Black History Month keynote: Black Legacies in Canada and the Academy

Join Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, Vice-President, People, Equity and Inclusion at Simon Fraser University, Feb. 18 from 11 a.m. to noon for Royal Roads University's Black History Month keynote event. 

Hosted by Royal Roads University President Philip Steenkamp, Dr. Gilpin-Jackson, a multi-award-winning scholar-practitioner, will speak on Black Legacies in Canada and the Academy, followed by a moderated question-and-answer period.

This free, public event will be recorded.

We gratefully acknowledge Royal Roads University’s Office of Human Rights and Accessibility, led by Alejandro Campos-Garcia, for organizing this event.

Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson 

Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson (she/her/hers) is a multi-award winning scholar-practitioner in human & organization development and leadership with research awards and professional recognitions in Canada, UK and the United States including in Canada, the Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award in 2018, the 2021 runner-up Woman of the Year: Equity and Inclusion Champion by BCBusiness magazine and the 2022 Top 100 Black Women to Watch.  

She is an executive leader, consultant and educator in academia and across the private, public and nonprofit sectors. In addition to being Founder and Principal at SLD consulting, she has served in executive leadership roles within the British Columbia Public Sector as chief people officer of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, executive director of organizational development for Fraser Health and regional lead of organization development for Vancouver Coastal Health and is Simon Fraser University’s first Vice-President, People, Equity and Inclusion.  

Dr. Gilpin-Jackson is an associate faculty member and a two-time Beedie School of Business graduate with a Bachelor in Management/Organization Studies and an MBA in Leadership and Organization Change. She also holds a Master of Arts in Human Development and a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University where she is a post-doctoral Institute for Social Innovation Fellow.  

The author of several books, book chapters and journal articles, Gilpin-Jackson is a well-known presenter on equity, organization development and systems change, leadership and Black identity. Her publications include Transformation After Trauma, The Power of Resonance, co-editor for the 2022 Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation, the We Will Lead Africa book series and short story collections about global African experiences: Identities, Ancestries, Destinies. She is past Chair of the Organization Development Network. When asked about her work in the world, Gilpin-Jackson describes it as “developing our human capacity to be, think and do things differently and better.” If you ask what she is best known for, she will tell you, her wicked laugh!