what you know, what you don’t know, who & when to ask for help

Comment on the ‘affect’ Evidence-based

Sir William Osler

“it is a safe rule…. That the best teaching is that taught by the patient himself”

Aequanamitas

Feminist Theory Ursula Franklin

Inclusive decision-making

Horizontal structures Harvesting solutions from the trenches Good ideas can come from anywhere Attitude ….

Good governance Fair Transparent Takes People Seriously

“Paternalism has been a total failure” Nellie Cornoyea, ‘Speaking Together’ 1975

First Woman Premier, NWT

Sir Michael MarmotChair, WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health

“The worst thing for a physician is to help someone get well and then send them straight back into the situation that made them sick in the first place”

“Politics in Canada has always been the art of making the necessary possible.”

Peter C. Newman

Deciding what ‘s necessary is political

“Good public policy is developed when the policy-makers can keep in their mind’s eye the people affected.”

Jane Jacobs

Players

CanadiansPatientAdvocateCitizen

Government Professionals

Making a Difference

NGO’s Professional Organizations Media Electoral Politics

Is Political Will … another word for leadership ???

Knowing what’s best and just doing it ?or

Listening and responding…..or

Values based, evidence based strategy, education and effectiveness

“Power is not real.

It is an illusion maintained by the belief of the powerless that others hold it.”

Elizabeth May

Leader, Green Party

1. Stop talking like victims 2. Stop assuming we all agree 3. Stop underestimating our strength.”

Michael Ignatieff

“Three mistakes:

“Feel our strength.

We can’t go back to some nostalgic paradise in the past.”

Michael Ignatieff

“Underestimating our power. Well- meaning fatalism. What can we do?”

Michael Ignatieff

Leadership vs. Management

Education, cheerleading, persuasion, championing,inspiration

vs.

Control, command, supervision, intimidation

Lyndon Johnson

“No amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit”

Indira Ghandi

“There are 2 groups of people : those that do the work and those who take the credit…… I have always preferred to be in the former group because there is less competition”

LEADER

LEADER

Best practices… wise and wonderful

Wisdom … having made all the mistakes but learned from them…

A Complex Adaptive System !!

Complex Solutions ……

For every complex human problem, there is a neat simple solution. It is just that it`s wrong !

H.L.Mencken

We must fiercely defend the need for complex solutions for complex problems…..

Progressive movements needs much simple language.

Complexity Theory

Simple… following a recipe

Complicated…putting a rocket on the moon

Complex…. Raising a child

Species at Risk

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Charles Darwin

Motivation and Incentives

The folly of rewarding

“A” while hoping for

“B”

Activists …. 2 kinds

THOSE ACTIVELY WORKING FOR CHANGE

THOSE ACTIVELY WORKING TO PRESERVE THE STATUS QUO

Perfectionists

The enemy is ourselves: We can’t let the desire for perfect get in the way of good.

Le mieux est l’enemie du bien.

Voltaire

Mentoring

2 way Friends in all generations

Ursula Doris Monique, Judy Lyn McLeod Mary Eberts, Marilou …my age Siobhan Coady, Kirsty Duncan Briony Penn Tricia, Sinead, Vanessa Webb, Chi, Moneen Nasmith

Attitude 2+2=5

Knowledgeable Stakeholders

+ Committed Politicians

=Better Public Policy

ABSENT REAL LEADERSHIP,

POLITICAL WILL MAGICALLY ARRIVES

WITH INCREASED CIVIC LITERACY AND EFFICACY.

“A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman thinks of the next generation”

James Freeman Clarke

Sarah Berndhardt

Life begets life.

Energy begets energy.

It is only through spending one’s life that one gets rich.

Barbara Rogers

“Physical and mental energy come from feeling in control of your life, having real choices and being involved with others to find ways of organizing for a change for the better.”