The Global Leadership Program Celebrates Eve’s Global Leadership Award Recipients
Eve's Global Leadership Award Recipients
The Global Leadership program, in the School of Leadership, is pleased to celebrate with graduates at Royal Roads University with our wider community – Convocation June 6, 2025!
It was a day we shared in joy, tears, and excitement with graduates in Global Leadership. They have much to celebrate. Their journey is meaningful not only for graduate level intensive learning that takes a lot of courage, fortitude, deep breaths, and sacrifice - also among loved ones who journey alongside. It is meaningful also because the learning and capacities are direly needed in an increasingly polarized world.
Each student did coursework or worked on projects that prepare them to navigate and lead through key global issues. These include conflict in and between communities, community dynamics contextualized by shifting or erupting geo-political situations, a variety of goals related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, reconciliation efforts, or planetary health emergencies or needs. The goal is to contribute to an issue in context to strengthen and enhance global leadership.
Students are free to determine what that might look like with guidance from faculty and supervisors. They applied what the program embraces as a head, heart, and hands approach to ensure theory is moved to practice. Often, the principle of ‘slow is fast’ guides the application. That is, to see ripple effects and systems changes through systems thinking, sensing before moving forward, and moving and uplifting with deep care and bold and courageous steps. All the while, they are honouring the multiple individuals and parts of the system with which to collaborate.
The university presents Eve's Global Leadership Learner Award that has been established to recognize a Master of Arts in Global Leadership student who is nominated by fellow students for making outstanding contributions to the learning journey of fellow classmates during their time at Royal Roads University. For 2025, we are honoured to share the student who was nominated and won is Amrita Verma.
Graduates also nominated our second Eve’s Leadership Teaching Award to MAGL faculty Dr. Guy Nasmyth. This award celebrates a student nominated faculty who has made significant contributions to the learning experiences of Global Leadership students, deepening the learning of global leadership competencies. Eve was a student in the first cohort of the Master of Arts in Leadership and Training program, established at Royal Roads in 1996. This program, and the people involved in all aspects of it, informed and inspired the trajectory of her life.
Our 2025 graduates toss their hats up in celebration and we hold our hands up high for our graduates’ hard work, care, trust, resiliency, adaptability, willingness to take risks, and for all they have ahead to do. May your road ahead be blessed with abundant opportunities that we know you are ready for!